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Priorities include removing objects within five feet of a house, upgrading vents Wildfire losses cost taxpayers and communities hundreds of billions of dollars each year, and preparing communities before a disaster occurs is the best way to avoid damage to homes and neighborhoods.

Join us for our August North Sac Valley 'Third Thursday Things from the Field'! Hear updates on management strategies for upcoming challenges and share what youve been seeing in the field. Tour the recently planted walnut variety trial at the Chico State Farm and hear Dr. Pat J.

Donald A. Luvisi, UC Cooperative Extension viticulture advisor emeritus of Kern County, passed away in Bakersfield on July 10 at the age of 87. Luvisi served as the viticulture farm advisor for Kern County from 1960 until his retirement 39 years later in 1999.

Weeds abound: On farmland, pastures, rangelands, in natural areas, in our yards and along our sidewalks. Managing those pesky plants costs plenty: California farmers alone spend more than $900 million annually on weed control, according to a University of California study.

We have had some interesting calls lately concerning issues we do not usually see in the fields. We have received calls about small circular areas with snipped rice in fields west of I-5.

I have been hearing rumbles about grasshoppers in the Valley, mostly in grasslands. I visited a rice field last week with high grasshopper populations. Most of the grasshoppers were near field borders at a density of about 2-3 per square yard in the most dense areas.

Growing up in Upper Lake, along the North Shore of Clear Lake, Matthew Barnes lived near several of the Lake County region's seven federally recognized tribes.

Phytoplasma Diseases of Palms in the USA Robert R Krueger1 and Brian W Bahder2 1USDA-ARS National Clonal Germplasm Repository for Citrus & Date, Riverside, CA 2Dept of Entomology & Nematology, University of Florida Fort Lauderdale Research & Education Center, Davie, FL Phytoplasmas are plant pathoge...

August in the Master Gardener's Rose Cycle chart (https://napamg.ucanr.edu/files/254549.pdf) indicates we have a lot of deadheading to do on our 50 bushes. In addition, ideally we should add some fresh mulch around the trunk out to the drip line of the bush.