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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

Lake County: Article

May 2018

May 11, 2018

Summer Camp Update, Kiwanis Pancake Breakfast SELL SELL SELL, 4-H Pull-Up Banner Photo Contest, Club Reports, Calendar of Events.

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Part of the strawberry field at Manzanita Berry Farms near Santa Maria where UCCE advisor Surandra Dara conducts trials on biologicals and other potential remedies for soil borne diseases, weeds and insects.

Green Blog: Article

Probiotics for plants: A new frontier for boosting crop production

May 11, 2018

By Jeannette Warnert

The strawberry industry ended a long good-bye to methyl bromide in 2016. The fumigant had been used for decades to kill a wide range of soil-borne pathogens, weed seeds and insects, permitting the California strawberry industry to flourish.

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Dixon May Fair Youth Building superintendent Building superintendent Stephanie Hill (left) of Yuba City and assistant building superintendent Pat Connelly of Vacaville hang bumble bee pillow, the work of Solano County 4-H'ers. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Bug Squad: Article

Kids and Bugs Go Well Together: Check Out the Dixon May Fair

May 10, 2018

By Kathy Keatley Garvey

Kids and bugs go well together. Take the entries in Today's Youth Building at the 143rd annual Dixon May Fair, which opened Thursday, May 10 and continues through Sunday, May 13.

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This year's forage production information as compared to our average.

SFREC News: Article

Forage Production Data April 2018

May 10, 2018

By Alexandra Stefancich

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Cooperative Extension Ventura County: Article

Landscape and Plant Pathology Notebook Volume 27, Issue 1

May 10, 2018

Research Rendezvous Pruning Climate Ready Plants First Year Pruning results on Climate Ready Trees in Four locations Landscape and Plant Pathology Notebook...

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Under the Solano Sun: Article

Death Among the Flowers

May 10, 2018

It had been a good day in the garden. I had gotten to spend six hours working in the back yard. Digging up some of the garlic chives in the raised bed had allowed me to plant a tomatillo and African blue basil.

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Millions of photos of avocado toast are posted to Instagram every day. (Photo: Pixabay)

ANR News Blog: Article

Avocados go from Meso-American backyards to 'world domination'

May 10, 2018

By Jeannette Warnert

Avocados, now riding a tide of popularity appearing on toast in cookbooks and trendy restaurant menus, came late to commercial agriculture, reported Cynthia Graber and Nicola Twilley in Gastropod, a podcast that looks at food through the lens of science and history.

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Fig. 8. Mating pair of bagrada bugs on perennial pepperweed. Note the fresh damage in the top right where you can still see the “rays” of the starburst damage. Damage in the bottom left is older, with leaf tissue becoming necrotic and damage becoming less defined.

Salinas Valley Agriculture: Article

Scouting for bagrada bug and an update on a biological control project for this pest

May 10, 2018

By Ian M Grettenberger

With warming weather come contemplations of bagrada bug. This is the time in the past when we start to find bagrada bug populations on flourishing shortpod mustard plants or patches of pepperweed in the Salinas Valley.

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Jennifer Sowerwine discusses plantings with Jon Hoffman, farm manager of the UC Gill Tract Community Farm in Albany. PHOTO: Saul Bromberger

Healthy Communities Blog: Article

Continuing the mission of UC Cooperative Extension

May 10, 2018

By Julie Gipple

Jennifer Sowerwine helps restore culturally relevant food systems to immigrant and Native American populations The Karuk Tribe once lived on more than a million acres in remote Northern California.

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ANR Adventures: Article

Thursday anticipation

May 10, 2018

By Wendy Powers

It's finally Thursday! All week I've been off on my days, for some reason thinking it was Thursday each day. I chalk it up to trying out more powerful allergy meds.

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