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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

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

EPA Proposes New Rules for Pesticide Applicators

January 13, 2016

By Gale Perez

[From the December 2015 issue of the UC IPM Green Bulletin] On August 5, 2015, EPA released a proposal to revise the standards for both commercial and private certified pesticide applicators.

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Bug Squad: Article

For the Love of Honey Bees: Elizabeth Frost Now Back In Australia

January 13, 2016

By Kathy Keatley Garvey

Elizabeth "Liz" Frost, formerly of the University of California, Davis, is taking her love of honey bees back to Australia. She's the newly hired honey bee development officer, an Extension-like position, in the state of New South Wales. Frost left the States last Sunday, Jan. 10.

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IGIS: Article

Spatial Data Science Bootcamp March 2016

January 13, 2016

By Maggi Kelly

We live in a world where the importance and availability of spatial data are ever increasing.

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Bug Squad: Article

A Teaching Moment

January 12, 2016

By Kathy Keatley Garvey

How do you get your point across if you're trying to explain what a "parasitoid" is? Well, if you're the Bohart Museum of Entomology at the University of California, Davis, you do it with a family craft activity--inflating a balloon inside a balloon to get a "parasitoid" balloon.

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SJC and Delta Field Crops: Article

2015 Rice Variety Trial - SJC Results

January 12, 2016

By Michelle M Leinfelder-Miles

Tables 1 and 2, respectively, show the results of the 2015 San Joaquin County rice variety trial and a 5-year yield summary of very early maturing commercial varieties. The statewide trials are a cooperative effort of the California Cooperative Rice Research Foundation, Inc.

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Livestock & Range: Article

Job Announcement: UCCE Beef Cattle Research Assistant

January 12, 2016

By Devii R Rao

UCCE is recruiting to fill two positions at the Sierra Foothill Research & Extension Center in Browns Valley. If you know of any potential candidates, please have them check out the links below. Beef Cattle Research Assistant: http://ucanr.edu/Jobs/Jobs_990/?jobnum=934 https://jobs.ucop.

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Bug Squad: Article

How an Entomologist Switched from Insects to Humans to Target Chronic Pain

January 11, 2016

By Kathy Keatley Garvey

He went from researching pest insects to targeting chronic pain in humankind.

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Conservation Agriculture: Article

CASI takes part in planning meeting in AZ

January 11, 2016

By Jeffrey P Mitchell

Several CASI members recently took part in a planning workshop that was held at the University of Arizona's Maricopa Agricultural Center to consider and develop opportunities for working together on joint research aimed at coupling advanced technologies and practices for high efficiency and resource...

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