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You can subscribe to this  blog with multiple entries per week reflecting what's happening with subtropical crops and upcoming educational events.  Just click on the "Subscribe" button just to the right of this paragraph.  There's also our seasonal quarterly Topics in Subtropics newsletter found at our Ventura, Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo, Riverside, San Diego, Tulare and Kern Counties Cooperative Extension websites.
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Fire Ants Come to CA Avocado

March 6, 2023
Red imported fire ant (RIFA), Solenopsis invicta, has been reported as a pest in Florida where the fire ants girdle young citrus trees (Diepenbrock) https://crec.ifas.ufl.edu/media/crecifasufledu/extension/extension-publications/2021/2021_jan_fireant.
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Reading and fulfilling nutritional needs of avocado trees

March 1, 2023
By Ben A Faber
California Avocado Growers Seminars Series 2023 Scheduled Topics You missed this in-person meeting, but see it here From: February 15 (10 AM - 12 PM) In-Person and Zoom Get Down - Fertilizers How to apply them and how to choose them. Dr.
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Know how to read fertilizer tree needs

March 1, 2023
By Ben A Faber
From: February 15 (10 AM - 12 PM) In-Person and Zoom How to apply them and how to choose them. Dr. Danny Klittich - Director of Agronomy at Mission Produce How to choose and what to look out for with different fertilizer application methods (venturi, water-powered, batch tank, electric powered, etc.
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Passion Fruit Conference Proceedings and Video

February 23, 2023
By Ben A Faber
We are pleased to deliver these proceedings of the passion fruit conference that was held in Homestead, Florida on June 14 and 15, 2022. It was a culmination of a lot of hard work by many people, most of them listed in the previous page.
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