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A crab spider has just ambushed a honey bee on a bluebeard blossom. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Bug Squad: Article

The Crab Spider and the Bee

August 5, 2019
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
It was a good day for a crab spider. It was NOT a good day for a honey bee. It's early evening and here's this bee foraging on a bluebeard plant, Caryopteris x clandonensis, totally unaware of the ambush predator lying in wait. The predator and the prey: Misumena vatia and Apis mellifera.
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Photo 1. Seeded lettuce field being germinated with buried drip.
Salinas Valley Agriculture: Article

Fate of surface applied nitrogen in season-long drip irrigated fields

August 5, 2019
By Michael D Cahn
During the past two years acreage of season-long drip in lettuce has increased rapidly in the Salinas and adjacent valleys. Using drip for the entire crop cycle allows growers to germinate seeded crops with buried tape (Photo 1), and eliminates labor needed for installing and removing sprinklers.
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UC restricts engagements with Huawei

August 5, 2019
By Pamela S Kan-Rice
Given the serious federal government actions against Huawei and their affiliates which have legal implications for UC researchers as well as reputational risks for the University, the University of California (UC) provided guidance.
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Napa Master Gardener Column: Article

Plant Trees!

August 5, 2019
By Susanne von Rosenberg, UC Master Gardener of Napa County Adding one or more trees to your garden can make a very big difference. Trees are amazing. They can provide shade and fruit, save energy, support wildlife and help reduce global warming.
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DBM tendencies jul19
Salinas Valley Agriculture: Article

Update on diamondback moth area-wide monitoring program

August 5, 2019
Last year, this pest was present in large numbers during August and September. The idea is to have additional data from the pheromone traps to inform the IPM decision making process. Below is a table showing the number of moths per day and per trap since February. Table 1.
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CASI’s Monte Bottens, President of ANP in Moline, IL, and farmer with his dad, Bob Bottens, at Bottens Family Farm in Sherrard, IL hosting a group of California Ag Solutions visitors and Jeff Mitchell on July 31, 2019
Conservation Agriculture: Article

CASI's Bottens hosts CA visitors at his farm in Sherrard, IL July 31, 2019!

August 5, 2019
By Jeffrey P Mitchell
July 31, 2019 A group of about six members of California Ag Solutions along with CASI's Jeff Mitchell were treated to a simply fantastic and very eye-opening tour of the Bottens Family Farm on July 31st near the small northwestern IL town of Sherrard, IL by long-time Workgroup member, Monte Bottens.
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CASI’s Jeff Mitchell delivering presentation on “Changing the production landscape with smarter strip-till practices” at the 2019 National Strip-till Farmer conference in Peoria, IL, August 1st and 2nd 2019
Conservation Agriculture: Article

Cultural shift: Putting strip-till to work on the West Coast

August 5, 2019
By Jeffrey P Mitchell
August 2, 2019 The 6th Annual National Strip-tillage Conference took place last week August 1st and 2nd in Peoria, IL and attracted a crowd of over 300 farmers who were mostly from the IL, IA, WI, MN, and OH region.
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