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Rain in May, especially in the amounts we have seen this year are far from ideal for rice growers. It makes establishing seedling, N management and weed control extra challenging. Rain in May is not new. In 1995, 1996, 1998, 2005 average May rainfall in the Sacramento Valley was 2.

Hear that buzz? Today is World Bee Day! We celebrate honey bees every day, but they are especially celebrated on May 20, World Bee Day. It's an annual day to raise awareness about the importance of bees and beekeeping.

[Reblog from Pests in the Urban Landscape] If you were to ask an audience of more than a few people if they or anyone they know has ever seen or been bitten by a brown recluse spider in California, many hands would be raised.

Thank you to the 384 people who participated in the internal communications survey that closed Friday. Congratulations to Sara van Tol for winning the Starbucks gift card drawing. We'll send the gift card to Sara right away.

Try topping your salads with some tasty garbanzo beans this summer.

Plants lose water through their leaves and it's called transpiration. People lose water off their skin and it's called evaporation or sweating. When a plant stops losing water and when people cant produce enough sweat to cool off, both overheat.

World Bee Day https://www.un.org/en/events/beeday/ And more things to learn in this slide set https://www.slideshare.

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My husband and I got up very early one Saturday morning to attend a lengthy meeting indoors at an office building in downtown Sacramento.

Urban agriculture at The Huntington Ranch Garden is the topic of this week's In the Garden with UC Master Gardeners. MG and KUCI staff host Dece Morgan visited the gardens and talked to the staff about this classroom/research labs facility.