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Dear Colleagues, The Center for Produce Safety (CPS) will be accepting preliminary research proposals starting September 7, 2022. At that time, CPS will announce the 2022 research priorities, proposal development resources, and the application packet.

Free Hybrid Workshop Monterey County Rangeland Carbon Sequestration: Ranchers and Rangelands Are Part of the Climate Change Solution In-person space is limited.

Dear Colleagues, The California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA) is accepting applications to the 2023 Specialty Crop Block Grant Program (SCBGP). CDFA anticipates that up to $22 million will be awarded to projects enhancing the competitiveness of California specialty crops.

Last week President Biden announced an executive order to cancel up to $20,000 in federal student loan debt for all borrowers with an individual income below $125,000 ($250,000 for joint tax filers).

Several university weed scientists from around the U.S.

With drought and forecast for more of the same, it's time to think of alternative crops for our area. Pithecellobium dulce (translation: sweet monkey ear) may be a choice. Guamuchil is just one of the many names for this tree crop, including: monkeypod tree, camachile, and Madras thorn.

Do you agonize over whether a particular fruit is ready to pick? With the harvest season upon us, it pays to learn which fruits will ripen once picked, and which will not ripen beyond the stage that they had reached when harvested.

by Cynthia Kerson Being a UC Master Gardener of Napa County has many joys in volunteering to educate home gardeners. In between volunteering, our members decided to tour each others gardens during spring and summer months.

I am helping decorate for a 60th birthday party, we are talking western theme and flower arrangements. We are making them ourselves. I send a picture via text of my daylilies (Fig. 1), that I think would look good in the wine bottle centerpiece. This is the response I get: They're lethal to cats.

Hello, Friday Fly Day! It's time to post an image of syrphid fly, aka hover fly or flower fly. We took this dorsal view of a syrphid fly in January of 2009.