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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

Nutrition Policy Institute News: Article

Study identifies how to help college students access the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program

May 16, 2022

By Danielle Lee

Ensuring college students have access to nutritious and affordable food is critical to support their health and academic success. However, rates of food insecurity amongst college studentson average 43%is three times higher than adults in the US.

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Tulare County Cooperative Extension: Article

May 2022

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Nutrition Policy Institute News: Article

Support the Nutrition Policy Institute Student Fellowship on Giving Day 2022 on May 19

May 16, 2022

By Danielle Lee, Lorrene D Ritchie

Join the Nutrition Policy Institute for 24 hours of giving starting Thursday May 19, 2022, at 12:00 noon.

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A tawny slug on a ripe strawberry. Photo by Jack Kelly Clark

Spill the Beans: Article

More invertebrate pests

May 16, 2022

Melody Kendall There are legions of invertebrate garden pests that can wreak havoc in our gardens. They are the munchers, suckers, borers and slimers. In our area we mostly deal with a dirty dozen of invertebrate garden pests.

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Quadratic pictures of basil foliage taken at 3 DAA in Field A in Modesto, CA

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

Evaluating the potential of Pyridate-containing herbicide in basil: impacts on yield, leaf injury, and weed control

May 15, 2022

By Zheng Wang

From page 26 of the Progressive Crop Consultant (March/April 2022) magazine. Zheng Wang is the UC Cooperative Extension Vegetable Crops and Irrigation Advisor for Stanislaus County. Introduction Basil is one of the most important herb spices for the diets of people in the Central Valley.

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Maureen Page and Charlie Casey Nicholson co-authored the cover story in the American Journal of Botany on "A Meta-Analysis of Single Visit Pollination Effectiveness Comparing Honeybees and other Floral Visitors." (Cover photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Entomology & Nematology News: Article

Maureen Page: Exit Seminar on 'Impacts of Managed Honey Bees on Plant-Pollinator Mutalisms'

May 15, 2022

By Kathy Keatley Garvey

Doctoral candidate Maureen Page of the laboratory of pollination ecologist/professor Neal Williams of the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology, will present her exit seminar on "Impacts of Managed Honey Bees on Plant-Pollinator Mutualisms" at 10 a.m.

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Napa Master Gardener Column: Article

Learning nature’s way of healing our soils

May 14, 2022

Heal the earth by healing the soil? Are we really able to slow global warming by manipulating dirt? Humans have been stripping mother earth of her verdant, life-supporting cloak for a long time, but the damage has shot up to a critical stage in recent years.

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This is Medicago littoralis. Plants in the Medicago family are commonly known as medick or burclover. (Photo by Jean Tosti, photo courtesy of Wikipedia)

Bug Squad: Article

Corlett Wood's Virtual UC Davis Seminar: 'The Conflict Beneath Your Feet'

May 13, 2022

By Kathy Keatley Garvey

When evolutionary biologist Corlett Wood attended her first evolutionary meeting in 2010 in Portland, Ore., she reported that "I had found my people." Today she's an assistant professor at the University of Pennsylvania and has found her calling.

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An illustration from Corlett Wood's UC Davis virtual seminar.

Entomology & Nematology News: Article

Corlett Wood: 'The Conflict Beneath Your Feet'

May 13, 2022

By Kathy Keatley Garvey

Evolutionary biologist Corlett Wolfe Wood, an assistant professor of biology at the University of Pennsylvania, will speak on "The Conflict Beneath Your Feet: Indirect Effects in Plant-Symbiont Interactions" at the Wednesday, May 18th virtual seminar hosted by the UC Davis Department of Entomology a...

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UC Davis nematologist Shahid Siddique presents a seminar on “How Plants Recognize Nematodes: Signals and Signalling” at the Seventh International Congress of Nematology meeting in Antibes Juan-Les-Pins, France.

Entomology & Nematology News: Article

Shahid Siddique and Alison Coomer: Honors at International Congress of Nematology

May 13, 2022

By Kathy Keatley Garvey

Nematologist Shahid Siddique of the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology and his doctoral student Alison Coomer, drew widespread recognition at the Seventh International Congress of Nematology (ICN), held May 1-6 in Antibes Juan-Les-Pins, France.

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