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Paraquat Regulation Update Alternatives to Paraquat Chlorpyriphos Regulations and Alfalfa Weevil Resistance Aphids Alfalfa Weevils...

I received an e-mail from OSU (The Ohio State University) Weed Management on a free webinar series. The USB Take Action initiative and university weed scientists across the region have developed a free webinar series covering various weed and herbicide management issues.

How to Plant California Natives California natives are wonderful plants to have in the garden. They don't need a lot of maintenance once they are established. What they do need, is the appropriate installation to get them going and make them happy. Natives do not like to be fertilized.

National Public Radio highlighted a growing concern for San Joaquin Valley tree fruit and nut farmers - diminishing winter chill in an age of climate change. "Warm winters mess with nut trees' sex lives," reported Lauren Summer on Morning Edition.

Have you read The Princess and the Pea written by Hans Christian Anderson? If so, you know from the story only a princess would be so sensitive as to feel a pea under twenty mattresses and twenty eider-down beds.

Evolutionary biologist Mercedes Burns of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, should draw a large crowd when she discusses her research on the evolutionary biology of sex and sexual conflict of harvesters or "daddy-longlegs.

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The University of California invites comments on a proposed Presidential Policy: Gender Recognition and Lived Name.

I hope everyone enjoyed the warm weather over the 3-day weekend. I spent a fair bit of time outside getting the gardens ready for spring. All my plants need now is rain.

County Presentation Day Still Time to sign-up, Summer Camp, 4-H Fling, Countywide Birding Project, Countywide Pigeon Project and much more!...