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Registration Now Open!The 2025 International Microirrigation School For Crop Production will be offered for the first time in California on October 13-17, 2025. It will involve three days of instruction at the University of California at Davis, and two days of field trips in the San Joaquin Valley and…

7:30 – 8:00       Coffee etc.8:00 – 8:15       Welcome – Ashraf El-KereamyWelcome and introduction – Leonel Jimenez8:15 – 8:45       Ray Yokomi (pending approval from ARS) - update on the citrus and non-citrus host…

Citrus Mealybug Field Day at Lindcove Sign up clicking on this link or email sangautam@ucanr.edu Instructors: Dr. Sandipa Gautam and David Haviland Course Objective: To teach PCAs about citrus mealybug, an emerging concern for citrus growers. The field day will focus on lectures on pest…

A recent article covers pollination, especially of flowers in dark places.  Dark, meaning at night, and in places like forests where bees might not go, because it's too dark.  But beetles and bats, and moths and slugs might thrive in these environments. Even cockroaches have been shown to be…

The California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA) declared a citrus quarantine expansion in San Diego County’s Valley Center on March 26. The expansion occurred after detection of HLB disease in two citrus trees in residential neighborhoods in the Valley Center area during regular inspections.  …