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- 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

BCFSC Feeding the chipper, Lauren de Terra

Butte County Firesafe Council

June 10, 2022

Nestled on a quiet street in Paradise, California, the Butte County Firesafe Council (BCFSC) is a community-based nonprofit organization which focuses on wildfire safety through a variety of outreach programs on wildfire hazard education, wildfire mitigation, and wildfire recovery.

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Brandon DeGroot,6, examines the bug he just collected outside McCormack Hall, Solano County Fairgrounds. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

An Interview with a Budding Scientist

June 9, 2022

By Kathy Keatley Garvey

Teach 'em young, they say. Encourage them to learn about insects, spiders and other critters at a young age. When you first meet Brandon DeGroot, 6, of Vallejo, he'll tell you "I love spiders and snakes" and he'll flash a big smile.

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A large tree trunk is encircled by hose.

Save trees first: Tips to keep them alive during drought

June 9, 2022

By Pamela S Kan-Rice

Trees essential to lowering temperatures, cooling heat islands' Water restrictions prompted by the drought are driving Californians to prioritize how they will use their limited water.

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Nursery tech harvesting budwood from mother citrus trees

Food Blog: Article

You, too, can grow California’s oldest living orange variety

June 9, 2022

By Michael Hsu

The 1000th tree okayed for growing by California's Citrus Clonal Protection Program happens to be the oldest living orange variety in the state. The program, housed at UC Riverside, is the first of its kind in the world.

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Figure 1. (A) Diagram of the EWC machine from Zasso.com. (01) The tractor engine is the power source of the EWC machine. (02) The PTO shaft transmits mechanical power from the tractor engine to the transformer/generator. (03) A transformer generates high voltage current. (04 and 05) Metal strips on the front-mounted applicator applies electric current to the target plants.

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

First impressions at UC Davis of an electrical weed control system for orchard crops

June 9, 2022

By Brad Hanson

Tong Zhen is a Ph.D. student in the Hanson Lab at UC Davis. Non-chemical weed control usually is based on physical methods (e.g. tillage or mowing) or thermal methods such as propane flaming or steam.

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Topics in Subtropics: Article

Cowpeas Can Make Money in Spanish Mandarins

June 9, 2022

By Ben A Faber

If you can sell your cowpeas, fava beans and barley, you can make money in Spain and apparently not use any more water than if just growing the mandarins. And coastal growers should look at the fresh market.

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Listen To "Gardening Projects for Kids" on In The Garden Radio

June 8, 2022

Each child has their own bucket and everything they need to grow something. And then eventually (and hopefully) EAT IT! How about making SEED BOMBS? Bean tepees? This show has so much detail, if you close your eyes, it could be like TV! Learn more and listen to "In The Garden" radio show podcasts.

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Nutrition Policy Institute News: Article

NPI researchers present at ASN’s Nutrition Live Online 2022 on improvements to WIC to support participant food security and on access to school meals during COVID-19

June 8, 2022

By Danielle Lee

The American Society for Nutrition's annual conference, Nutrition 2022 Live Online, happens virtually June 14-16, 2022.

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UC Davis doctoral candidate and arachnologist Lacie Newton delivering her exit seminar. She will be participating in the American Arachnological Society conference at UC Davis. An open house at the Bohart Museum on June 25 will kick off the conference.

From Students to University Professionals: A Gathering of Arachnologists at UC Davis

June 8, 2022

By Kathy Keatley Garvey

One of the scores of arachnologists you'll see at the "Eight-Legged Encounters" open house on Saturday, June 25 at the Bohart Museum of Entomology will be doctoral candidate Lacie Newton, an amazing young UC Davis scientist who just delivered her exit seminar on "Evolution and Speciation in the Trap...

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Professor Eileen Hebets of the School of Biological Sciences, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, is co-hosting the open house as part of a U.S. National Science Foundation grant, “Eight-Legged Encounters” that she developed as an outreach project to connect arachnologists with communities, especially youth.

Entomology & Nematology News: Article

'Eight-Legged Encounters' Open House to Kick Off Arachnologists' Meeting on Campus

June 8, 2022

By Kathy Keatley Garvey

A special open house, Eight-Legged Encounters, set from 1 to 4 p.m., Saturday, June 25 at the Bohart Museum of Entomology will officially kick off the 2022 American Arachnological Society's meeting at UC Davis. The free, public open house.

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