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Can we improve our soil and manage insect pests with techniques that slow and maybe even ultimately reverse the human damage to natural resources? Practices that started innocently enough to improve and simplify food production have turned into a huge problem.

In this issue: Troubleshooting Dry Matter Results Want Alternative Manure Management Information?

I found so many things; I found a hermit crab, a starfish, a sea anemone, exclaimed a Cherryland Elementary School student, his voice trailing off as he ventured back to the tide pools to explore more.

Monitoring California red scale populations by using pheromone traps and degree days California red scale is an armored scale that attacks all citrus varieties.

Good morning. The quarterly reports this last week of two of America's best big box retailers, Walmart and Target, rocked the stock market not only for their disappointing results but also for the dim view they described of the retail environment in general.

In keeping with the Patrick Ranch Museum's mission to enhance people's understanding and appreciation of our community's rich agricultural heritage, a half-acre plot planted in heirloom almond varieties is situated between the Museum's entry road and the Master Gardener Demonstration Garden.

In commemoration of Asian Pacific American Heritage Month in May, you are invited to attend a special virtual presentation, "Stories in Seeds: Asian American Identity as Rooted in Heirloom Crops," by Kristyn Leach of Namu Farms and Second Generation Seeds.

I had the picture below sent to me just this morning by Joji Muramoto and student assistant Cole Margarite of an unusual discovery they made while picking strawberries. In the photo provided by Cole below, that cluster of round white objects stuck to the side of the berry are stink bug eggs.

UC Davis distinguished professor James R. Carey will speak on "The Conceptual Sweep of a Mathematical Discovery in Insect Biodemography: From Medfly Populations to the U.S. Congress" at the Wednesday, May 25th seminar hosted by the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology.

UC Master Gardeners UC ANR Giving Day is happening now! Join us online until noon tomorrowFriday, 5/20as we highlight the impact of our program across the state. donate.ucanr.