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November 10, 2021 Sobering findings in reduced soil disturbance organic vegetable production farm evaluations For the past three years, a group of experienced organic vegetable farmers along with several University and private sector partners has been evaluating a host of reduced tillage or soil dis...

November 10, 2021 Fresno State Plant Science researchers begin year 5 of cover crop roller study New paradigms for crop production are being tested in what has now evolved to be the fifth straight year of research by Fresno State researchers on the use of a roller crimper to kill winter cover crops...

Become a UC Master Food Preserver! The San Joaquin County UC Master Food Preserver Program is now accepting applications for our 2022 training. The application deadline is December 17, 2021.

UC ANR's IT team worked tirelessly on emergency migrations to get all web applications and websites back up and running while addressing reported glitches. It is a very manual process as some of these applications are over 15 years old.

Halloween is over, but the misinformation spread about spiders never will be. Some folks just despise spiders. A Facebook post that went viral has resulted in USA Today setting the record straight today (Nov. 9) by conferring with UC Davis arachnologist Jason Bond.

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In this issue: Using N-Rich Reference Zones in Wheat to Guide Fertilizer Management Field Corn Variety Trial Variety Results Look out for Thousand Cankers Disease in Your Walnut Orchard 2021 Delta Rice Recap Managing Fusarium falciforme Vine Decline of Tomato UC ANR Announcements/ Calendar of Events...

Postdoctoral scholar Fatemeh Ganjisaffar of the Frank Zalom lab, UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology, will present a virtual seminar on Wednesday, Nov. 10 on "Addressing an Evolving Invasive Species Crisis: Insecticide Resistance Management and Behavioral Control of Drosophila suzukii.

The Blue Potato Bush is the name of this bush, the botanical name is Lycianthes rantonnetii, family Solanaceae. This plant was once believed to belong to the Nightshade family. When researching, I found different theories. Some say it does belong, but others say it does not.