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EFNEP, UC Cooperative Extension's Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program, partnered with Culinary Arts Program in Tulare County to celebrate EFNEP's 50th anniversary.

Invasive shot hole borers (ISHB) are a pest and disease complex potentially affecting over 200 tree species, but posing a strong risk to box elders, sycamores, and other riparian and urban trees, as well as being a nuisance pest for avocado.

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 07-08-2019" ET Report 07-08-2019 Please see disclaimer link below: University of California Divisi...

The Pacific Division of the American Phytopathological Society recently awarded Dr. Themis Michailides their Lifetime Achievement Award.

When: July 17, 2019, 9:00-10:00 a.m. Where: 10061 Vineyard Avenue, Westley, CA What: Walk through an 8th leaf orchard featuring Nonpareil on 16 rootstocks grown under "typical" West Side farming conditions: heavy, high pH, clay-loam soil irrigated with water sometimes high in chloride and boron.

When I first inherited this pear tree it was hemmed in between two structures and restricted to a 3-foot diameter opening in the concrete. I had noticed that several of the branches growing straight up were blacken and appeared dead. I assumed that the recent drought had caused the problem.

New location for classes, tomorrow's class.

Maximizing walnut quality to improve value in a low-price year, Regulated Deficit Irrigation in Almonds to Manage Hull Rot, and On-Farm Recharge on Pecans for Groundwater Sustainability Includes a Survey on grower interest in the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SGMA) and On Farm Recharge (OF...

Dear Colleagues, The state's fiscal year 2019-20 budget will remain the same as FY18/19 for UC Office of the President (UCOP), of which UC ANR is a key component.

I arrived in Albuquerque Sunday afternoon. It was surprisingly cool here for the first 12 hours. While that has changed, 3 years in the desert that is California has acclimated me. Keith and Bill Frost, and Jean Marie Peltier are here with Glenda and I.