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Fruit and Nut Trees for Coastal California

July 11, 2016
By Ben A Faber
It's possible to grown many other tree crops along the coast other than avocado and citrus. When speaking of other perennial evergreens like avocado, trees that don't lose their leaves but retain a canopy year round, we want trees that can handle the occasional cold periods that happen in winter.
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UC Rice Blog: Article

2016 Rice Yield Contest

July 8, 2016
By Bruce A Linquist
Do you think you have a good looking field of rice? Do you wonder how it might stack up against other fields? Well then join the 2016 UCCE Rice Yield Contest. This year we are expanding Yield Contest from Butte County to the whole Sacramento Valley.
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Irrigation! Irrigation! Irrigation! What Does that Mean?

July 7, 2016
By Ben A Faber
So after five years of drought a grower told me he finally gets it. Farming avocados in Goleta with limited well water and poor quality and expensive, rationed delivery, he has finally cut out trees that were not performing well. These were wind sept trees, areas with root and crown rot.
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UC Weed Science (weed control, management, ecology, and minutia): Article

New UCCE Vegetable Crops Advisor

July 6, 2016
By Gale Perez
Here's a little information on our NEW Vegetable Crops Farm Advisor Amber Vinchesi (pronounced Vincasey).
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Bug Squad: Article

Catch Me If You Can

July 6, 2016
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
Do they ever slow down? Not much. The male European wool carder bee (Anthidium manicatum), a yellow and black bee about the size of a honey bee, spends most of the day defending its "property" (food) from other visitors.
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'Double-Spined Murder Clamps' at the Ready

July 6, 2016
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
So here's this tiny praying mantis hovering over a spider's web in the bluebeard (Caryopteris clandonensis) in our pollinator garden. In the web are freshly caught prey, including a honey bee.
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Bug Squad: Article

How to Plan a Menu for a Crab Spider

July 5, 2016
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
Dear Crab Spider, Please don't eat the pollinators. You may help yourself to a mosquito, a crane fly, a lygus bug, an aphid, and a katydid, not necessarily in that order. And more than one if you like.
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