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Consider the tsetse fly. The blood-sucking insect, which transmits the parasite that causes human and animal trypanosomiasis, has wreaked havoc in African countries.

Continue planting your winter vegetable garden. You'll hear about most everything that will help you maintain your garden this month. Oooh . . . Pumpkins! Would you like to get updates from the Orange County Master Gardeners? Hear about what we are doing in the community Receive the "Garden Beet".

Summary Note Mechanical cultivation is a useful tool in controlling herbicide-resistant Italian ryegrass individuals in a rainfed wheat system but is only about half as effective as Axial in reducing overall pressure from Italian ryegrass (expressed as a percentage of total groundcover).

Reposting from UC Small Grains Blog (https://ucanr.edu/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=31431) ... Results for the 2018-2019 fall planted UC Statewide Small Grain Variety Trials are now available at: http://smallgrains.ucanr.

The U.S. Department of State and the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board are pleased to announce that Steven Fennimore of the University of California, Davis, has received a Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program award to work in Uruguay in agriculture.

Results from the statewide UC small grains variety testing program are now available for the 2018-19 season. The Delta trial location was on Staten Island on a Valdez silt loam soil.

The USDA has summarized the US citrus crop for 2018-19 and it is up for both California and Florida, with CA accounting for 51% of US production! But the Florida orange crop is up from last year.

Please see below link to access "How To Use Weekly Crop Water Use (ET) Reports to Assist Farm Water Management" How To Use Weekly Crop Water Use Report Please see below link to access "Weekly ET Report 09-30-2019" ET Report 09-30-2019 Please see disclaimer link below: University of California Divisi...

Friday, October 11, 2019, 8:00 a.m. - 9:30 a.m. Join your local team of UC Cooperative Extension Farm & IPM Advisors to discuss current pest management and production issues in orchard crops. Space is limited - please RSVP to Emily Symmes at (530) 538-7201 or eisymmes@ucanr.

Friday, October 11, 2019, 8:00 a.m. - 9:30 a.m. Join your local team of UC Cooperative Extension Farm & IPM Advisors to discuss current pest management and production issues in orchard crops. Space is limited - please RSVP to Emily Symmes at (530) 538-7201 or eisymmes@ucanr.