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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

UCCE Master Gardeners and 4-H members partner with City Slicker Farms, teaching people how to grow food in West Oakland.

ANR Employee News: Article

RECs and county office staff update ANR leaders on current projects

September 28, 2018

By Pamela S Kan-Rice

To get acquainted with the people at each ANR location, Mark Lagrimini, vice provost of research and extension, has been visiting research and extension centers and UCCE county offices and touring the facilities.

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ANR Employee News: Article

Federal Report Snapshot highlights ANR accomplishments

September 28, 2018

By Pamela S Kan-Rice

Each spring, the UC ANR Office of Program Planning and Evaluation (PPE) compiles and submits a report to our federal funding partner, USDA's National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA). In August, NIFA approved UC ANR's 2017 report.

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ANR Employee News: Article

Project Board integrates reporting and may facilitate collaboration

September 28, 2018

By Pamela S Kan-Rice

Project Board is a new online system that integrates ANR academic program review, civil rights compliance, and accountability reporting requirements. It also has search features that may facilitate collaboration and support advocacy efforts.

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Cooperative Extension, Sutter-Yuba Counties: Article

Sacramento Valley Field Crop Newsletter - Fall, 2018

September 28, 2018

48th California Alfalfa and Forage Symposium Soil Health and Cover Crop Field Day Newly revised UC ANR Cost and Return Study for Hybrid Sunflower Seed Production Newly revised UC IPM Guidelines for Dry Beans Cover Crop Management in Annual Farming Systems New oat hay varieties show disease resistanc...

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Oleander aphids clustering on a milkweed stem. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Bug Squad: Article

The Enemy of the Gardener

September 28, 2018

By Kathy Keatley Garvey

Aphids, don't you just hate them? Especially those oleander aphids that suck the very lifeblood out of our milkweed plants that we're struggling to save for monarch butterflies. Just call aphids "The Enemy of the Gardener" or "The Enemy of the Milkweed.

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ANR Employee News: Article

Names in the News

September 28, 2018

By Pamela S Kan-Rice

Sidhu named UCCE vegetable crops advisor for Kern County Jaspreet Sidhu joined UCCE on Sept. 4, 2018, as the vegetable crops advisor for Kern County. Sidhu earned a Ph.D. in entomology from Louisiana State University and a M.S. in entomology and a B.S.

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Stanislaus County: Article

Evapotranspiration Report - 9/27/2018

September 28, 2018

Hello all, Please find the attached document to provide the previous weeks estimated water use report in terms of evapotranspiration for almonds, peaches, walnuts, established vineyard, alfalfa, and pasture in Stanislaus County.

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ANR Contracts & Grants Updates: Article

FFAR Updates Research Challenge Areas for 2019 and Solicits Comments – Share your input by 10/12

September 28, 2018

By Kathleen P Nolan

Dear Colleagues, The Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research (FFAR) is expanding and refining the FFAR Challenge Areas for 2019. FFAR funds innovative research to solve food and agriculture's most pressing problems, which are defined by the Challenge Areas.

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ANR Contracts & Grants Updates: Article

CDFA accepting proposals for the 2019 Specialty Crop Block Grant Program (SCBG) – Due 11/2 by 5 p.m. PST

September 28, 2018

By Kathleen P Nolan

Dear Colleagues, The California Department of Food and Agricultureaccepting proposals for the 2019 Specialty Crop Block Grant Program (SCBGP).

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ANR Employee News: Article

ANR celebrates Hispanic Heritage Month

September 28, 2018

By Pamela S Kan-Rice

Each year, during Hispanic Heritage Month from September 15 to October 15 the country celebrates the culture and contributions of those whose ancestors came from Spain, Mexico, the Caribbean and Central and South America.

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