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IN THIS ISSUE:

  • Kiwi Grower Meeting: Vine Cankers
  • 2025 Peach Harvest Timing
  • Why it’s important to thin peaches early
  • Mobile Irrigation Lab

Orchard Notes

A newsletter published by Janine Hasey, farm advisor for walnuts, peaches, kiwifruit, apricot, grape, nectarine, chestnut, pecan, pistachio, persimmon, fuelwood and Master Gardener Supervisor.

Orchard Notes - December, 2018

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24th Annual Sacramento Valley Cling Peach Day

Thursday, January 10, 2019
8:30am - Noon/Lunch: Noon - 12:45pm
Ag Building Meeting Room, 142 Garden Hwy, Yuba City

Meeting Includes: Laws & Regs/Pest Management, Industry Updates and Rootstock and Nutrition Management

Lunch will be served from 12:00pm to 12:45pm. 

PCA and Private Applicator Credit - 1.0 hr pending
CCA Credit - 2.0 hr approved
Nitrogen Management Continuing Education - .5 hrs pending

RSVP to the UCCE Sutter-Yuba Office at (530) 822-7515 or mlsearcy@ucanr.edu by Tuesday, January 8th if you plan to stay for lunch. 

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Cooperative Extension, Sutter-Yuba Counties

Orchard Notes - February 2019

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  • Walnut Day agenda
  • Walnut Field Meetings
    1. Walnut Canopy Management - topics will include hedging and whisking trails since 2016 for 11 year old Chandler planted in a hedgerow
    2. Walnut Training Systems - topics will include various walnut training systems  and see 2 and 3 year old Durham trees and 3 year old Solano trees, the two newest variety releases
    3. Walnut (6 year old) No Pruning (no heading)/Variation of No Pruning Grower Comparison Field Meeting
  • Field Meeting Map

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Cooperative Extension, Sutter-Yuba Counties

Sutter-Yuba-Colusa Walnut Day - Thursday, February 28, 2019 Email Extra

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Sutter-Yuba-Colusa

Walnut Day

Thursday, February 28, 2019

1:00 pm - 4:30 pm

Veterans Memorial Hall, 1425 Veteran's Memorial Circle, Yuba City

12:00 pm Registration

1:00 pm Welcome & Moderator

1:05 pm 2019 Pesticide regulation updates

2:30 pm - Break

2:50 pm - Working for the Future

3:35 pm - Irrigating walnuts with quality and cost savings in mind & Labor Saving strategies and 2018 field observations

4:30 pm - Adjourn

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Cooperative Extension, Sutter-Yuba Counties

Email Extra - Walnut Training Systems Field Meeting Date Rescheduled

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The Walnut Training Systems Field Meeting Date is Rescheduled due to rain predicted for March 5-7, 2019:

The Walnut Training Systems Field Meeting originally scheduled for Tuesday, March 5th in Wheatland with a back-up day of March 7th

HAS BEEN RESCHEDULED TO THE FOLLOWING:

Walnut Training Systems
Wednesday, March 13, 2019 | 10 am - 11:45
128 Nichols Road, Wheatland, CA 95692

IN THE EVENT OF RAIN or CONDITIONS ARE TOO WET, MEETING WILL BE HELD ON MARCH 15TH

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Cooperative Extension, Sutter-Yuba Counties

IPM Breakfast Meeting - Reschedule Information

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  • August 9, 2019 Yuba-Sutter-Colusa IPM Breakfast Meeting has been rescheduled for September 13, 2019 (8:00-9:30am). Meeting will be held at the Dancing Tomato Caffe in Yuba City (990 N Walton Ave, Yuba City, CA 95993).

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Cooperative Extension, Sutter-Yuba Counties

Email Extra - Walnut Canopy Management Field Meeting Date Change

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Meeting Date Change due to rain predicted for March 5-7, 2019:

The Walnut Canopy Management Field Meeting originally scheduled for Tuesday, March 5th with a back-up day of March 7th

HAS BEEN CHANGED TO THE FOLLOWING:

and will instead be presented during the:

Nickels Soil Lab Annual Field Meeting
Tuesday, May 7, 2019

The complete program announcement will be made in an upcoming "Orchard Notes" newsletter.

Please call our office at (530) 822-7515 if you have any questions. 

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Cooperative Extension, Sutter-Yuba Counties

Orchard Notes - February, 2018

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Sutter-Yuba-Colusa Walnut Day - February 22, 2018

Field Meetings on March 7, 2018:

  • Walnut Training Systems and Walnut Breeding Program Update
  • Walnut (5 year old) No Pruning (no heading) / Variation of No Pruning Grower Comparison
Cooperative Extension, Sutter-Yuba Counties

Walnut Training Systems Field Meeting is on for tomorrow March 13th

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Walnut Training Systems
Wednesday, March 13, 2019 | 10 am - 11:45
128 Nichols Road, Wheatland, CA 95692
 
We will discuss various walnut training systems, and see 2-year-old unheaded Durham trees, 4-year-old Chandler trees, and discuss 3-year-old Solano yields.
 
1.5 CCA credit (approved)
 
Questions: UCCE Sutter-Yuba Office at 530-822–7515 or look at the website for updated information at http://cesutter.ucanr.edu/
Cooperative Extension, Sutter-Yuba Counties

April IPM Breakfast Meeting - RSVP required

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April IPM Breakfast Meeting
Date & Time: Friday, April 12th, 8:00 - 9:00 am (*Note new start time this year*)
Location: Dancing Tomato Cafe (990 N. Walton Avenue, Yuba City, CA)
 
Join your local team of UC Cooperative Extension Farm & IPM Advisors to discuss current pest management and production issues in orchard crops. 
 
Space is limited - please RSVP to Emily Symmes at (530) 538-7201 or ejsymmes@ucanr.edu by April 11th to let us know you plan to attend.
Cooperative Extension, Sutter-Yuba Counties

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