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BEST WATER AND NITROGEN MANAGEMENT PRACTICES IN THE LOW DESERT CARROTS: A PRELIMINARY ASSESSMENT MAY 2021 CATTLECAL NEWSLETTER UPDATE DESERT INSV WORKSHOP - SAVE THE DATE MANAGEMENT SILVERLEAF WHITEFLY ON MELON CROPS IMPERIAL VALLEY CIMIS REPORT AND UC WATER MANAGEMENT RESOURCES...

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Wine grape growers in California and elsewhere face increasing labor costs and severe labor shortages, making it difficult to manage and harvest a vineyard while maintaining profitability.

Red Tail Hawks Buteo jamaicensis We have the pleasure of having red tail hawks near our house. Every year around November the Red Tail hawks show up for a visit. Sometimes they stay through the winter but most years they don't.

Please see below link to access "How To Use Weekly Crop Water Use (ET) Reports to Assist Farm Water Management" How To Use Weekly Crop Water Use Report Please see below link to access "Weekly ET Report 05-31-2021" ET Report 06-07-2021 Please see disclaimer link below: University of California Divisi...

In this issue: Growing Cut Flowers Unusual Edibles: Sorrel Container Gardening Garden Design: Where to Start?

You hear it every time drought returns to California: Turn off the faucet when you brush your teeth. Collect shower water in a bucket before it warms up.

Communications Director Cornell University Wines and table grapes exist thanks to a genetic exchange so rare that it's only happened twice in nature in the last 6 million years. And since the domestication of the grapevine 8,000 years ago, breeding has continued to be a gamble.

Use compost, not chemicals This is the second post in this series following concepts and information from UC Master Gardeners of Napa County presentation, Soil is the Solution, healing the earth one yard at a time, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqA8DqBtRuo .

Watergrass We are having more and more difficulties controlling watergrass over the past 20 or so years. We know that as of the early 2000s, we had found multiple-herbicide resistant late watergrass (also known as mimic), as well as multiple-herbicide resistant barnyardgrass.