Archive Nut, Prune and Olive Programs

IN THIS ISSUE: INTRODUCTION AND NEW RESEARCH Did a Newly Introduced Fukumoto Navel Budline from Spain Perform Better than the California Budline in the San Joaquin Valley? What values should olive growers use for estimating crop nitrogen removal at harvest?

The 2015 Rice Production Workshop will be held on July 24th, at The Refuge Restaurant, 1501 Butte House Road, Yuba City, CA.

Deciduous plants need a certain period of dormancy during which they accumulate hours of cold. This is a very practical process on their part, since most dormant plants grow in cold climates. Differing areas have different patterns of cold.

It's National Pollinator Week and there's exciting news on the horizon. Staff research associate Billy Synk of the Harry H. Laidlaw Jr. Honey Bee Research Facility, University of California, Davis, has been named director of Pollination Programs for Project Apis m.

It's good to see all the focus on National Pollinator Week, as typified by UC Davis graduate student/native bee ecologist Margaret "Rei" Scampavia (at right) focusing on a male Valley carpenter bee. This is Xylocopa varipuncta, also known as "the teddy bear bee.

Lettuce field at Betteravia Farms, Santa Maria ABSTRACT Few herbicides are available for use in lettuce and more effective weed control tools are needed.

This is National Pollinator Week and what better time to post some bee wisdom from Cooperative Extension apiculturist (now emeritus) Eric Mussen?

From https://www.facebook.com/CANaturalist?fref=nf Work in progress: Associate Director Sabrina Drill has a PhD in Geography from UCLA and, with support from the UC ANR IGIS team (http://igis.ucanr.

In order to properly irrigate any crop, you need to know how much water you are putting onto the crop.

Just in time for Pollinator Week. The wild bee research co-authored by 58 bee scientists and published today (June 16) in Nature Communications is drawing a lot of attention--and well it should.