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Notes from a Neighbor - Grower

December 11, 2023
By Ben A Faber
This is a recent opinion piece in the Ventura Star, Santa Paula Times and Thousand Oaks Acorn by grower Lisa Tate: OPINION (https://www.vcstar.com/opinion/) Letters to the editor: Be an Ag hero with fruit flies Ventura County Star Keep your fruit in your backyard Re: your Oct.
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Thriving Forward: Article

Meet 4-H Club President Myah

December 11, 2023
By Matthew R Rodriguez
Recently I [Matt] had a chance to interview 4-H youth member Myah who is also this year's 4-H club president for Ophir in Placer County. The following are Myah's responses to my questions.
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photos by Erin Mahaney
Under the Solano Sun: Article

Working for Peanuts

December 11, 2023
As I prepared my raised vegetable beds for fall by removing tired plants, I hesitated at one plant. It looked a bit like a short vine I had planted elsewhere that had not thrived.
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Johnsongrass identified growing near agricultural land using Google Street View. The yellow boxes were designated by artificial intelligence; the red boxes were drawn by human hand. (Mohsen Mesgaran/UC Davis)
UC Weed Science (weed control, management, ecology, and minutia): Article

Mesgaran creates new tool: Google Weed View

December 10, 2023
By Gale Perez
To manage johnsongrass, a noxious weed that crowds out cotton and sickens horses, farmers have tried herbicides, burning and hand-pulling.
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A monarch caterpillar sharing a milkweed leaf with oleander aphids on Dec. 8, 2023 in a Vacaville garden. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Bug Squad: Article

Monarch 'Cats Sleeping with the Aphids

December 8, 2023
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
Sleeping with the aphids...that's what this monarch caterpillar was doing. It lived--and quite hidden at that--through the freezing cold, the rain, and the wind. It surfaced today on a milkweed in our Vacaville pollinator garden.
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Livestock, Range and Natural Resources: Article

Verano 2022

December 8, 2023
En este nmero: Grabaciones y recursos virtuales Encuesta sobre la mastitis ovina Eventos que vienen...
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Chart of food insecurity from the USDA Economic Research Service
Healthy Youth, Families, and Communities: Article

Hunger and food insecurity is rising: COVID-19 taught us a lot about how to fix it

December 8, 2023
By Shannon Klisch
In the last 12 months, have you ever: worried that your food would run out before you got money to buy more? been unable to afford balanced meals? cut the size of your meals or skipped meals because there wasn't enough money for food? lost weight because there wasn't enough money for food?
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sanitation survey QR UCD
UC Weed Science (weed control, management, ecology, and minutia): Article

Equipment sanitation survey (broomrape and other pests/pathogens)

December 8, 2023
By Brad Hanson
A group of crop pest management and food safety researchers across the U.S. is currently gathering grower and ag industry information on field equipment sanitation practices with the ultimate goal of designing research to address needs of the agricultural industry and consumers.
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