- Author: Ben Faber
UC Riverside Citrus Field Day for growers and industry members
Thursday, March 7, 2024
Outdoor field meeting
7:15 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. (lunch included)
1060 Martin Luther King Blvd., Riverside, CA
7:15 Registration and Parking
7:45 Welcome, Tracy Kahn and Peggy Mauk, Dept Botany and Plant Sciences, UC Riverside
8:00 Updates on changes in pesticide regulations, update on Oriental Fruit fly quarantine, ACP/HLB Regulations – Delia Cioc, Ag Commissioner and Erik Downs, Deputy Ag Commissioner, Riverside County
Current invasive fruit fly quarantines in California – Nawal Sharma (CDFA) and Francisco Quintana (USDA)
Understanding Oriental Fruit Fly biology, Asian Citrus Psyllid control programs – Dr. Bodil Cass, UC Riverside
Phytosanitary treatment development for invasive species – Dr. Spencer Walse, USDA
Updates on Citrus Yellow Vein Clearing Virus in California and its proposed quarantine regulations – Anmol Joshi, Citrus Pest and Disease Prevention Division CDFA
Citrus Yellow Vein Associated Virus VS Citrus Yellow Vein Clearing Virus: FRIEND VS FOE – Dr. Georgios Vidalakis, UC Riverside
BREAK
Controlling Asian Citrus Psyllids using systemic insecticides – Dr. Frank Byrne, UC Riverside
Anthracnose of citrus Understanding the pathogen and its control – Dr. Peggy Mauk, UC Riverside
Spatial culturomics of the citrus microbiome to derive bioinoculants from functional microbiome studies – Dr. Caroline Roper & Christopher Drozd
Demonstration of autonomous systems for agriculture – Dr. Konstantinos Karydis, UC Riverside
Long-term solutions for citrus huanglongbing – Dr. Chandrika Ramadugu, UC Riverside
UCR Citrus Breeding and Evaluation Program Fruit Display – Toni Siebert Wooldridge, UC Riverside
Vendor demonstrations of autonomous systems
LUNCH
Continuing education PENDING
Link to program: https://capca.com/calendar/capca-socal-ucr-2024-citrus-day/
Direct link to registration: https://events.capca.com/event/21/register
UCR researchers appreciate the ongoing support of the Citrus Research Board
- Author: Ben Faber
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By Shawn Martin, organic grower and CA Avocado Society Board member
It's never clear what winter will deliver to a coastal avocado grove on a steep slope, so the grower must be ready for whatever happens. And the main thing is rainfall. And Frost. And sometimes drought. And be ready for fire. And watch out for phytophthora. Some guidelines follow:
- Author: Ben Faber
POM - Greek for "apples", but more generally "fruit"
ology - the study of
So pomology is the study of fruit trees. And how to describe them becomes important and pictures have been an important way of describing fruit. Worth a thousand words.
In 1886, a US agency set out to record new fruit varieties. The results are wondrous. Watch the story HERE
As agriculture in the United States transformed from domestic and local to industrial and national, in 1886 the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) embarked on an ambitious project. To help fruit cultivators protect and profit from their innovations, the agency hired illustrators to recreate images of newly developed varieties of fruits and nuts, capturing the colours, textures and shapes of each in intricate detail. By the programme's end in 1942, more than 7,500 unique, and often beautiful, images had been produced. In his short film, the Toronto-based filmmaker Sebastian Ko provides lively flipbook tour through the USDA ‘Pomological Watercolor Collection' to explore its history and legacy. In particular, Ko focuses on the contributions of some of the talented female artists who helped bring the collection to life at a time when very few jobs were available to women.
And see the pictures here: https://search.nal.usda.gov/discovery/collectionDiscovery?vid=01NAL_INST:MAIN&collectionId=81279629860007426
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