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• EPA Updates Process for Developing Maps to Protect Endangered Species

  Added December 19, 2024

  Press release from 12/19/24   EPA Updates Process for Developing Maps to Protect Endangered Species Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is taking another step to reduce potential impacts to farmers from implementing endangered...

• Can whole orchard recycling suppress weed establishment in new orchards?

  Added December 9, 2024
  

  by Becky Wheeler-Dykes, UCCE Glenn Orchard Systems and Weed Ecology Farm Advisor Recent research has shown many potential benefits of utilizing whole orchard recycling (WOR) when removing an orchard. Instead of burning the wood produced in orchard...

• Chemigation best practices for branched broomrape control in CA processing tomato

  Added December 9, 2024
  

  Branched broomrape (Phelipanche ramosa) is of growing concern to California tomato and specialty crop and seed producers. It is an obligate root holoparasite that gains all of its nutrients from the host crop and its unique biology means it spends the...