Salinas Valley Agriculture

Join us at the upcoming Biologicals in Action Field Day at Reservoir Farms, co-hosted by Reservoir Farms and UCCE Monterey. This event will showcase the latest biological product evaluations underway through UCCE Monterey. Attendees will also have the opportunity to tour Reservoir Farms, an agtech incubator…

I’ve got tough news folks. If you or someone you know recently purchased a grapevine plant at a Costco, please be aware of a detected invasive insect. Glassy-winged Sharpshooter has been identified on grapevine shipments sold at Northern California Costco locations between April 21 and May 19, 2026. Read…

Tolerance of lettuce varieties to Fusarium wilt – 2025Alex Putman, Yu-Chen Wang, and Chris GreerSummaryFusarium wilt of lettuce, caused by Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. lactucae (FOL), is an economically significant disease on the Central Coast of California.  We conducted field trials to evaluate…

Join us for a day focusing on vegetated water treatment. We will begin with a visit to a vegetated ditch site at Huntington Farms in Soledad where we will discuss how the vegetated treatment system was constructed and considerations for implementing these systems on your own land.The site visit will be…

    Lettuce Verticillium wilt, caused by the soilborne fungus Verticillium dahliae, continues to threaten lettuce production in the Salinas Valley. Symptoms of Verticillium wilt include lower leaf yellowing, wilting, and eventual plant collapse, which typically develop near crop maturity (Figure 1)…