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Just catching up on my reading, and ran across this little number concerning the production of seed propagated strawberries. To some extent, this is to provide an "environmentally friendly alternative to the vegetatively propagated varieties currently relied upon by the strawberry industry".

A major citrus pest may experience a Bah, Humbug! kind of year.

The California Chapter of the American Agronomy Society meets in Fresno this coming February 6-7. This is a multi-day conference with numerous speakers covering all manner of agricultural and environmental issues primarily related to California issues.

Happy New Year! Hopefully the holidays were a time to rest and revive. We now enter "meeting season".

Summary: Following the crop production season in the fall, soil nitrate-nitrogen (N) levels can rise to high levels.

The picture below is of the cast iron plants that followed me to my car last September after the Master Gardener Plant exchange. The day of the plant exchange, when all kinds of plants arrived from the college's horticulture program, I googled this plant several times.

University of California Cooperative Extension, USDA Farm Service Agency, California Avocado Commission and California Avocado Society Fire Recovery and Frost Refresher Santa Paula Agricultural Museum, 926 Railroad Ave, Santa Paula January 10, 9 11 AM, Wednesday Introduction Ben Faber, UCCE Fire D...

Bring on the bumble bees! In yesterday's Bug Squad blog, we mentioned the unusual first-of-the-year bumble bee sightings at the Benicia Capitol State Historic Park. We captured images of the yellow-faced bumble bees, Bombus vosnesenskii, nectaring on jade, Crassula ovata, the morning of Jan.

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