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When agricultural advisors came to the Cochiti Pueblo in New Mexico during the 1940s, they lined the irrigation ditches with concrete, in the name of boosting efficiency and productivity.

UC Cooperative Extension will be hiring a Fire Advisor on the Central Coast: https://ucanr.edu/about/jobs/?jobnum=1934. The position will be headquartered in San Benito County (Hollister) and will also cover Santa Clara, Santa Cruz, and Monterey counties. Applications are due January 10, 2022.

Desert globemallow or apricot mallow (Sphaeralcea ambigua) is a local favorite, brightening the roadsides and hillsides of the Eastern Sierra region dependably every year.

We're off to a good start to the rainfall year! As farmers begin to turn attention to fall-planted small grains, be sure to check out UC's extension resources on the UC Small Grains Research and Information Center and the associated UC Small Grains Blog.

By Penny Pawl, UC Master Gardener of Napa County Fall and winter are great times to do sheet composting in your garden. So just what is sheet composting and what are the benefits? Some people call it smothering, sheet mulching or lasagna composting.

Is it a telephone pole? Is it giant asparagus? Just what is it? A few months ago these two agave plants started sending out these giant spears. They resembled asparagus spears. Agave is related to asparagus but a distant relative.

The CA Avocado Commission contracted with LandIQ to evaluate the extent of avocado plantings in the state. The planted area is down from close to 90,000 acres in 2000 to 51,000.

In This Edition 2- Council & Comm. Mtgs. 2- Giving Tuesday 2- Jr. Counselors Needed 3- 4-H Livestock Judge Contest 3- Horses from the Inside Out 4- Meet the Ambassador Team 4- Festive Food Faire 5- Livestock Achievement Prog.

You may have never seen a tadpole shrimp, but you ought to be concerned about it, especially if you like rice. It's neither a tadpole nor a shrimp, but a crustacean pest that feasts on rice seedlings in flooded rice fields.

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