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'Pixie' mandarin is a very vigorous, upright tree. Although the fruit is small, hence its name, it can produce fruit on the ends of long branches which deform the canopy structure, making it hard to pick. The sweet, seedless fruit is worth picking, though.

UC Rice is now live on social media! We will be posting events that may be of interest to California rice and of course, lots of pictures of California rice country! Please follow us here: On Twitter: @UCRice On Facebook: @UCRice On Instagram: @UCRice...

Rice farmers in southeast Asia don't "have a rice day" when the dreaded brown planthopper is infesting their crops. The brown planthopper, Nilaparvata lugens, or BPH, is the economically most important rice pest in Asia.

A recent grower survey in Santa Barbara County asked a whole bunch of questions. One of which was had they had an evaluation of irrigation distribution uniformity. This is a free service that can significantly improve on-farm water use and most importantly improve plant health.

It promises to be...oh, so sweet! The inaugural California Honey Festival, to take place from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Saturday, May 6 on a four-block stretch in historic downtown Woodland, will draw folks from all over state and beyond. And it's free and open to the public.

The Western IPM Center's May 2017 newsletter just came out. The IPM VIDEO OF THE MONTH is on a robotic herbicide sprayer that targets weeds.

Back in May of 2013, we headed over to the California Center for Urban Horticulture (CCUH) Annual Rose Days on the University of California, Davis, campus. A cultivated yellow rose--Sparkle and Shine, related to the Julia Child Rose--caught our eye.

Male spotted wing drosophila adult. Photo by Gevork Arakelian, Los Angeles County Ag Commissioner's Office Spotted wing drosophila (SWD), Drosophila suzukii is a pest of several small fruit in California and other states.

Hi all,Just trying to get my head around some of the new big raster processors out there, in addition of course to Google Earth Engine. Bear with me (bare?) while I sort through these. Thanks for raster sleuth Stefania Di Tomasso for the leg work. 1. Geotrellis (https://geotrellis.

If a picture is worth a thousand words, what is a bug worth?