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Mark Lundy has joined UCCE as the agronomy advisor in Colusa, Sutter and Yuba counties, effective June 28. He will focus on forage crops, wheat, safflower, processing tomatoes, dry beans, corn, and hybrid seed crops.

Another link to a University of California Cooperative Extension (UCCE) Field Day. Weed Science Farm Advisor John Roncoroni (Napa and surrounding counties) will be show and discuss the results of a wine grape herbicide trial at Hess Vineyards near American Canyon CA on July 17th.

A microirrigaiton workshop on use and maintainence of systems in Spanish is being held on three successive dates in San Luis Obispo, Ventura and Fallbrook. These are the same workshop held on July 23, 24 and 25 in the respective areas.

See attached flyer for a University of California Cooperative Extension (UCCE) Field Day at the West Side Research and Extension Center near Five Points, CA.

There's nothing like seeing an admiral at a marina. That would be the Red Admiral butterfly, Vanessa atalanta, at the Berkeley marina. It's often very common in the urban Bay Area, says butterfly expert Art Shapiro, professor of evolution and ecology at the University of California, Davis.

A severely affected strawberry field in Santa Maria Many strawberry growers in the Santa Maria and possibly in Salinas and Watsonville areas are now aware of a disease that is causing the die out in some fields.

For the past 20 years, I have taken Elkhorn Avenue just about every day from my home in Kingsburg out west to the small town of Five Points where I work.

Nine representatives of the Conservation Agriculture Systems Innovation (CASI) Center recently met with leaders of two important University of California groups on the UC Davis campus to introduce CASI initiatives and to seek closer collaboration between CASI and these partner UC groups.

It was a bad day for a butterfly. We stopped by the Ruth Risdon Storer Garden, part of the UC Davis Arboretum, at noon today as triple-digit temperatures climbed to a scorching 103.

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