Test PB Collection: FTE

It's one of the world's most important food crops. It's incredibly productive, and in Solano County it can grow almost year-round with some frost protection. In the home garden it's insanely easy to growwith the right conditions it's pretty much effortless. It's the potato.

UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology will be in the spotlight at the April 10-13 meeting of the Pacific Branch, Entomological Society of America (PBESA), to be held in the Hyatt Regency Sonoma Wine Country. Santa Rosa.

"Everyone at Lindcove REC is amazing to work with...their experience has helped us improve our techniques and identify new opportunities for leveraging technology to lower costs, enhance production, and improve the sustainability of crop production.

Coping with Rising Fertilizer Prices Richard Smith and Michael Cahn, UCCE Farm Advisors, Monterey County Growers have been affected by a near doubling in fertilizer prices between the summer of 2020 and the end of 2021. The last time that fertilizer prices had a similar spike was in 2008 (Figure 1).

Nutrition Policy Institute researchers will be sharing results from their latest studies at the upcoming Pediatric Academic Societies 2022 Meeting.

Under the blistering sun of Southern California's Imperial Valley, it's not surprising that subsurface drip irrigation is more effective and efficient than furrow (or flood) irrigation, a practice in which up to 50% of water is lost to evaporation.

Spring is here, and many native plants are coming into bloom. Orange California poppies color the roadside and hills. Redbuds burst with magenta flowers. Butterflies flutter among the blue dicks in grassy areas in upper Bidwell Park and along foothill roadsides.

Community event with plants for sale, vendors representing many areas of gardening interest and products.

In This Edition 2- Committee & Council Mtgs.

They're not exactly cute, cuddly little critters. Some folks say they look like miniature alligators or "ugly, spiky orange-and-black buggy thingies.