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Stuart Styles, director of irrigation training and research center at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo will discuss key irrigation topics relevant to California avocado growers.

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Slugs, snails, ants, aphids, spider mites and inclement weather conspire against strawberry growers harvesting perfect red berries to sell. Farming is hard work, said Fam Lee, as she pulled a weed from a row of strawberry plants.

It's rose season in the Owens Valley. Every yard in my neighborhood is full of blooms. Among all the cheery white, pink, yellow and red blossoms atop nice straight stems you can often find our most common cultivar of rose, 'Dr.

"It ain't so much the things we don't know that get us into trouble, it's the things we do know that just ain't so."--American humorist Artemus Ward (1834-1867).

VCLH nymphs began to emerge on May 14th, 2018 This season we will once again be monitoring the development of Virginia creeper leafhopper, VCLH, (Erythroneura ziczac) and Western grape leafhopper, WGLH, (Erythroneura elegantula) populations in Mendocino County Chardonnay vineyards.

It's getting hot and dry in the Central Valley and the movement of equipment in and out of fields/orchards/vineyards has the potential to stir up a significant amount of dust. Among its other impacts to agriculture (soil erosion, tissue damage, reduced photosynthesis, etc...

What: The use of biochar in agriculture is a topic that has been generating interest across California. New products are being developed for agricultural applications, and new research on the effects of biochar in cropping systems is underway at many universities.

On as recent family vacation to The Big Island of Hawaii, I got to participate in one of the things I love most about travel; finding new plants, especially new blooming one's. All of the following plants were seen on a short hike at Akaka Falls State Park outside of Hilo.