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Sewage to Sustenance

March 27, 2024
By Ben A Faber
Jules Bernstein - UC Riverside, Senior Public Information Officer Plant materials that would otherwise become trash may be the key to solving two big problems: diminishing freshwater supplies for farms and diminishing effectiveness of antibiotics.
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Los Fundamentos de la Salud del Suelo

March 22, 2024
By Ben A Faber
La Fundacin para la Investigacin de la Agricultura Orgnica (OFRF por sus siglas en ingls) se complace en anunciar un nuevo curso asncrono en lnea que cubre la importancia de la salud del suelo para la produccin agrcola.
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Who is Hoddle?

March 20, 2024
By Ben A Faber
By Jules Bernstein | Photo by Stan Lim, UCR News https://news.ucr.
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Worms?

March 18, 2024
By Ben A Faber
This is a common expression to describe the larval stage of Lepidoptera. But they are only "worms" in the sense of their Proto Indo-European word origin meaning to "to twist" of "turn", snake or dragon like. Anyway, they aren't earthworms and they don't even taste like earthworms.
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Red Scale Alert

March 14, 2024
California red scale season has started in the SJV Sandipa Gautam - Citrus IPM Advisor Based on traps placed at LREC citrus blocks, California red scale season began with Biofix on March 10.
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