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The UCCE SJV Viticulture Newsletter, Vit Tips, is back with new team members on board! Please welcome Karl Lund, UCCE Madera, Merced, and Mariposa Counties Viticulture Advisor and Gabriel Torres, UCCE Tulare and Kings Counties Viticulture Advisor.

Friday, September 6, 2019 8:00am - 4:10pm (Registration begins at 7:30am) Hamilton Road Field (on West Hamilton Rd. between Hwy 99 & Riceton Hwy) and Rice Experiment Station, Biggs, CA The course will include a hands-on weed identification session on emerging and mature weeds.

Dairies produce lots of milk and manure. The ingenious dairymen of the Central Valley often use one to produce the other. They grow forage crops like alfalfa and corn that they then feed to their cattle.

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A boring problem that's generating big interest in southern California By Deena Husein, UCR Entomology, Ph.D.

Dont miss it--this class is always VERY Popular, so sign up NOW!...

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In this issue: Scouring Calves: Treatment Starts with Fluids Dry Cow Cooling Methods New Soils Advisor Alfalfa & Forage Field Day Meeting Strategies Compost Bedded Pack Barn UC Davis New Milk Parlor By-Products Survey Beef Semen Profitability...

In this issue: Wishing a Fond Farewell 2019 IPM Breakfast Meetings Preparing for Extreme Events: Freeze and Fire Increase your Return on Investment with Post Harvest Weed Scouting Fall and Winter Walnut Management Considerations Post-Harvest Almond and Walnut IPM Workshop Meeting Announcement...

Where are all the monarch butterflies? There's good news and bad news. First, the bad news: "An Epic Migration on the Verge of Collapse," wrote the Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation on its website detailing monarch conservation.