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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

Online training courses and webinars available from UC Statewide Integrated Pest Management Program

April 12, 2020

By Cheryl A Reynolds

This spring if you are looking for options to obtain your continuing education units (CEUs) and not sure where to get them, why not check out the online options that the UC Statewide IPM Program (UC IPM) has to offer.

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JOB ANNOUNCEMENT :: Agronomy and Weed Management Advisor

April 12, 2020

By Clifford S Stoddard

JOB ANNOUNCEMENT (AP 20-06) County Location: Merced County Date Posted: April 7, 2020 Closing Date: May 31, 2020 Location Headquarters: Merced, California For more information, visit https://ucanr.

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Stanislaus County: Article

The Scoop on Fruits and Nuts - April 2020 - Issue 25.2

April 11, 2020

By Sandi L Gudino

In this issue:Delayed Irrigation in WalnutsCompost may not improve orchard performanceManaging true bugs in almonds

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A hover fly that's a bumble bee mimic: this is Volucella bombylans complex. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Bug Squad: Article

This Hover Fly Engages in Identity Theft

April 10, 2020

By Kathy Keatley Garvey

The wonderful world of insects... Have you ever seen a syrphid, aka hover fly or flower fly, that resembles a bumble bee? Volucella bombylans is a fascinating fly that engages in identify theft. Of a bumble bee. It's a "wanna bee.

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Article

Staff performance appraisals postponed

April 10, 2020

By Pamela S Kan-Rice

On April 8, UC President Napolitano announced that the FY 2019-20 systemwide annual performance-appraisal program for policy-covered staff will be suspended until fall 2020, in consideration of the impact of the COVID-19 situation.

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Mortgage Lifter Tomato. (photo: Royce Rhoads)

Ode to a Tomato

April 10, 2020

By Anne E Schellman

It would be safe to say that tomatoes are the most popular home-grown vegetable. Any garden department or nursery this time of the year has a huge array of varieties. You can become positively confused with numerous names, sizes, and descriptions.

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Mariposa County: Article

April 2020

April 10, 2020

We're back! Here is the new issue of the 4-H Spirit full of information on upcoming 4-H events.

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Whitney Brim-DeForest, UC Cooperative Extension Rice Advisor

UCCE Rice Advisor on Out of the Blank podcast

April 10, 2020

By Gale Perez

Here's Whitney Brim-DeForest, UC Cooperative Extension Rice Advisor, on the Out of the Blank podcast: Click here >> PODCAST From the Out of the Blank channel...

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Under the Solano Sun: Article

Why Are My Vegetables Turning Purple?

April 10, 2020

I squinted at the Romanesco head again. Yep, still purple. But the neighboring plant was the correct shade of vibrant green. What was going on? Were my plants diseased? Or going through some strange second flowering? It was none of the above.

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