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Hello all, Please find the attached document to provide the previous weeks estimated water use report in terms of evapotranspiration for almonds, peaches, walnuts, established vineyard, alfalfa, and pasture in Stanislaus County.

Plants We Love By Jackie Woods UCCE Master Gardener Common name: Night Blooming Cactus, Golden Torch Cactus, Torch Cactus Latin name: Echinopsis spaciana Size of plant: 2 2 inches wide and as tall as 4 - 7 feet.

Katie Driver, a Ph.D. student in the Al-Khatib Lab at UC Davis, was awarded the 2018 D. Marlin Brandon Rice Research Fellowship. Katie's work focuses on controlling bearded sprangletop in California rice fields.

Do you want to learn more about home food preservation? Need and want to know more than just how to preserve your jam? Are you leery of some of the canning instructions on the web?

New Release from CDFA: SACRAMENTO, August 30, 2018 A portion of Sacramento and Yolo Counties have been placed under quarantine for the Oriental fruit fly following the detection of 15 flies in and around the southern part of the City of Sacramento near the Lemon Hill community.

A few years ago, I purchased a one-gallon plant from the Solano College plant sale. The label said Dorycinum hirsutum. I quickly planted it in my bare backyard and waited for it to grow. It's a slow growing plant and took several years to really show it's beauty and to reseed.

And doing it in the dark? In a recent paper, David Pattemore and associates reveal some fairly different observations about avocado flowering. One, that the female stage can be open and potentially receptive to pollination at night.

Just call them the "incredible aphid-eating machines." That would be the lady beetles, commonly known as ladybugs (although they are not bugs; they're beetles belonging to the family Coccinellidae, and they're not all "ladies"--some are male!).

WHAT WE NEED TO KNOW ABOUT STATE WATER EFFICIENCY AND ENHANCEMENT PROGRAM (SWEEP) FUND 2018 RESPIRATION RATE OF HOLSTEIN STEERS DURING HIGH AMBIENT TEMPERATURES PLANT GROWTH REGULATORS MAY SUPRESS DURUM WHEAT CROP LODGING IMPERIAL VALLEY CIMIS REPORT AND UC WATER MANAGEMENT RESOURCES COACHELLA VALLE...

Most people don't bond with spiders, but Jason Bond, the newly selected Evert and Marion Schlinger Endowed Chair in Insect Systematics in the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology, does.