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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.

Tobin Hammer, assistant professor of ecology and evolutionary biology, UC Irvine, will give an in-person and virtual seminar on Wednesday, April 13 to the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology on "Mystery of the Missing Microbes: Why Do Bees Keep Losing Their Symbionts?

Reposted from UC News Climate disruption has arrived, bringing challenges that once seemed unimaginable: wildfires so large and hot that they create their own weather, record-breaking heat waves and a vanishing Sierra snowpack.

Upcoming Events 4-H Record Book/Forms County Presentation Day County Fashion Revue YQCA Training Home Ec Field Day 2022 4-H Beekeeping Essay Contest Club News State Fashion Revue: Update 4-H Regional Presentation Day 2022 Lassen County 4-H Job Interview Registration for all State Field Day...