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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

Mariposa County: Article

November 2018

October 25, 2018

Here is the November Spirit for your reading.

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Sacramento Valley Field Crops: Article

Newly Revised UCANR Cost and Return Study for Hybrid Sunflower Seed Production

October 25, 2018

By Sarah E Light, Rachael Long

The UC Agriculture and Natural Resources Agricultural Issues Center (UC ANR) has released a study on the costs and returns of producing sunflowers for hybrid seed in the Sacramento Valley.

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ANR Employee News: Article

Apply by Nov. 9 to be SI leader for Water or Healthy Families and Communities

October 25, 2018

By Pamela S Kan-Rice

ANR academics are invited to apply for Strategic Initiative leader positions, which play key roles in unifying, communicating and advocating to strengthen UC ANR's research and outreach agenda.

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A honey bee heads for a lupine blossom. Nectar-living microbes release scents or volatile compounds, too, and can influence a pollinator’s foraging preference, according to UC Davis community ecologist Rachel Vannette, recipient of a Hellman Fellowship. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Bug Squad: Article

UC Davis Community Ecologist Rachel Vannette: Hellman Fellowship to Research Pollinator Microbiomes

October 24, 2018

By Kathy Keatley Garvey

Congratulations to community ecologist Rachel Vannette, assistant professor in the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology: she was just selected as one of the 11 campus recipients of a Hellman Fellowship grant.

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ANR Employee News: Article

Marijuana use and possession still prohibited on UC property

October 24, 2018

By Pamela S Kan-Rice

On Jan. 1, 2018, the legal sale of recreational marijuana commenced in California. This followed the passage of Proposition 64 by California voters on Nov. 8, 2016, which legalized its recreational use by people over the age of 21. However, Prop.

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Community ecologist Rachel Vannette, recipient of a Hellman Fellowship grant for her research on pollinator microbiomes, examines a California fucshia, Epilobium canum, outside Briggs Hall. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Entomology & Nematology News: Article

Rachel Vannette Selected Hellman Fellow

October 24, 2018

By Kathy Keatley Garvey

DAVIS--Community ecologist Rachel Vannette, assistant professor, UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology, is one of the 11 campus recipients of this year's Hellman Fellowship grants.

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This graphic illustrates the Christian Nansen article on "Penetration and Scattering—Two Optical Phenomena to Consider When Applying Proximal Remote Sensing Technologies to Object Classifications," published in PLOS ONE. (Image courtesy of Christian Nansen)

Entomology & Nematology News: Article

How Skittles, Magnolia Leaves, Mosquito Eggs and Paper Figured into This UC Davis Research

October 24, 2018

By Kathy Keatley Garvey

DAVIS--Using candy (Skittles), magnolia leaves, mosquito eggs and sheets of paper, UC Davis agricultural entomologist and remote sensing technology researcher Christian Nansen explored how light penetrates and scatters--and found that how you see an object can depend on what is next to it, under it...

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Nursery and Flower Grower: Article

Horizontal Air Flow

October 24, 2018

By Steven A Tjosvold

The previous blog post explained how moving air helps maximize photosynthesis by increasing the ambient CO2 diffusion into the leaf. The trick is to efficiently move air around the greenhouse so that can happen. Since 1967, when the Horizontal Air Flow (HAF) concept was introduced by Dr.

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Not sure how long he's been waiting for this meeting

ANR Adventures: Article

Meetings take their toll

October 24, 2018

By Wendy Powers

I noticed the Davis skeleton was welcoming visitors to the building again this morning, after having spent some time in the elevator and on the exercise bike. The skeleton appears to now be waiting for a meeting to begin.

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Figure 1. Polyphagous shot hole borer. (Credit: Akif Eskalen)

Managing Invasive Shot Hole Borers in Southern California

October 24, 2018

By Beatriz E Nobua Behrmann

[Originally published in the Fall 2018 issue of the Green Bulletin. Modified slightly from original.] Invasive wood-boring beetles are attacking hundreds of thousands of trees in southern California, including commercial avocados, and trees within urban landscapes and wildland environments.

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