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The very fact that avocados can be grown in hard to get to places means that the trees are also in areas that are subject to wildfire damage. Recently several hundred acres of avocado burned in the foothills. The fire was fanned by high winds and low humidity.

Few people have seen California's state insect in the wild, but now thousands will this week--on TV. The California dogface butterfly, Zerene eurydice, and its Auburn habitat will be featured on KVIE Public Television's "Rob on the Road" show at various times throughout the week.

Have you ever received an email, text or postcard from vacationing family or friends with the lead sentence: "Wish you were here?

Grassland restoration has become increasingly popular because it can enhance biodiversity, pollinator habitat, wildlife habitat, and carbon sequestration.

1. Register for the Weedy Rice Workshop UC Cooperative Extension and the California Rice Commission are sponsoring this workshop to update growers and consultants on the current weedy rice situation in California and on research that is being conducted by the University of California.

Moth catches have come down considerably. Looks like the worst of the infestation has passed. There are still worms out in the field; keep an eye on late planted rice.

Weedy Rice Workshops 2017 August 9, 2017 :: 9:00 AM-12:00 noon New Earth Market Harvest Room 1475 Tharp Road, Yuba City, CA August 10, 2017 :: 9:00 AM-12:00 noon Colusa Casino 3770 Hwy 45, Colusa, CA In the workshops, University of California Cooperative Extension (UCCE) will give updates on the cur...

In the fall of 2016 growers in the Coachella desert have been experience very puzzling symptoms on their grapefruit trees. One incident, symptoms the tree had gumming oozing from the branches (Fig. 1). Usually if it were oozing from the stump it would be a root disease such as Phytophthora spp.

Esri has been holding these Imagery and Mapping Forum days prior to the main UC. I was here for the day, as an invited panelist for the Executive Panel and Closing Remarks session on Sunday.

As many of you are aware, many of our grass species in California rice are resistant to multiple herbicides. Late watergrass aka "mimic" (Echinochloa phyllopogon), early watergrass (E. oryzoides) and barnyardgrass (E.