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disease pyramid
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Disease Pyramid

December 29, 2015
By Ben A Faber
The disease pyramid describes how disease can eventually destroy a plant. It is comprised of the presents of the pathogen that causes the disease, the plant or host, the environmental conditions that sets up the pathogen to go after the plant and time.
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avocado shrivelled canopy
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Bot Rot

December 27, 2015
By Ben A Faber
There have been so many calls recently with the same problem, thinning canopy with dieback. Thiscan be caused by several problems, but the most common this time of year is lack of good water management over the year, accentuated by lack of rain and salt damage.
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Bug Squad: Article

A Buggy Kind of Christmas: A Poem Revisited

December 25, 2015
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
It's a buggy kind of Christmas. Mussen/Garvey style. You've heard "The 12 Days of Christmas," beginning with a single "partridge in a pear tree" and ending with "12 drummers drumming.
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The Real Reason Why Santa Is Hurrying Down the Chimney

December 24, 2015
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
So, hurry down the chimney, tonight! So goes a line from "Santa Baby." The songwriters (J. Javits, P. Springer and T. Springer) listed all the good presents they wanted Santa to bring: a sable, a '54 convertible (light blue, please!), a yacht, a duplex and a deed to a platinum mine.
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Saving the Monarchs: Saving the Sacred Trees

December 23, 2015
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
We can help save the monarch butterflies by saving the "sacred" trees in central Mexico where most of the migrating population overwinters. Science journalist Janet Marinelli, writing in Yalee360, said it well in her Dec. 21st piece, "To Protect Monarch: a Plan to Save the Sacred Firs.
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Drought Impact Map
Livestock & Range: Article

How Is The Drought Impacting Your Operation?

December 23, 2015
By Devii R Rao
UC Davis, UC Cooperative Extension, the California Cattlemen's Association, and the California Wool Growers Association are all partnering to conduct a survey of California ranchers.
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ShanksWithDepthLines
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What's Up With The Yeomans Plow?

December 22, 2015
By Devii R Rao
UCCE Watershed Advisor Royce Larsen put on a workshop in Creston (San Luis Obispo County) yesterday to demonstrate use of the Yeomans Plow, which was developed in Australia.
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Yuzu fruit bowl
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Yuzu

December 22, 2015
By Ben A Faber
Lots of seeds; thick, coarse skin; not big, not small; thorns; sour; but fragrant, cold tolerant and selling for good prices. A cross between one of the original citrus parents papeda and a mandarin. It's got some pretty ancestral properties with something of a lemony flavor and a grapefruit odor.
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