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Livestock & Range: Article

Cows Needed for Antimicrobial Study on August 29

August 13, 2019
By Devii R Rao
Gaby Maier is the UCCE Specialist for Beef Cattle Herd Health and Production at UC Davis . She is conducting a study looking at antimicrobial resistance in bacteria in the feces of mother cows and unweaned calves.
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photos by Launa Herrmann
Under the Solano Sun: Article

Caladium: easy-grow summer-bloom tuber

August 13, 2019
Looking to add summer color to a flower pot, window box, hanging basket or along a shaded walkway? Consider planting Palladium tubers in the spring.
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Cooperative Extension Ventura County: Article

Volume 28, Issue 1

August 13, 2019
Interim Sabbatical Report Arid land plants that may have horticultural value in California Meeting: Trees of the Chiricahua Mountains Biology, Ecology and Drought Adaptations.
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Lying in Wait--An assassin bug, Zelus renardii, lies in wait on a Mexican sunflower, Tithonia. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Bug Squad: Article

Assassins in The Garden

August 12, 2019
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
A pollinator garden is a study in diversity--and of inclusion and exclusion. The residents, the immigrants, the fly-bys, the crawlers, the wigglers, the jumpers. The big, bad and bugly. The prey and the predators. The vegetarians and carnivores.
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Ranching in the Sierra Foothills: Article

Coping with Smutgrass on Irrigated Pasture

August 12, 2019
By Daniel K Macon
Smutgrass (Sporobolus indicus) is a warm-season perennial grass native to the tropics. Since it is well-adapted to warm summer temperatures, we seem to be seeing more of it on foothill and Sacramento Valley irrigated pastures.
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