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Temperatures are starting to cool down a bit, a nice reprieve from the consistently hot summer we've been having. Maybe we'll get some rain in the next three or four weeks and get some good germination. Hopefully, we won't get too much yellow starthistle this coming year, but we'll see.

Joint USDA NRCS-CDFA Healthy Soils Summit CDFA Building Auditorium Sacramento, CA January 11, 2017 Comments provided by Jeff Mitchell Late this past Sunday evening, it suddenly dawned on me that I had been dwelling on and dedicating more time and effort to my participation in this afternoon's panel...

2017 Pitahaya/Dragon Fruit Production Tour Ventura UC Hansen Agricultural Research and Extension Center 14292 W Telegraph Rd.

When the UC Davis Bohart Museum of Entomology hosts an open house, "Insects and U" on Sunday afternoon, Sept. 24, for the public to get acquainted with insects, it will also be a time to get acquainted with entomologist Jeff Smith, curator of the butterfly and moth collection.

The UC Cooperative Extension Delta Corn and Sorghum Field Meeting will take place on Wednesday, October 11, 2017, from 10:00am to noon, on Tyler Island in Sacramento County. The agenda is pasted below and attached. The attached version includes a map and directions to the field site.

Just call it "The Day that the Beetles Invaded the Bohart.

Capitol Public Radio broadcast a report on spotted spurge this morning, including an interview with UCCE Farm Advisor Whitney Brim-DeForest.

Last May/June during a hot period and soon after fruit set, avocado growers and PCAs in the Oxnard/Camarillo area were calling in about young fruit about he size of a quarter showing up with white spots. Cutting into the fruit there might only be a small black spot just below the injury.

Mark your calendar! Here's an opportunity--especially for new students and prospective students at the University of California, Davis and their families--to learn about insects. While students are moving into the dorms on Sunday, Sept.

Article written by UC Davis PhD student Caio Brunharo from his dissertation research.