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David W. Cudney, UC Cooperative Extension specialist emeritus, passed away in Riverside on March 30. He was 82. Cudney joined UCCE in 1964 as a farm advisor for Imperial County. In 1978, he became a UCCE weed science specialist for Southern California, based at UC Riverside.

In This Edition 2- Committee & Council Mtgs. 2- Club Attendance Winner 2- Record Book Reminders 3- 4-H Fair 3- Sheep & Goat Camp 3- Color Me Green Run 4- Clover Fest 5- Summer Camp 5- 4-H Sheep & Goat Show 6- Horse Project Updates .

Did you know that California is home to more than 1600 species of undomesticated beesmost of them nativethat populate and pollinate our gardens, fields, and urban green spaces?--Source: California Bees and Blooms, a Guide for Gardeners and Naturalists.

Professor Irene Garcia Newton of the Indiana University Department of Biology, Bloomington, will present a UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology Seminar on "Friends with Benefits: Protective Microbial Symbiosis in the Honey Bee" on Wednesday, May 10.

Native bees will join the celebrated honey bees at the California Honey Festival. The annual event, free and family friendly, takes place from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Saturday, May 6 in downtown Woodland.

I recently harvested 'GEM' avocados and found that some of the fruit was splitting. The split fruit was just turning from a bright green to one with dark tinges. There were also gobs of snails and slugs on the fruit.

In This Issue New Orchard Advisor Walnut Management Considerations Healthy Orchards with a Careful Approach to Irrigation Thinking About Skipping or Shorting Nitrogen This Year? Prioritizing Sprays When You Cant Afford Them All Strategies for orchard weed management hard economic situations.

Regional Meat Supply Meeting | Roots of Change | Organic Livestock Parasite Study | Free Anaplasmosis Herd Testing | Forest Stewardship Workshop | Cone & Seed Collection Webinar | Forest Legacy Program Webinar | Top 10 Tools for New Forest Landowners | Preserving Forestland | Forest Stewardship Fiel...

The Hopland Research and Extension Center is situated on the traditional, ancestral and unceded lands of the Shqowa and Hopland People, whose historical and spiritual relationship with these lands continues to this day and beyond (for more on the Land and people history of the site, see this story m...

Effects of Elevated CO2 Concentrations of Yields of Agricultural Crops Friday, May 12, 2023 at 8:00am at the UCCE Kern County Office Field demonstration of commercial application following presentation See attached for details...