Archive Nut, Prune and Olive Programs

Recent advances in understanding the history of olive domestication Elizabeth Fichtner, Farm Advisor, UCCE Tulare and Kings Counties Olives are thought to have first been domesticated in the northeastern Levant, an area near the border of present-day Turkey and Syria. Map captured from Google Maps.

Links to two short introductory videos on the California Farm Demonstration Network are now available at the CASI website http://casi.ucanr.edu/. The first one is about 8 minutes long and presents a number of the farmers and features of the Network.

Eight members of California Ag Solutions of Madera, CA were hosted at the longstanding NRI Project field in Five Points on Tuesday, June 27th by Jeff Mitchell.

We are seeing severe armyworm infestations in the field. Moth numbers have stayed relatively constant in a few locations, still on the increase in Sutter and Yolo counties. This means that egg laying may continue and we may have more worms coming up.

Remember when scientists first detected the Mediterranean fruit fly in California? It was the early 1980s.

Two more trees infected with huanglongbing (HLB) disease were identified and destroyed in the days before UC Cooperative Extension and the Citrus Research Board kicked off their spring Citrus Growers Education Seminar in Exeter June 27.

Don't miss Clyde Elmore's photo exhibit... "In the Wild" July 5-August 31, 2017 Buehler Alumni Center, UC Davis If you attend Weed Day 2017 (July 13, 2017), you'll get a chance to see the exhibit and talk to Clyde. There will be a reception from 4-7 PM on July 7, 2017.

"Killer bees can pursue people for more than a quarter mile when they are animated and antagonistic and die once they sting since the stingers are located at their abdomen.

In this issue: Important Enrollment News...

The Bohart Museum of Entomology came out in force on Monday, June 26 to honor Tabatha Yang, the recipient of the top award in the service category of the UC Davis Staff Assembly's Citation for Excellence Program.