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New NRCS Staff: (left to right) Minshew, Rolfes, Zahangir and Komar
Conservation Agriculture: Article

CASI Updates New State NRCS Staff on Key Ongoing Workgroup Initiatives

August 22, 2016
By Jeffrey P Mitchell
Three relatively new USDA NRCS additions to the State Office, State Soil Scientist Tony Rolfes, State Agronomist Hudson Minshew, and Regional Soil Health Coordinator, Kabir Zahangir, along with Northern California NRCS Soil Scientist, Jim Komar, met with CASI Chair Jeff Mitchell on August 19th in th...
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2016 Innovator Award Reciepient Mike Winemiller
Conservation Agriculture: Article

2016 Conservation Agriculture Systems Innovation Center’s Farmer Technical Service and Farmer Service Award – Mike Winemiller

August 22, 2016
By Jeffrey P Mitchell
In 2005, the University of California and NRCS Conservation Tillage Workgroup, now the Conservation Agriculture Systems Innovation Center, established a series of Innovator Awards as a means for providing greater visibility to Conservation Agriculture pioneers in California.
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2016 Innovators Lasi Asgill (L) and Mike Winemiller (R).
Conservation Agriculture: Article

Asgill and Winemiller 2016 CASI Innovators

August 22, 2016
By Jeffrey P Mitchell
The CASI (Conservation Agriculture Systems Innovation) Center announced the first of its 2016 innovator awards in a recognition ceremony in Madera on the 16th of August.
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UC Weed Science (weed control, management, ecology, and minutia): Article

Trained rabbits control weeds in Hungary

August 22, 2016
By Guy Kyser
The Economist reports that Hungarian biologists have trained rabbits to preferentially eat common milkweed (Asclepias syriaca), an invasive plant (and a native to North America). http://www.economist.
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Topics in Subtropics: Article

Cellulase Production by Different Mulch Sources

August 22, 2016
By Ben A Faber
Biological control of Phytophthora cinnamomi in avocadothrough the use of mulches was identified by an Australian grower and later described as the "Ashburner Method" by Broadbent and Baker. The technique uses large amounts of organic matter as a mulch along with a source of calcium.
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Bug Squad: Article

From Caterpillars to Butterflies to Chronic Pain Research

August 19, 2016
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
"Science is full of surprises." Bruce Hammock, UC Davis distinguished professor of entomology who holds a joint appointment with the UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center, is fond of saying that in his many talks. "Science is full of surprises.
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Topics in Subtropics: Article

It's NOT Disease, it's Water

August 19, 2016
By Ben A Faber
A call from a small grower, surprised at the sudden decline of the avocado trees. It must be a disease was the grower's thought. Well driving up to the site, there were numerous trees with canopies indicating drought stress. In fact most of the trees looked like they had had the water turned off.
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Bug Squad: Article

Pretty in Pink--And in Other Colors, Too!

August 18, 2016
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
They're pretty in pink. Well, not just pink. All other colors, too. It's National Honey Bee Day on Saturday, Aug. 20. That's when we officially celebrate the honey bee, Apis mellifera, which the European colonists brought to the Jamestown colony in Virginia in 1622.
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