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In this issue: Now is the Time to Consider Irrigated Pasture Renovations Turns Out - We are in a Drought! More Drought Information Drought Planning Decision Support Tool - Volunteers Needed! Shepherding Fire: Lessons from our Prescribed Fire on Working Landscapes Workshop A Few Tips for Hiring a Tar...

I was doing some gardening the other day and saw a bumble bee buzzing around as if in a frenzy. I didn't think it was looking for nectar or pollen because it was buzzing near the ground in an area of our garden that does not have flowers.

Article also published in California Weed Science Society Journal (March 2021 issue) -Brad Glyphosate is one of the most commonly used herbicides in orchard crops in California both in terms of treated acres and amount of active ingredient applied.

Reactive oxygen species (ROS) cause oxidative stress at the cellular level. Research shows that this way, amongst others, they inhibit the germination capacity of plants, produce cytotoxins or exert toxic effects on aquatic invertebrates.

Spring is here which brings thoughts of all the wonderful produce for the avid vegetable gardener. Of course, of all the produce that can be grown here in the Central Valley, the tomato may be the most popular crop grown in the back yard garden.

With a second year of below-normal rainfall, California is sliding into another drought cycle.

April showers bring June flowers, but spring also brings seminars about insects.

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This week has been a whirlwind. I almost missed posting. Between Program Council, annual review conversations and paperwork, and moving forward on Immunization Education and Small Farms opportunities, plus random other meetings, I am struggling to keep my to-do' list updated.

Many plant species are leafing out and flowering earlier in response to rising temperatures, and those that are not are declining at alarming rates in some circumstances, says urban landscape entomologist Emily Meineke of the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology in newly published resear...