- Author: Oleg Daugovish
Growers and pest control advisors look at strawberry plants daily and see problems often. Some problems like salt injury are frequent while others, like frost injury are only seen once in a few years. With over 60 pathological, physiological and nutritional problems it is important not to overlook injury from herbicides. In collaboration with UC strawberry workgroup members we recently launched a bi-lingual web site that displays injuries and disorders from chemical and other causes.
The site is a work in progress as we continue to add images of problems, translation into Spanish and update the content of existing pages with new information. We hope that with improved access to images and descriptions the site can be useful in...
- Author: Gale Perez
- Author: Mark Lundy
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A new year and a new farm advisor in Colusa‐Sutter‐Yuba
Hello, I’m Mark Lundy, a new Agronomy Advisor in Colusa‐Sutter‐Yuba, based out of the Colusa office. With 2014 underway, I wanted to send out a brief note to introduce myself and give a brief sketch of some of the work I’ve initiated since I began in July of 2013.
Where are you from?
I’m from Arizona originally, but I’m starting my 9th year living here in California. For most of that time I’ve lived in or around Davis where I was a graduate student for 6 years and earned an MS in International Agricultural Development and a PhD in Horticulture and Agronomy. Prior to graduate...
- Author: Brad Hanson
Reposted (with permission) from the Strawberries and Caneberries UC ANR blog
Link to original post (October 11, 2013): Clarification on the Use of Chateau (flumioxazin) prior to Strawberry Transplanting written by Oleg Daugovish, Steve Fennimore, and Mark Bolda
Great post Mark!
Brad
A response to the question posed to us...
- Author: Brad Hanson
- Article author: Steve Fennimore
Today is the fourth in a series of posts outlining current University of California weed science research published in the California Weed Science Society (CWSS) Research Update and News (June 2013, Volume 9, #2).
Steve Fennimore (UC Davis, Cooperative Extension Specialist, stationed in Salinas) works mostly in cool season vegetables, strawberries, and other annual cropping systems. Some of the...
- Author: Brad Hanson
- Article author: Kurt Hembree
- Article author: Tom Turini
This is the third in my series of posts outlining current University of California weed science research published in the California Weed Science Society (CWSS) Research Update and News (June 2013, Volume 9, #2).
Kurt Hembree and Tom Turini (both UCCE Farm Advisors in Fresno Co) discuss some issues related to herbicide persistence and crop safety in processing tomato that appears to be related to changing irrigation practices. Historically, tomato crops were sprinkler irrigated after...