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Pest Notes
- Olive Knot
- Black Scale
UC Pest Management Guidelines (UC Statewide IPM Project Web Site)
UC Cooperative Extension Cost and Return Studies
- Almonds
  Double Line Drip Irrigation. Southern San Joaquin Valley. 2016 PDF
- Almonds
  Flood Irrigated. San Joaquin Valley North. 2011. PDF
- Almonds
  Micro-sprinkler. San Joaquin Valley North. 2016. PDF
- Olive Oil
  Super High Density. San Joaquin Valley 2007. PDF
- Olives - San Joaquin Valley. 2005 PDF
- Pecans - Sacramento/San Joaquin Valley - 2005. PDF
- Pistachios
  Low Volume Irrigation - San Joaquin Valley South. 2015. PDF
- Walnuts
  Late Leafing - Lateral Bearing. San Joaquin Valley North. 2017. PDF
- Walnuts
  Micro-Sprinkler Irrigation - San Joaquin Valley North. 2007 PDF

Topics in Subtropics: Article

Movento 24C renewed for Citrus in CA

June 7, 2024

By Ben A Faber

Movento (spirotetramet) has been renewed for use on citrus Asian citrus psyllid in California. It's a foliar spray that is systemic especially moving to new tissue where ACP feeds. It also controls some other pests, such as thrips and leafminer.

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Cork sorted into piles in Alentejo, Portugal cork factory. J.C. Lawrence

Local Trees: The Cork Oak

June 7, 2024

Why are wine bottles tall and narrow? That distinctive shape contributes to the happy marriage between cork and a bottle made tall enough to lie on its side so the wine can breathe through the cork as it matures.

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Nutrition Policy Institute News: Article

NPI partners to develop and evaluate a marketing campaign to increase school meal participation

June 6, 2024

By Danielle Lee, Christina E Hecht

Increasing participation in school meal programs can improve dietary quality and reduce nutrition insecurity. School food service directors have indicated an urgent need for marketing materials encouraging school meal participation.

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UC Master Gardener Program Statewide Blog: Article

UC Master Gardeners part of effort to eradicate invasive tree-of-heaven

June 6, 2024

By Barbra Braaten

UC Master Gardeners across the state are on a scouting mission for the California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA), combing their communities and the local countryside to find the undesirable but common tree-of-heaven.

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UC Weed Science (weed control, management, ecology, and minutia): Article

Nutrient Strategies to Combat Branched Broomrape

June 6, 2024

Broomrapes (Orobanche and Phelipanche spp.) are obligate plant parasites with a broad range of agricultural crop hosts. In non-parasitic plant species, seeds generally initiate germination when exposed to favorable conditions of temperature, humidity, oxygen, and, occasionally, light.

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UC Cooperative Extension Imperial County: Article

June 2024

June 6, 2024

UPDATES ON FSMA FINAL RULE ON PRE-HARVEST AGRICULTURAL WATER VIRUSES IN SUGAR BEETS 2024 CALIF. DATE PALM WORKSHOP AGRONOMIC CROPS & IRRIGATION WATER MANAGEMENT WORKSHOP GOT LIVESTOCK PEST I.V.

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Tammah Watts posa con su libro Keep Looking Up: A Guide to the Powerful Healing of Birdwatching (Sigue mirando hacia arriba: una guía para la poderosa sanación con la observación de aves). Todas las fotografías por Saoimanu Sope.

Blog Verde: Article

Nuevos naturalistas de UC California inspiran a cuidar de la naturaleza en el condado de San Diego

June 6, 2024

By Diana Cervantes

Cerca de 200 residentes han sido capacitados en los ltimos siete aos como parte del programa Administradores del Medio Ambiente de UC Durante uno de sus das ms oscuros, Tammah Watts estaba parada frente al sink de su cocina para llenar una jarra con agua.

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Metal pipe structure is next to a farm field

Report: Wastewater recycling essential to resilient water future for LA region

June 6, 2024

By Pamela S Kan-Rice

Wastewater recycling in Los Angeles is the focus of a new report released by the UCLA Luskin Center for Innovation and the UC Agriculture and Natural Resources.

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UCCE Siskiyou: Article

June 2024

June 6, 2024

Upcoming Events YQCA State Field Day Results State Leadership Conference New!! 4-H Achievement Record Books and Forms Shasta Valley Livestock Schooling Days...

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Under the Solano Sun: Article

Chasing Springtime

June 6, 2024

Driving North on I-5 in mid-May is akin to chasing springtime. Especially when one begins in Solano County, where most of the beautiful spring blooms have already been spent or wind-blown from the trees--making way for their bright green spring leaves.

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