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An Insect You May Overlook

August 23, 2016
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
If you're walking along the cliffs of Bodega Head, Sonoma County, you may overlook them. While you're watching for whales, scouting for seabirds and checking out the hikers, there's a lot of movement in the seaside daises (Erigeron glaucus) and seaside woolly sunflower (Eriophyllum staechadifolium).
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UC Weed Science (weed control, management, ecology, and minutia): Article

California Ag Today

August 23, 2016
By Gale Perez
Here are a few articles from California Ag Today Mechanical Weeding Saves Labor http://californiaagtoday.com/mechanical-weeding-vegetables/ Tracking Herbicide Resistance in Weed Evolution http://californiaagtoday.
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Know Your Native Bees: Here's How!

August 22, 2016
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
Do you know your native bees? Can you distinguish a sweat bee from a leafcutting bee from a cuckoo bee from a mining bee? No sweat? Or, are you...ahem...sweating the answer? You can learn more about native bees at a special presentation on Saturday, Sept.
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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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