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Kern County: Article

Kern UCCE/DWR Weekly Crop Water Use Report 04-03-2023

April 4, 2023
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Roof top garden at the SPUR Center, Denver.
ANR Adventures: Article

WEDA and WAAESD meet in Denver

April 4, 2023
By Deanne Meyer
Ever wonder how Extension and Ag Experiment Directors share information? The Western Extension Directors Association (WEDA) and Western Association of Agricultural Experiment Station Directors (WAAESD) met in Denver last week.
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After several months of rain induced torpor, the Central Coast is jolted into action.
Strawberries and Caneberries: Article

Things are Hotting Up on the Central Coast

April 4, 2023
By Mark P Bolda
And BOOM the berry season is underway just a few days after the last rain. Most of the flood water has receded, and the industry is on the move. I'm getting pulled right along with it and already initiated two trials in the past two days, with plenty more coming.
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Lexie Martin of the Rachel Vannette lab
Entomology & Nematology News: Article

Record: Four Students in Department Win Highly Competitive NSF-GRSP Fellowships

April 4, 2023
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
Three doctoral students and one undergraduate student in the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology are winners of highly competitive fellowships from the National Science Foundation's Graduate Research Fellowship Program (NSF-GRFP) grants, a record high achievement for the department.
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Eucalyptus. photos by Karen Metz
Under the Solano Sun: Article

Camellia Grove

April 4, 2023
The middle of March my husband and I were in Sacramento to see a concert at the Safe Credit Union Center for the Performing Arts. We had arrived just a little early and decided to walk around the block till the venue opened.
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Figure 1. Dose–responses curves of branched broomrape and Egyptian broomrape seed germination in response to doses of three different ammonium products under three exposure durations of 10 minutes, one hour, and 24 hours. A three-parameter logistic model (Eq.1) was fitted to germination data. Lines are fitted values, and solid circles indicate observed germination averaged across two experimental runs with three replicates each (i.e., n =6). Error bars indicate 95% confidence intervals. Model parameter esti
UC Weed Science (weed control, management, ecology, and minutia): Article

Farm machinery sanitation: a way to reduce broomrape seed spread among fields

April 3, 2023
By Brad Hanson
California is the largest producer of processing tomato in the US (Winans et al. 2020). However, the profitability of the tomato industry in California is seriously threatened due to the presence of the parasitic weed branched and Egyptian broomrape (https://ucanr.edu/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.
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