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blue-green algae
Livestock & Range: Article

Summertime - Blue-green algae time

August 17, 2020
By Gabriele U Maier
By GabrieleMaier, CE Specialist Beef Cattle Herd Health & Production and Josh Davy, County Director Cooperative Extension, Tehama County Blue-green algae, also known as cyanobacteria, can be found in surface water like ponds.
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Vegetable weeder is demonstrated at Weed Day at UC Davis. (photo credit: Bob Johnson)
UC Weed Science (weed control, management, ecology, and minutia): Article

Fennimore receives 2020 EurAgEng Outstanding Paper Award

August 17, 2020
By Kristin Burns
Steve Fennimore, UC Davis Plant Sciences faculty member and UC Cooperative Extension weed specialist, and colleagues received the 2020 EurAgEng Outstanding Paper Award for the paper, Crop Signalling: A Novel Crop Recognition Technique for Robotic Control, which was published in Biosystems Engineerin...
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Kern County: Article

Volume 22, Summer 2020

August 17, 2020
Proactive Management of the Avocado Seed Weevil, Heilipus lauri False Chinch Bug in New Avocado Plantings Snapshot: The Mexican Date Industry Removing Avocado Suckers with Glyphosate UC Ag Experts Talk...
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Jam scone cheese bread
Master Food Preserver SLO/SB Counties: Article

Vacation in a Jar!

August 17, 2020
Are you in need of a tropical vacation? Kiwi Daiquiri Jam is a simple and quick way to enjoy the delicious tropical flavors of kiwi, pineapple, and lime in a sweet and tart beautifully speckled jam.
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A honey bee stuck in milkweed pollinia. This plant is the narrowleaf milkweed,Asclepias fascicularis. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Bug Squad: Article

Milkweed: A Honey Bee's Floral Trap

August 17, 2020
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
It is not a "pretty sight," as Ernest Hemingway might have said, to see a honey bee stuck like glue--nature's "gorilla glue?"-in the reproductive chamber of a milkweed. It's a trap, a floral trap.
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UCCE in the County of San Luis Obispo: Article

Public Safety Power Shutoff Online Survey - Last Reminder -

August 17, 2020
Hello- Please see the attached letter for information about "PUBLIC SAFETY POWER SHUTOFF (PSPS) ONLINE SURVEY". If you have already completed this survey, please disregard this reminder. We'd appreciate your participation in this project. Thank you.
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