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Problem: There was a Valencia farmer in Ojai, farming on a rocky loam. More rocky than loam, on a 10 % slope, where he had been spraying the weeds down, the soil had gradually washed away and all he had left was scattered cobbles.

The gold-winning video "Diagnosing Herbicide Injury" includes several interactive features to make it more engaging and entertaining, and to help viewers remember the information.

Confirmation of New Citrus Virus in California The U.S.

We recently had a grower meeting covering the release of five new grape varieties that are resistant to Pierce's Disease https://ucanr.edu/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=53564 PD is a very debilitating disease of European wine grapes, like "dead vines" debilitating. https://ucanr.

The papers and discussion from the recent Passionfruit Conference in Florida is now available. Check it out It covers the gamut of planted acreage, marketing, disease and pest management and its future as a crop, not just in California, but Florida, Hawaii, South Carolina and other states.