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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

Napa Master Gardener Column: Article

Clean up Your Worm Beds

October 4, 2019

by Penny Pawl, U.C. Master Gardener of Napa County Over the years, many people have attended compost workshops conducted by the City and County of Napa and the Napa County Master Gardeners.

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ANR Adventures: Article

Finding inspiration throughout UC ANR

October 3, 2019

By Wendy Powers

A couple of weeks back, I had a chance to see the Hispanic Heritage Month video that featured DREC director, Jairo Diaz. I meant to find other videos, but I lost track of the thought. Today I had a chance to see those videos featuring Fe Moncloa, Maria de la Fuente, and Aileen Carrasco Trujillo.

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UC Cooperative Extension Imperial County: Article

UPDATED Oct - Nov 2019 4-H Intercom

October 3, 2019

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Close-up of a gravid tsetse fly, Glossina morsitans morsitans. (Photo by Geoffrey Attardo)

Bug Squad: Article

Geoffrey Attardo: Exploring Tsetse Fly Reproduction

October 3, 2019

By Kathy Keatley Garvey

Consider the tsetse fly. The blood-sucking insect, which transmits the parasite that causes human and animal trypanosomiasis, has wreaked havoc in African countries.

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Listen Up To “This Month In the Garden – October 2019” On In The Garden Radio

October 3, 2019

Continue planting your winter vegetable garden. You'll hear about most everything that will help you maintain your garden this month. Oooh . . . Pumpkins! Would you like to get updates from the Orange County Master Gardeners? Hear about what we are doing in the community Receive the "Garden Beet".

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Sacramento Valley Field Crops: Article

Research Update: Efficacy of mechanical and chemical preseason control of herbicide-resistant Italian ryegrass

October 3, 2019

Summary Note Mechanical cultivation is a useful tool in controlling herbicide-resistant Italian ryegrass individuals in a rainfed wheat system but is only about half as effective as Axial in reducing overall pressure from Italian ryegrass (expressed as a percentage of total groundcover).

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Sacramento Valley Field Crops: Article

2018-2019 Small Grains Variety Testing Results Now Available through UCANR Small Grains Website

October 3, 2019

Reposting from UC Small Grains Blog (https://ucanr.edu/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=31431) ... Results for the 2018-2019 fall planted UC Statewide Small Grain Variety Trials are now available at: http://smallgrains.ucanr.

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

Steve Fennimore Receives Fulbright Scholar Award to Work in Uruguay on Weed Management in Organic Vegetable Production

October 3, 2019

By Gale Perez

The U.S. Department of State and the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board are pleased to announce that Steven Fennimore of the University of California, Davis, has received a Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program award to work in Uruguay in agriculture.

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2019 wheat and triticale variety trial on Staten Island.

SJC and Delta Field Crops: Article

2018-19 Small Grains Variety Trial Results

October 3, 2019

By Mark E Lundy, Michelle M Leinfelder-Miles

Results from the statewide UC small grains variety testing program are now available for the 2018-19 season. The Delta trial location was on Staten Island on a Valdez silt loam soil.

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Topics in Subtropics: Article

Florida Orange Production UP!!!

October 3, 2019

By Ben A Faber

The USDA has summarized the US citrus crop for 2018-19 and it is up for both California and Florida, with CA accounting for 51% of US production! But the Florida orange crop is up from last year.

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