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UC Weed Specialist Travis Bean (photo credit: CaliforniaToday)

Sad news regarding Travis Bean

June 22, 2020
Written by Karl Tanner On May 27, 2020, Travis Bean, UC Cooperative Extension specialist and an incredible, amazing and accomplished man passed away suddenly at the age of 43. Travis was born in Lincoln, NB, on Feb. 11, 1977, and raised in Yuma, AZ.
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How many different cover crops can you count in this photo?

Cover Crop Selector

June 9, 2020
By Ben A Faber
New to cover crops? What alternatives are there and how does one figure out what might work in your special situation? Well, be one of the first to test out a new software program developed by Shulamit Shroder, our Climate Smart Specialist in Kern County.
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Johnsongrass in processing tomatoes

May 25, 2020
In 2019, my colleague Sarah Light (UCCE Agronomy Advisor: Sutter-Yuba and Colusa counties) and myself were in Year 2 of a Healthy Soils Demonstration Project in Sutter County, CA. Our field site was planted to tomatoes and was in it's first year of certified organic production.
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INSV infected romaine lettuce with necrosis on older leaves (photo credit: Daniel Hasegawa).

Role of weed hosts in the spread of INSV

May 11, 2020
By Richard F Smith
Richard Smith is the Vegetable Crops and Weed Science Farm Advisor in Monterey County, California. Impatiens Necrotic Spot Virus (INSV) in the Salinas Valley is a tospovirus that is spread primarily by western flower thrips (Frankliniella occidentalis).
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