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Under the Solano Sun: Article

Eye, Eye, Eye What Do We See?

June 7, 2021
Red Tail Hawks Buteo jamaicensis We have the pleasure of having red tail hawks near our house. Every year around November the Red Tail hawks show up for a visit. Sometimes they stay through the winter but most years they don't.
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Kern County: Article

Kern UCCE/DWR Weekly Crop Water Use Report 06-07-2021

June 7, 2021
Please see below link to access "How To Use Weekly Crop Water Use (ET) Reports to Assist Farm Water Management" How To Use Weekly Crop Water Use Report Please see below link to access "Weekly ET Report 05-31-2021" ET Report 06-07-2021 Please see disclaimer link below: University of California Divisi...
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grape bunch
Topics in Subtropics: Article

The Perfect Flower

June 7, 2021
By Ben A Faber
Communications Director Cornell University Wines and table grapes exist thanks to a genetic exchange so rare that it's only happened twice in nature in the last 6 million years. And since the domestication of the grapevine 8,000 years ago, breeding has continued to be a gamble.
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UC IPM video
Spill the Beans: Article

Healing the Earth – Use Compost

June 7, 2021
Use compost, not chemicals This is the second post in this series following concepts and information from UC Master Gardeners of Napa County presentation, Soil is the Solution, healing the earth one yard at a time, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqA8DqBtRuo .
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Table 2. Percent control compared to untreated control by biomass at 14 Days After Treatment of 2 known susceptible late watergrass populations (Susceptible 1 and Susceptible 2), and 10 unknown watergrass populations (identified by county and sample number).
UC Weed Science (weed control, management, ecology, and minutia): Article

Weeds to Watch Out for in Rice in 2021: Watergrass and Weedy Rice (with some management tips)

June 6, 2021
By Whitney B Brim-Deforest
Watergrass We are having more and more difficulties controlling watergrass over the past 20 or so years. We know that as of the early 2000s, we had found multiple-herbicide resistant late watergrass (also known as mimic), as well as multiple-herbicide resistant barnyardgrass.
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Adult insect with pinkish wings that have black patterning and dots resting on bark.
Pests in the Urban Landscape: Article

Invasive Species Action Week 2021

June 6, 2021
California Invasive Species Action Week began Saturday, June 5 and runs through Sunday, June 13, 2021. Increasing public awareness of invasive species and their impacts helps protect our natural resources, waterways, native species, agriculture, and health.
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