Archive Nut, Prune and Olive Programs

If you're growing a tower of jewels (Echium wildpretii) in your yard, you won't need a stop sign or a traffic light to encourage vehicles to slow down--they will automatically when they see this spectacular plant. it's a traffic stopper.

Trying to stay abreast of the insect and disease it carries to citrus?

Sometimes it's like trying to find a needle in a haystack. The common blue damselfly or Northern Bluet (Enallagma cyathigerum) is long and slender like a needle, but a jeweled blue needle.

In this issue... All-Star Project Grand Opening, Regional Field Day, Food Faire/Fashion Revue Wrap Up, County Presentation Day Results, Record Book Workshop, and much more.

Follow-up to Lynn Sosnoskie's 3/6/2012 UC Weed Science blog entry (http://ucanr.org/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=6967) Here's the NPR story "Farmers Face Tough Choice On Ways To Fight New Strains Of Weeds" (http://www.npr.

Nature's Gallery is absolutely spectacular. You may remember hearing about the UC Davis Art/Science Fusion Program project when it was displayed in the U.S. Botanic Garden in Washington, D.C. in the summer of 2007. Nature's Gallery drew raves then and it's drawing raves now.

Fair information, 4-H Camp Tehama information and link, Horse shows and much more...

Abstract: Farmers view weed management and the risk of lower yields as barriers to transition from conventional to organic agriculture. The 3 years of transition before organic certification can be used to implement strategies to suppress weeds and improve soil fertility.

This a link to an article in Western Farm Press about herbicide resistance in almond orchards. The article is a synopsis that Bob Curtis wrote about a presentation I made as part of a "What's new in Almond Pest Management" along with Drs.

The declining population of honey bees troubles us all.