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Back in October of 2020, we wrote about the newly published research of an international team of scientists involving the genome analysis of the western flower thrips, an invasive global agricultural pest that feeds on plants and spreads viruses.

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WORKSHOP ON ADAPTING FRUIT AND NUT PRODUCTION PRACTICES IN THE SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY TO CHANGING AND VARIABLE CLIMATE Date: Thursday, March 7th, 2024; 8:30 am - 2:00 pm Location: International Agri-Center (Social Room) 4500 South Laspina Street - Tulare, CA 93274 With: UC Davis, UC Merced, UCCE Tulare...

Dear Colleagues, Foundation for Food & Agriculture Research is soliciting pre-proposals for their Seeding Solutions grant program. Seeding Solutions encourages the development of unique partnerships that support innovative and transformative research focused on one of our Research Priority Areas.

Attached you will find the Agenda for our Vegetable Production and IPM Zoom Webinar to be held Thursday, February 28, 2024. The registration link is at the top. Hope you can join us.

Northwest of Los Angeles, springtime brings native wildflowers to bloom in the Santa Monica Mountains. These beauties provide food for insects, maintain healthy soil and filter water seeping into the ground in addition to offering breathtaking displays of color.

Yu-Chen Wang is a UC Cooperative Extension plant pathology advisor serving Santa Cruz, Monterey and San Benito counties. Wang, who joined UC ANR in 2022, studies diseases on vegetable and berry crops.

This is a great article on Stem Nematode management in the West. Stem Nematode has been a severe pest in some years throughout California's Central Valley and high mountain valleys.

A FREE, In-Person Presentation on Monarchs and Milkweed When: Sunday, March 3, 2024, 2:00-4:00 pm. Where: Santa Maria Library, 421 South McClelland St, Santa Maria, CA Registration Required and limited to 30 people.

ADDRESS CORRECTION! UC Master Gardeners of Santa Barbara County and the Buellton Community Garden present: Victory Vegetable Gardening Classes for the True Beginner, Spring 2024 When: Saturdays, March 9, 16, 23, & 30, 2024 What: This is a four (4) day class Location: Buellton Community Garden, 480 C...