Archive Nut, Prune and Olive Programs

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It's been awhile since I attempted gardening any kinds of vegetables out in the Mesa after the initial year of failures. I thought hard about putting in raised beds closer to the house, maybe putting in a pest deterrent fence around it.

2019 Annual Alfalfa and Forage Field Day Thursday, September 19, 2019 UC Kearney Agricultural Research and Extension Center - Parlier Save the Date!...

Canines have a highly sensitive scent detection capability that is significantly better (parts per trillion) than most laboratory instruments and they can be trained to alert (either sit or lay) when they detect specific smells' (known as scent signatures).

We are getting prepared for our second year of a three-year project evaluating a warm-season legume cover crop between winter small grain crops. We are conducting the trial in a commercial field on Staten Island in the Delta.

I love my easy-to-grow, leggy Verbena bonariensis with its clusters of butterfly-attracting purple flowers, but for the second year in a row, it has been affected by powdery mildew. Powdery mildew is a common fungal disease that is favored by wind and dry conditions.

SAVE THE DATE!...

SAVE THE DATE!...

2019 Annual Alfalfa and Forage Field Day Thursday, September 19, 2019 UC Kearney Agricultural Research and Extension Center, Parlier 9240 S. Riverbend Ave. NO COST TO ATTEND Get ready for a half day of forage research demonstrations and educational presentations in the field and in the classroom.

City of Riverside staff draped a synthetic screen on a steel frame to encompass the 'parent navel' orange tree at the corner of Arlington and Magnolia avenues in Riverside to protect it from Asian citrus psyllids that spread huanglongbing disease, reported Ryan Hagen in the Riverside Press-Enterpris...