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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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irrigATING CITRUS

HOW to IRRIGATE in ONE text

March 13, 2024
By Ben A Faber
Microirrigation for Crop Production: Design, Operation, and Management, Second Edition is the latest release in this go-to foundational resource for the basics of engineering and the science of the design and operation of micoirrigation systems.
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Staying Up to Date on Fruit Flies

March 11, 2024
By Ben A Faber
Invasive Fruit Flies California is currently experiencing an unusually high?number?of invasive fruit fly?detections, resulting in quarantines being established across numerous California counties, including Ventura County.
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IRCHLB 2023

International Research Conference on HLB - Riverside

March 8, 2024
By Ben A Faber
International Research Conference on HLB Here in California The International Research Conference on Huanglongbing VII (IRCHLB VII) is just around the corner! The California citrus industry is excited to welcome researchers, regulators, and citrus industry members from around the world to the Golden...
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Praise the Rain, Pass the Fungicide

March 6, 2024
By Ben A Faber
Although, it's probably too late for the fungicide to correct Citrus Brown Rot and Septoria on coastal lemons. In normal rainfall years, a skirt spray of copper is done to prevent rain splash bringing spores of various Phytophthora species in contact with fruit.
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