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UC Cooperative Extension will host the SJC and Delta Field Crops Meeting on Friday, January 12, 2018 from 8:00am to 12:00pm. The meeting location is the Cabral Agricultural Center in Stockton (2101 E.Earhart Ave., Stockton, CA 95206).

At a recent meeting for current and prospective avocado growers near Visalia, Yosepha Shahak a retired researcher from Israel's Volcani Institute presented information on photo-selective netting.

Aerial drones are cool. But they can't do everything (just yet). Here are a couple tidbits of information you should consider if you are thinking about getting one (or more) to help you with your weed scouting or plan to use it for herbicide application.

The USDA's Farm Service Agency and Natural Resources Conservation Service will have workshops to aid agricultural producers; including cattle, tree, nursery, vegetable, and berry farmers in filing for federal assistance programs.

Time is ticking...

The Huntley College of Agriculture is hosting an Inaugural Industry Coffee Summit on January 18th at the AgriScapes Outreach Center located on the campus of Cal Poly Pomona.

If you're into insects--who isn't?--and want to support the Bohart Museum of Entomology at the University of California, Davis, here's how: join the Bohart Museum Society, the supporting arm of the museum.

To: Industry Members Impacted by Recent Wildfires and Santa Ana Winds It's important that California avocado industry members who have been impacted by the recent wildfires and/or Santa Ana winds contact their crop insurance agent within 72 hours of the event to determine possible applicable coverag...

Talk about UC Davis connections! When UC Davis emeriti professors of entomology Peter Cranston and Penny Gullan of Canberra, Australia, attended the International Conference on Natural Resources in the Tropics in late November in Sarawak (Malaysian Borneo) at Sibu and Kapit on the Rajang River, they...

The destruction after a fire can be pretty gruesome and sad. Many times, though the fire moves through the orchard so fast that, even though the canopy has turned brown, there is a good chance the trees can come back. It all depends on how much damage has been done to the trunk.