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In this issue: Using N-Rich Reference Zones in Wheat to Guide Fertilizer Management Field Corn Variety Trial Variety Results Look out for Thousand Cankers Disease in Your Walnut Orchard 2021 Delta Rice Recap Managing Fusarium falciforme Vine Decline of Tomato UC ANR Announcements/ Calendar of Events...

Postdoctoral scholar Fatemeh Ganjisaffar of the Frank Zalom lab, UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology, will present a virtual seminar on Wednesday, Nov. 10 on "Addressing an Evolving Invasive Species Crisis: Insecticide Resistance Management and Behavioral Control of Drosophila suzukii.

The Blue Potato Bush is the name of this bush, the botanical name is Lycianthes rantonnetii, family Solanaceae. This plant was once believed to belong to the Nightshade family. When researching, I found different theories. Some say it does belong, but others say it does not.

Dear Colleagues, The California Department of Water Resources is launching the 2021 Roundtable of Regions Summit, Climate Resilience and Integrated Regional Water Management: Building Successful Partnerships.

Dear Colleagues, USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture is seeking proposals for the Food Safety Outreach Program (FSOP) to develop and implement food safety training, education, extension, outreach and technical assistance projects that address the needs of owners and operators of small to...

A neighborly project by entomologist Jeff Smith, the volunteer curator of the worldwide Lepidoptera collection at the Bohart Museum of Entomology, University of California Davis, has ended on a sweet note that will benefit the museum.

Our friend Lynn Sosnoskie (at Cornell University) shared the following announcement with us: A free (downloadable) resource Manage Weeds on Your Farm A Guide to Ecological Strategies Manage-Weeds-on-Your-Farm.pdf (sare.

Welcome to Dr. Hung Doan who started Monday, November 1st as a Small Farms Advisor, based in Moreno Valley, with programmatic responsibilities in Riverside and San Bernardino Counties. We are excited that Dr.

by Dianne Weyna My experience with buying ginger root from the grocery store is that I use a small piece from the large piece I buy, and the rest either starts to grow or goes bad.

In a previous blog post, I introduced a project about using nitrogen (N) rich reference zones in wheat. The goal of the project is to show how N-rich reference zones can be used to guide N fertilization in small grains, to increase crop productivity and N use efficiency.