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Cooperative Extension Ventura County: Article

Topics in Subtropics Spring 2025

June 25, 2025
By Lindsey Torres
TOPICS IN THIS ISSUE• Bifenthrin application added as an option to Fuller Rose Beetle Mitigation with Voluntary Sampling to Reduce Pesticide Application• Selective Egg Staining: a New Tool to Support Breeding of Whitefly Resistant Crops• Sunblotch! New Tools to Spot This SneakyAvocado Thief• The Avocado Cone…
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Mendocino County: Event

Redwood Fuels Mitigation Study Tour for Landowners

Event Date
Jul 12, 2025

   Join UCCE and CAL FIRE for a tour of the redwood fuels mitigation research project to talk about post-prescribed burn fire effects in different types of fuels treatments. The Redwood Fuels Mitigation research project is testing the benefits and tradeoffs of six different fuels…
Mendocino County
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Topics in Subtropics: Article

New Topics in Subtropics Newsletter

June 25, 2025
By Ben A Faber
Its out.  Check it out. The Spring edition of Topics in Subtropics quarterly newsletter covering all things subtropical at some point in time.  Bodil Cass, our entomology specialist at UC Riverside is the editor.Editor: Bodil Cass Spring 2025TOPICS IN THIS ISSUE• Bifenthrin application…
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Stanislaus County: Article

Evapotranspiration Report - 06/13/2025

June 25, 2025
By Sandi L Gudino
Please find the attached document to provide the previous week’s estimated water use report in terms of evapotranspiration for almonds, peaches, walnuts, established vineyard, alfalfa, and pasture in Stanislaus County. This report may be used as a guide in your irrigation schedule for the…
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Albert Einstein Memorial, Washington D.C.
Bug Squad: Article

In Support of Academic Research: Why Science Matters

June 24, 2025
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
 When UC Davis Distinguished Professor Walter Leal of the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology headed for Washington D.C. in April to be inducted into the National Academy of Sciences (NAS), he stopped by the Albert Einstein memorial, located at the corner of the NAS grounds.Leal read Einstein's…
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[PODCAST] Home Grown Tomatoes

June 24, 2025
By Loren Nelson
Home grown tomatoes! No doubt, most home gardeners’ tomato patches are well on their way. Today, on In the Garden with UCCE Master Gardeners, we go back many years and a few months for our only show on the topic of Tomatoes. Back in 2015, one of our OG In The Garden radio hosts, Mark Fierle, talked to…
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[PODCAST] Home Grown Tomatoes
UC Master Gardeners of Orange County: Event

[PODCAST] Home Grown Tomatoes

Event Date
Jun 25, 2025

Home grown tomatoes! No doubt, most home gardeners’ tomato patches are well on their way. Today, on In the Garden with UCCE Master Gardeners, we go back many years and a few months for our only show on the topic of Tomatoes. Back in 2015, one of our OG In The Garden radio hosts, Mark Fierle, talked to…
UC Master Gardeners of Orange County
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Walnut Fields in the Sacramento Valley
The Confluence: Article

How is SGMA affecting growers’ planting and drilling decisions?

June 24, 2025
By Ellen M Bruno
By Ellen Bruno and Nick Hagerty  California is now ten years into a revolution in groundwater management. In 2014, the state passed the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SGMA) which requires newly formed local groundwater sustainability agencies to develop long-term plans to reduce overdraft by…
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Controlled Burn Training
ANR Contracts & Grants Updates: Article

BLM Funding Opportunities – Fuels, Forests, Wildlife & Aquatics

June 24, 2025
By Kendra T Rose
The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has released several competitive funding opportunities for FY25. Below are a few highlighted programs of interest each with a submission deadline of July 23, 2025. For the complete list of current BLM funding opportunities, please visit Grants.gov and search using the…
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Tomato leaves with signs of Tobacco Mosaic Virus. Jack Kelly Clark, UC IPM Program
The Real Dirt: Article

A Virus in the Garden

June 24, 2025
Most gardeners are aware of plant diseases that can wreak havoc in their gardens. If you grow fruit trees, you may be confronted with curled, reddened peach leaves (peach leaf curl fungus). If you grow apples or pears, your trees may sometimes look like they were scorched with a blow torch (fire blight…
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