Newsletter

In this issue:

• Pre- & Post Harvest Almond Orchard Considerations
• Timing Almond Harvest in 2024
• First Hull Split Spray: Timing and Practice
• Monterey Maladies and the Need for Careful Irrigation Management
• New Orchard Team Member!

In This Issue:

• Preharvest Orchard Considerations
• Pest Reports Available Online
• IPM on a Budget
• New Staff Research Associate

Click download for both documents

• UC Pre-hull split field meeting agenda
• First Hull-Split Spray: Timing and Practice

IN THIS ISSUE:

• Nickels Field Day Agenda
• Almond Management Considerations
• Pest Management for Shothole and Scab
• Navel Orangeworm Updates
• Disease management decisions in low-income years

In This Issue of the Sacramento Valley Walnut News:

• Winter Walnut Management Resources
• 2024 Meetings
• Winter Chill, Dormancy and Walnut Management
• Fungicide Efficacy

In This Issue:

• Save the Dates!
• Almond Orchard Management Considerations
• Efficacy of a Hull split spray vs. Sanitation for NOW Control
• Wet winter concerns: Phytophora and waterlogging
• Winter sanitation critical for reducing insect pest damage risk to almonds in 2023-2024
• Preventing Bacterial Blast Damage in 2024
• Almond Fungicide Efficacy
• January 30th Almond meeting announcements included

In This Issue of the Sacramento Valley Prune News - Fall, 2023

• Save the Dates!
• Fall Prune Orchard Management Considerations
• Canker Management after Pruning/Hedging: Spray Now or Pay Later
• Replanting Prunes Back into Prunes
• Gear Up, Throttle Down to Control Pests, Spray Drift, and Costs
• Prune Brownline Alert
• New Orchard Advisor Introduction

In This Issue:

• Save the Dates
• Post-Harvest Almonds Orchard Considerations
• Be Careful with Almond Variety Rootstock Selection
• Plant cover crops now to prepare for another wet winter
• Reality Check
• Planning for big crop in tight times
• Bacterial blast/canker: What do we know?

In This Issue:

• Meeting Save the Dates
• Trees-to-tomatoes
• Walnut Variety Trial Introduction
• New Advisor Introduction

Submitted by:

Clarissa Reyes, UCCe Farm Advisor, Sutter, Yuba, Butte, and Placer Counties

In This Issue:

• New Summer Management Considerations
• New Orchard Advisor!

In This Issue:

• Pre- & Post Harvest Almond Orchard Management Considerations
• NOW hullsplit spray considerations
• Don't Neglect Your Boron
• Spring 2023 retrospective: Bacterial Blast
• New Orchard Advisor!

In This Issue:

• Nickels Soil Lab Field Day - May 18, 2023
• Almond Orchard Management Considerations
• Strategies for orchard weed management in hard economic situations
• Navel Orangeworm Biofix in a Wet Spring
• Dial-in spray coverage for cost-effective spraying

In This Issue:

• Prune Meetings
• Bloom 2023 Prune Orchard Considerations
• Mechanical Pruning Trial in 'French' Prune - Through Year Four
• Bloom weather and prune fruit set: what we know so far.
• Fungicide Efficacy

Upcoming Meetings:

January 18, 8am to 12pm - South Sacramento Valley Almond Grower Meeting, Arbuckle*

January 18, 1pm to 5pm - South Sacramento Valley Almond Grower Meeting, Woodland*

January 19, 7am to 1pm - North Valley Nut Conference, Chico*. Register at:  www.myaglife.com/events 

*see agendas in this newsletter

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In This Issue:

• Upcoming Meetings
• Almond Orchard Management Considerations
• Save The Date - Nickels Field Day - May 18th
• Vegetation for Infiltration
• Disease Management in Tight Budget Year
• Rootstock Selection to Increase Tree Health, Longevity, and Yield
• Almond Grower Meeting Agendas
• North Valley Nut Conference
• Agenda
• Almond Efficacy

Please help support the Nickels Soil Lab in Arbuckle, Colusa Co.

Info/donate at: https://myaglife.com/fundraiser/

In This Issue:

• Almond Orchard Management Considerations
• Management Practices for Improved Water Capture
• 2022 Almond Season IPM Reflections
• UC IPM Air Blast Sprayer on-line calibration course
• Time for a Hard Look
• Upcoming Orchard meetings
• New IPM Advisor Introduction

Register Now!

• Upcoming Orchard Meetings
• Orchard Considerations
• Battle Back Against Cankers Before They Kill Your Trees!
• New prune varieties show promise in reducing fruit drying costs
• New IPM Advisor
• Follow us on Twitter!

In This Issue of Sacramento Valley Walnut News-

• Time for a Hard Look
• Upcoming Orchard Meetings
• Walnut Management Considerations
• Six Steps to Prepare for the Next Sudden Autumn Freeze
• New IPM advisor introduction
• NOW pre- & post-harvest
• Follow us on Twitter!

In This Issue:

• Almond Orchard Management Considerations
• When do you shake almonds?
• Protecting Sacramento Valley Waterways from Pyrethroid Exceedances
• Is it time for a closer look at alternative nutrient sources?

In This Issue:

• Almond Management Considerations: Spring & Early Summer
• Irrigating Freeze Damaged Almonds in a Drought
• Fertilizing Almonds after a Frost
• Staff Research Associate Introduction
• Nickels Soil Lab Annual Field - May 10th

Nickels Soil Lab Annual Field Day

Tuesday, May 10, 2022 - 8:30 a.m.

Greenbay Rd., Arbuckle, CA 95912

Please see attached for agenda, location map and make your lunch reservation to support Pierce High School FFA program.

Guest lunch time speaker: Jerry Brown, Executive Director, Sites JPA

**What are your top 3 questions on the Sites Reservoir Project? Please take a moment and complete this survey. Thank you!

Updated Agenda & Directions for Wednesday/Thursday Prune Research Tour 

Please find attached an updated agenda for the two-day tour UC Prune Research Tour that will start tomorrow morning at 8:30 AM at the UCCE Sutter-Yuba office. 142 Garden Hwy, Yuba City, CA. Coffee and donuts provided! 

Contact: Franz Niederholzer (530) 218-2359 or Luke Milliron (530) 822-6999 with questions. 

Thanks to the CA Prune Board and Sunsweet for sponsoring. 

In This Issue:

• Walnut Management Considerations
• Walnut Blight Management Update
• Selecting the Best Walnut Rootstock for Your Situation
• Walnut fungicide and bactericide efficacy tables
• Tree and Vine Crop Herbicide Chart
• Follow us on Twitter!

Please see agenda for all information. Also, please note that continuing education hours are only for day 1 of the series.

South Sacramento Valley Winter Almond Meeting

Co-sponsored by Colusa County Ag Commissioners Office

New location: Rominger Farms Shop/Huller

7016 Harrington Ave., Arbuckle, CA 95912

January 20, 2022

8:00 am -12:30 pm

See attached for agenda

Please see attached for details.

In This Issue:

• Fall Almond Orchard Management Considerations
• UCCE Central Valley Pistachio News
• New Advisor Introduction
• Climate & Management Considerations for Future Almond Orchards
• Preparing for 2022
• Announcing the new UC Almond Cover Crop Best Management Practices

In This Issue:

• Walnut Freeze damage Survey
• Tree Crop IPM
• Walnut Freeze Webinar
• Orchard Management Considerations
• Five Steps to Prepare for the Next Sudden Autumn Freeze
• Fall Walnut IPM
• New Advisor Introduction
• New UCCE Central Valley Pistachio News
• Follow us on Twitter!

In This Issue:

• Pre- & Post-Harvest Almond Orchard Management Considerations
• Almond Hull Split Spray Considerations in a Tight Fiscal Year
• Ant Management
• Maintaining Quality Pick Up & Stockpiling Best Practices
• Volunteers needed for UC Davis study on glyphosate & herbicide selections.

Almond Boron Rootstock Field Day

Tuesday, July 13, 8am-10am

Southeast Corner of I-505 and County Road 19 Click for Map

(North of Madison and West of Woodland)

Thinking about developing a new almond orchard in a high boron setting? Picking the wrong rootstock when water or soil is high in boron (<1 ppm) can endanger tree health and orchard yields.

UC ANR, UC Davis and the Almond Board of California have been working for the last decade to evaluate the best options in high boron settings to sustain yields while making use of sub-optimal water and soil.

Come join UCCE Orchard Advisor Kat Jarvis-Shean & UC Davis Professor Patrick Brown to see with your own eyes nine different rootstock options and talk through the ten years of data we've gathered to evaluate their merits.

The event is free, but please register below to help our planning.

There are no CE credits associated with this event.

Register for the Almond Boron Rootstock Field Day

Tuesday, June 1, 2021

Marine Ave, Arbuckle, CA - see attached for map

Early bird special - 7:30 am - Almond density trial. See attached for more details.

Registration - 8:30 am - Coffee and donuts - generously provided by Colusa-Glenn Farm Credit

Regular meeting agenda announced-

• Weed management in young almonds
• Whole orchard recycling (WOR): soil quality results
• Whole orchard recycling (WOR): fertilization recommendations
• Managing young almond plantings on vigorous rootstocks
• Plant options
• Irrigation efficiency in a drought year: making the most of what you have
• Mating disruption for navel orangeworm
• Orchard cover crops for weed-suppression and other functions
• BBQ tri-tip lunch, $20, benefits Pierce High School FFA program
• Luncheon speaker: Mel Machado, Blue Diamond Growers, Inc.

Please see attached for all details regarding the meeting.

Mark your calendars!

Nickels Soil Lab Annual Field Day - June 1st!

Lunch reservation due soon!

Please see the attached for information. Full agenda coming soon!

In This Issue:

• Almond Orchard Management Considerations
• Almond May Spray Considerations in a Tight Fiscal Year
• Irrigating with lower quality water? What to consider first.
• Lean Price Year Nutrient Management
• New Staff Research Associate
• Almond Herbicide Chart

In This Issue:

• UCCE Virtual Walnut Series
• Orchard Management Considerations
• New walnut variety 'UC Wolfskill' released
• Pulling the trigger for the start of irrigation in the spring: Too much too soon for walnuts?
• New Staff Research Associate Introduction
• Tree and Vine Crop Herbicide Chart - Updated 2021

Sacramento Valley Almond News - Final Bloom, 2021 Contents:

• Almond Orchard Management Considerations
• Early Season Irrigation: Do We know When to Start?
• Hive Strength and Bee Health/Safety
• Bloom season specific sprayer calibration saves money and time
• What new research into carbohydrates is teaching us about California orchards
• Almond Fungicide Efficacy

Dear Sacramento Valley Orchard Growers and PCA's:

There will be no in-person UCCE orchard grower meetings this winter due to COVID. However, there will be excellent programs offering CE units via Zoom from a comfortable chair in your own home/office.

• January 12-13 Statewide Pistachio Day
  • Registration (required): https://ucanr.edu/sites/pistachioday/
  • Fee: $40 before Jan 11, $50 after Jan 11
  • CE hours: DPR (just 1/13); CCA and CURES
  • Agenda at: https://ucanr.edu/sites/pistachioday/Agenda/

• January 14 San Joaquin Valley Almond Day
  • Registration (required): https://ucanr.edu/survey/survey.cfm?surveynumber=32644
  • Fee: $10 before Jan 11, $15 after Jan 11
  • 5 CE hrs (“other”) confirmed.
  • Agenda is available at the registration website.

• January 20 Sacramento Valley Almond Meeting
• Registration (required): https://ucanr.edu/survey/survey.cfm?surveynumber=32679
• No fee: CE units (PCA and CCA) requested.
• Agenda is available at the registration website. Topics/speakers include:
  • Fungal and bacterial diseases of leaves and nuts/Adaskaveg
  • Canker diseases/Trouillas
  • Navel orangeworm management/Wilson
  • Irrigation monitoring/Shackel
  • New variety trial (Chico site) update/Milliron

• February 16-17 Statewide Walnut Day (info pending)

• Februay 24 Statewide Prune

• Post-Harvest Almond Orchard Management Considerations
• Orchard sanitation is key to a quality crop
• Almond Leaf Scorch
• Irrigation/Water Advisor Retires

• Fall Walnut Orchard Management Considerations
• Tree and Orchard Replanting Considerations in a Lean Price Year
• Walnut Cultivar Table
• Selecting the Right Clonal Walnut Rootstock for Managing Soil and Pest Problems
• Allan Fulton, Irrigation/Water Advisor Retires

First up on the continuing education virtual webinars -

Franz Niederholzer, UCCE Orchard Systems Advisor speaking about "Almond IPM from a Sacramento Valley Perspective" - Wednesday, September 9th at 3:00 p.m.

CEC Credits approved!

REGISTER NOW:

http://ucanr.edu/syc-uccevirtualwebinars

 Sutter-Yuba-Colusa

UCCE Virtual Webinars

Join us in our first series of virtual webinars

COLUSA COUNTY AGRICULTURE DEPARTMENT
Commissioner Greg Hinton Phone: 530-458-0580
100 Sunrise Blvd. Suite F Fax: 530-458-5000
Colusa, CA 95932 Email: ccag@countyofcolusa.com

PRESS RELEASE
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
July 30, 2020

Contact: Colusa County Agricultural Commissioner’s Office

Mysterious and Unsolicited Seed Shipments Arriving in Colusa County
The California Department of Agriculture (CDFA) has become aware of a number of reports regarding “mysterious and unsolicited seed shipments from China.” These shipments have been arriving at homeowner and business locations throughout the country, including here in Colusa County. The package contents typically list the contents as jewelry, toys, or a number code.

The CDFA is currently in communication with the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) to determine what the actions will be for these seed packages. In the meantime, CDFA is instructing residents not to open any unsolicited seed packets received. In addition, please DO NOT PLANT or dispose of the seeds. Instead, please immediately contact the Colusa County Agricultural Commissioner’s Office if you come into possession of these unsolicited seeds, and we will arrange to pick up the seeds or you may drop them off at our office.

Seeds that are legally sold to residents of California must go through proper channels in order to protect California’s multi-billion dollar agricultural industry. Colusa County is one of California’s significant seed producing locations. Seeds with unknown origin and those that have not been properly inspected, treated, or tested may have a significant impact on our local industry and ag based economy.

If you have received these seeds, please contact our office via the options below to arrange for delivery or pick up. If you have planted

Register today to learn about  Establishing Nut Crop Orchards from experts with the University of California and USDA.

• Different topics will be presented during each session
• $10 registration fee will allow you to attend any or all of the sessions
  • July 29, 3-5pm
    
  • August 5, 3-5pm
  • August 12, 3-5pm
• CEUs have been obtained from CCA for all 3 sessions and have been applied for from CA DPR for Aug. 5 (1.0 Other)

For more information on registration, contact anrprogramsupport@ucanr.edu, 530-750-1361 or for course content, contact Phoebe Gordon, pegorden@ucanr.edu, Orchard Crops Farm Advisor, UCCE Madera (detailed agenda at //  ucanr.edu/sites/PSU/files/329744.pdf) 

• Pre-Harvest Walnut Orchard Management
• Managing Mold in Walnut
• Ethephon in Straggled Leaf-Out, Lean Price Year
• Managing walnut orchards for insect-eating birds
• Advisor Farewell

In this issue, you will find:

• Almond Orchard Management Considerations
• Hull Split Hull Rot Management
• Maintaining Quality with Pick Up and Stockpiling Best Practices
• Naval Orangeworm Management Considerations
• Ant Management is Especially Important in a Heavy Crop Year

Request for help from PCAs regarding class review

May 27, 2020

Help, please.

I’m looking for a few experienced PCAs or growers/managers to watch an on-line class for airblast sprayer calibration training and give it a quick review.  The class has to be up and running smoothly by Sept. 1 and to do so we need to get reviews by people who are potential users (PCA’s, growers, etc) by June 1 .

What’s involved?

• Take a short pre-test (10 questions, T/F and multiple choice)
• Watch the class. There are some quick calibration calculations involved, but this shouldn’t be difficult (go quickly). This should take about 2-2.5 hours. [There is good educational content in this class so while it takes valuable time, it’s not wasted time.]
• Taking a quick post-test
• Giving some feedback on the experience of taking the class.
• Total time, about 3 hours.

I know there isn’t much (any?) extra time now and I wish I could be making this request in the fall or early winter, but to get the final posted by Sept 1, the reviews are needed now.

For taking the time to do this review, we are offering free access several to a UC IPM on-line class with 1-2 CE units.  These classes usually cost around $50. If you are interested/willing, please send me an e-mail (or call my cell) and I’ll get you the link to the class, the review report form, and info for the free (to you) on-line class from IPM.

Thanks for considering this request, especially at this time of year.

Franz Niederholzer

UCCE Colusa and Sutter/Yuba

fjniederholzer@ucanr.edu

(530) 218-2359 (cell)

• Almond Management Considerations
• Potassium deficiency
• Rootstock trial for boron tolerance - 2019 Update
• Observation on Butte County Rootstock Trials
• Hull split timing and sprayer practices for best control results
• Advisor Farewell
• Propiconazole (Tilt®, Bumper®, etc.) use cancelled in the EU

Virtual Meeting Part 2: Using Crop ET Reports from a Soils Perspective

Online through Zoom

Tuesday, April 21st, 3:00-4:00pm -- Pre-registration required

See attached for all the important details!

Walnut Day

Wednesday, February 26, 2020

1:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.

Veterans Memorial Hall, 1425 Veteran's Memorial Circle, Yuba City

See attached for full meeting announcement!

Spray Application Pest Management Alliance

Airblast Sprayer Calibration Training
Tuesday, February 25, 2020, 7:30 AM-4 PM
Micheli Family Farms, 6005 CA-99, Live Oak, CA 95953

Registration is now open! Click here to register!

$20 registration fee includes: hands-on training, coffee, lunch, and refreshments

Join us for this all day, hands-on program for people who make on-farm decisions regarding airblast spraying. This includes farm owners, managers, foremen, and pest control advisors.

Please attached flyer for more information.

• Almond Orchard Management Considerations
• New EPA Paraquat Restrictions
• Young Orchard Weed Management
• Honey bee colonies, pollination, bee safety, and beekeeper responsibilities
• Navigating Irrigation Technology Overload
• 2020 Meetings
• fungicide Efficacy

In This Issue:

• 2020 UCCE Sacramento Valley Walnut Meetings
• Winter Pest & Weed Management Considerations
• Preparing for Extreme Events: Floods and Drought
• Young Orchard Weed Management
• New EPA Paraquat Restrictions
• Pre-Season Airblast Sprayer Caliberation
• Navigating Irrigation Technology Overload

Colusa Winter Almond Meeting

Granzella’s Banquet Hall, Williams, CA

457 7th St, Williams, CA 95987

January 22, 2020

2.0 hours of PCA credits Approved (0.5 hr of Laws & Regs, 1.5 hours Other)

3.0 hours of CCA credits Approved (0.5 hr Nutrient Mgmt, 0.5 hr Soil & Water Mgmt, 2.0 hr IPM)

Generous support of this program is provided by:

Colusa-Glenn Farm Credit

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8:00     SIGN-IN

8:15     Weed management in young almonds - Drew Wolter, Plant Sciences Department, UC Davis

8:45     Almond disease (fungal & bacterial) management at bloom - Dr. Jim Adaskeveg, Professor, Department of Plant Pathology and Microbiology, UC Riverside

9:30     Navel orangeworm management survey - Phoebe Gordon, Farm Advisor, Madera/Merced County

10:00   BREAK

10:15   Navel orangeworm management - Emily Symmes, UC IPM Area Advisor, Sacramento Valley

10:45   Laws and Regulations Update - Anastacia Allan, Assistant Ag Commissioner, Colusa County

11:15   Boron nutrition review - Franz Niederholzer, Farm Advisor, UCCE Colusa County

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North Valley Nut conference

January 21, 2020

7:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.

Glenn County Fairgrounds 221 E. Yolo Street, Orland, CA 95963

CE Credit: DPR: .5 hour L & R, 1.5 hours Other, CCA: 3.0 hours

Happy Holidays to you and your family! Please take a moment and read our attached letter about some programming that went this on past year and how you can help support your local UC Cooperative Extension in Colusa County. Thank you!

• Sutter/Yuba Winter Almond Meeting, January 7, 2020
• Colusa Winter Almond Meeting, January 22, 2020

Sacramento Valley Post-Harvest Almond & Walnut IPM Workshop

Friday, November 22, 2019

8:00am-11:00am (agenda begins 8:30am)

Chico Veteran's Memorial Hall, 554 Rio Lindo Avenue, Chico, Ca 95926

PLEASE NOTE: Pre-registration is requested

See attached for more details.

• Post Harvest Clean up
• Zinc and Boron Review
• Potassium management for sustained almond yields
• Almond Variety Planting Trends
• Increase Your Return on Investment with Post-Harvest Weed Scouting
• Save the Date! Post-Harvest Almond and Walnut IPM Workshop and more meeting dates for 2020

Join Dani Lightle (UCCE Orchards Advisor; Glenn, Tehama, and Butte Counties) and Drew Wolter (UC Junior Specialist Intern and UC Davis Graduate Student) for a field meeting to observe how different trunk protection methods help mitigate herbicide damage to young almond trees. The meeting Presentation/talk will be at the Nickels Soil Lab in Arbuckle (pin provided below) on September 12th from 8:00-9:00am. Dani, Drew and/or Franz Niederholzer will be there for drop-in visits until noon if you can't make the morning formal talk.

Dropped Pin: Field Meeting Location. Please enter the field site via Harrington Ave.

Any questions, contact Drew Wolter: (805) 617-8217 or Dani Lightle: (530) 865-1107

• 2019 IPM Breakfast Meeting
• Post-Harvest Almond and Walnut IPM Workshop
• Fall and Winter Walnut Management Considerations
• Preparing for extreme events: Freeze and Fire
• Increase Your Return on Investment with Post-Harvest Weed Scouting
• Wishing A Fond Farewell

September 12, Field Meeting at the Nickels Soil Lab in Arbuckle

Cover Cropping in Nut Orchards

Community Alliance with Family Farms (CAFF) & the Farmers Guild invite you to a cover crop field day

Focus: information sharing among growers and technical advisers regarding cover crops in Colusa county with particular attention on integrating cover crops into the management calendar and seed selection

Wednesday, August 28, 2019 - 9:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.

Davis Ranches, Sycamore Slough Rd, Colusa

(Detailed directions provided with RSVP)

Light refreshments and lunch will be provided

RSVP required: Please RSVP via Eventbrite or by contacting: emily@caff.org or call (925)719-3379.

Walnut Growers:

We are sending this email extra because the California Walnut Board and Commission wanted to make it widely known to walnut growers that the USDA announced details of the Market Facilitation Program which provides for payments to walnut growers.

Attached you will find the details on eligibility, payment calculation and how to apply. Please spread the work to other walnut growers who may not be on this email list.

Submitted by:

Janine Hasey

UCCE Farm Advisor Emeritus

Sacramento Valley Almond News - July, 2019 Contents:

• Cover Crop Seed Selection
• Summer-Fall Almond Orchard Management Considerations
• 2019 IPM Breakfast Meetings

Sacramento Valley Walnut News - Summer 2019 Contents:

• Walnut Orchard Management
• Cost and Expense Considerations in a Lean Price Year:
• IPM on a Budget - Cost Savings Strategies for Insect & Mite Management
• Maximizing walnut quality to improve value in a low-price year
• Should You Use Ethephon in a Lean Price Year?
• Autumn Freeze Event and Spring Regrowth Update
• Advisor Retiring
• IPM Breakfast Meetings

• Nickels Soil Lab Annual Field Day
• Pre- and Post- Herbicide Performance on Threespike Goosegrass in Three Nut Orchards
• The Many Possible Causes of "Gummy Nuts" in Almonds
• Almond Management Considerations: Spring & Early Summer
• Hull Split Timing and Sprayer Practices for Best Pest Control Results
• Hull Rot Management
• 2019 IPM Breakfast Meetings

April IPM Breakfast Meeting

Date & Time: Friday, April 12th, 8:00 - 9:00 am (*Note new start time this year*)

Location: Dancing Tomato Cafe (990 N. Walton Avenue, Yuba City, CA)

Join your local team of UC Cooperative Extension Farm & IPM Advisors to discuss current pest management and production issues in orchard crops. 

Space is limited - please RSVP to Emily Symmes at (530) 538-7201 or ejsymmes@ucanr.edu by April 11th to let us know you plan to attend.

• Orchard Management Considerations:  Budbreak through Early Summer
• 2019 IPM Breakfast Meetings
• Walnut Blight Management in 2019
• Revisiting Your Codling Moth IPM Program In A Lean Crop Year
• Pulling the trigger for the state of irrigation in the spring:  Too much too soon for walnuts?
• Tree and Vine Crop Herbicide Chart 2019

Spring Almond Nutrient and Water Management Field Day

Tuesday, March 26, 2019 – Chico, CA

8:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.

Please join us on Tuesday, March 26^th from 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. to participate in talks and rotating sessions on best water and nutrient management practices.  This event is co-sponsored by the UC Cooperative Extension,  UC Davis, CDFA-FREP and the Almond Board of California.

Requesting CCA and CURES credits.

RSVP to http://ucanr.edu/survey/survey.cfm?surveynumber=26918.

The Walnut Training Systems Field Meeting Date is Rescheduled due to rain predicted for March 5-7, 2019:

The Walnut Training Systems Field Meeting originally scheduled for Tuesday, March 5, 2019, 2:30 - 4:15 pm in Wheatland, with a back-up day of March 7 has been rescheduled to the following:

Walnut Training Systems
Wednesday, March 13, 2019
10:00 am - 11:45 am
Nichols Ranch
128 Nichols Road, Wheatland, CA 95692

Directions: From Highway 65 in Wheatland, turn east on 4th Street. Take 4th street to Nichols Road and turn left (note UCCE sign). At the end of Nichols Road, turn right taking the first driveway to the left (note UCCE sign). Drive straight in through gate to meeting location.

We will discuss various walnut training systems, and see 2-year-old unheaded Durham trees, 4-year-old Chandler trees, and discuss 3-year-old Solano yields.

Walnut (6 year old) No Pruning (no heading)/Variation of
No Pruning Grower Comparison Field Meeting
Bear River Walnut Ranch
2031 Spenceville Road, Wheatland, CA 95692

Directions: From Nichols Road, go left on Olive Street to Spenceville Road as you leave town. First ranch on the right (there is a double green gate).
_______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
These workshops will be conducted by UCCE Farm Advisor, UCCE Walnut Specialist:
Janine Hasey, Sutter/Yuba/Colusa Counties
Bruce Lampinen, Walnut Specialist, UC Davis
IN THE EVENT OF RAIN or CONDITIONS ARE TOO WET,

Meeting Date Change due to rain predicted for March 5-7, 2019:

The Walnut Canopy Management Field Meeting originally scheduled for Tuesday, March 5th with a back-up day of March 7th

HAS BEEN CHANGED TO THE FOLLOWING:

and will instead be presented during the:

Nickels Soil Lab Annual Field Meeting

Tuesday, May 7, 2019

The complete program announcement will be made in an upcoming newsletter.

Please call our office at (530) 822-7515 if you have any questions. 

Sutter-Yuba-Colusa

Walnut Day

Thursday, February 28, 2019

1:00 pm - 4:30 pm

Veterans Memorial Hall, 1425 Veteran's Memorial Circle, Yuba City

12:00 pm Registration

1:00 pm Welcome & Moderator

1:05 pm 2019 Pesticide regulation updates

2:30 pm - Break

2:50 pm - Working for the Future

3:35 pm - Irrigating walnuts with quality and cost savings in mind & Labor Saving strategies and 2018 field observations

4:30 pm - Adjourn

• Walnut Day agenda
• Field Meeting Map
• Walnut Field Meetings

1. Walnut Canopy Management - topics will include hedging and whisking trails since 2016 for 11 year old Chandler planted in a hedgerow

2. Walnut Training Systems - topics will include various walnut training systems and see 2 and 3 year old Durham trees and 3 year old Solano trees, the two newest variety releases

3. Walnut (6 year old) No Pruning (no heading)/Variation of No Pruning Grower Comparision Field Meeting

UPDATED MEETING DATE!

Colusa Winter Almond Meeting

January 17, 2019, 8:00a.m. - 11:45am

Granzella's Banquet Hall, 457 - 7th Street, Williams, CA 95987

Meeting sponsored by:

                         Farm Credit Services of Colusa-Glenn, ACA                           Colusa County Farm Supply

1.75 hours of PCA CE (0.5 hr Laws/Regs & 1.25 hrs Other) - requested

2.75 hours of CCA CE (1 hr Soil & Water Man., 1.25 hr IPM, 0.5 Crop Man.) - requested

Sutter-Yuba Winter Almond Meeting

This meeting is intended as a short meeting to deliver timely information and gauge interest in future winter almond meetings in the Yuba City area. Topics include Introduction/Nutrient management for almonds, Almond variety and rootstock information and Almond disease management. 

0.5 hours of PCA CE (0.5 hr IPM) requested

1.0 hours of CCA CE (0.5 hr Nutrient Man., 0.5 hr IPM) requested

In this issue:

• 2019 UCCE Walnut Meetings
• Scale Pests, Navel Orangeworm, and Flatheaded Borers
• Cost and Expense Considerations in Lean Price Year
• Tracking Winter Irrigation Needs
• Updated Walnut Cost Study
• 2019 IPM Breakfast Meetings
• Growing the Valley Podcast: Walnut episodes posted!

MEETING ANNOUNCEMENT

Market Facilitation Program Workshops

November 7 | November 8 | November 9

You are invited to attend a Market Facilitation Program workshop hosted by the Almond Alliance and Almond Board of California to learn how to apply for this funding. 

• 2018/19 UCCE Fall & Winter Almond Meetings
• Post-harvest Nutrition Review
• Post-harvest Orchard Management Considerations
• Cover Crops in Almonds: Research Update
• Cover Crops Survey
• SoilWeb Workaround
• Keep an Eye out for Potential Brown Marmorated Stink Bug Damage
• Annual Post-Harvest Almond and Walnut IPM Workshop
• IPM Breakfast Meetings

August IPM Breakfast Meeting

Yuba-Sutter-Colusa Counties

Friday, August 17th, 2018

7:30am – 9:00am

IHOP Restaurant, 1310 Franklin Rd, Yuba City, CA

(No-host breakfast)

Join Area IPM Advisor Emily Symmes and Sacramento Valley Orchard Systems Farm Advisors Janine Hasey and Franz Niederholzer to discuss current pest management and production issues in orchard crops.

Please contact Emily Symmes to request topics or bring your questions to the meeting!

Space is limited – please RSVP to Emily Symmes at (530) 538-7201 or ejsymmes@ucanr.edu to let us know you plan to attend.

 **DPR and CCA hours requested (1.5 other)**

Monthly meetings are planned throughout the Sacramento Valley (third Friday of the month), so if you are unable to join us next week, keep the following dates and locations in mind and visit sacvalleyorchards.com for updates!

 Tehama: September 21

Glenn: October 19

 If you have any accessibility concerns, please contact Emily at ejsymmes@ucanr.edu

August 17 Yuba, Sutter, and Colusa Counties Breakfast Meeting

• Prune Rootstock Trial Field Day
• Pre-Harvest & Harvest Prune Orchard Consideration
• Managing canker diseases in prune orchards: what we have learned so far.
• Prune Harvest Timing
• July Leaf Sampling: A Critical Task in Prune Production
• Podcast from UC tree crop researchers! "Growing the Valley"

• Early Walnut Tree Training and How to Use a Pressure Chamber for Irrigation Scheduling Workshop
• IPM Meetings
• Walnut Production Short Course
• Walnut Orchard Management - June through August
• Early Walnut Tree
• Leaf symptoms of overwatering walnut trees
• Growing the Valley Podcast

• 2018 IPM Breakfast Meetings
• Orchard Managment Considerations
• A New Tool in the Fight Against Blight
• 2018 Winter and Early Season Irrigation Considerations in Walnut
• 2017 Flood Damaged Trees - Research Results and What to do this Spring
• Tree and vine Crop Herbicide Chart - Updated (2018)

Spring Almond and Walnut Nutrient and Water Management Field Day

Tuesday, March 13th, 8:30am, Nickels Soil Lab, Arbuckle

RAIN OR SHINE

Lunch provided, please RSVP: jpperry@ucanr.edu or call 530-458-0570

Walnut Day

Thursday, February 22, 2018

1:00pm-4:30pm, registration begins at 12:00pm

Veterans Memorial Hall, Yuba City

For meeting details please see attachment.

In This Issue:

• Bloom Almond Orchard Management Considerations
• When is Peach Twig Borer A Concern
• Naval Orangeworm Considerations 2018
• Honey Bees and Bloom Sprays
• How is Band Canker Infecting Young Trees?
• Missing the Target: Why You Should Irrigate Potted Trees Directly onto Potting Media
• 2018 IPM Breakfast Meetings

Reminder, Winter Almond Meeting coming up on February 7, Stagehands Theatre, Colusa County Fairgrounds, Colusa, 9am - 12:45pm. See insert for agenda and map.

Colusa/Sutter/Yuba Winter Almond Meeting

Stagehands Theatre, Colusa County Fairgrounds, Colusa, CA

February 7, 2018, 9:00 a.m.

See attached for map and agenda

UCCE Sac Valley Post-Harvest Almond & Walnut IPM Meeting

Friday, November 17th, 2017, 8:00 am - 12:00 pm

Chico Veteran's Memorial Hall, 554 Rio Lindo Avenue, Chico 95926

(3 hours of DPR CE units "other" Approved, 3 hours CCA "IPM" pending)

In This Issue:

• 2017/2018 UCCE Fall & Winter Meetings
• Bacterial Spot: A Dangerous Disease
• Gophers Kill Trees!
• Update on Yellow Monterey Almond Trees
• Almond Orchard Management Checklist: Post-Harvest and Dormancy
• New Pesticide Labels Available to Help control Pruning Wound Infections

Take a look!

July IPM Breakfast meeting announcement!

Tuesday, July 11th, 7:30am-9am

Granzella's Restaurant, 451-6th St, Williams

Please RSVP to Emily Symmes at 530-538-7201, as space is limited.

• New Farm Advisor Introduction
• Relationship between Varieties and Bacterial Blast during Bloom
• Naval Orangeworm update
• Yellowing trees on Kymsk 86 after a wet spring
• Approaches to Spider Mite Management in Almonds
• Pre- & Post- Harvest Almond Orchard Considerations
• Almond Variety Trial Field Day - June 22nd!
• Upcoming IPM Breakfast Meetings

Sacramento Valley Walnut New - Summer 2017

• Upcoming IPM Breakfast Meetings
• Farm Advisor Introduction
• In-season Walnut Production Considerations
• Insect and Mite Updates - 2017
• Flooded Orchard Damage Update and Management Considerations
• Website Resources

In this issue, you will find:

• Waterlogged orchards?
• Bloom review
• Potassium, zinc, iron, and manganese deficiencies
• April showers bring yellowing Krymsk?
• Almond management considerations:  spring and early summer
• Correction:  When to apply the first irrigation?
• Upcoming breakfast meetings-mark your calendar!
• Nickels Field Day-May 10th-Registration form and map

Orchard Calibration Field Day Tuesday, April 25 at Nickels Soil Lab in Arbuckle

Sacramento Valley Walnut News - Spring 2017 Contents:

• Orchard Management Considerations:  Budbreak through Early Summer
• Walnut Blight Management
• Monitoring Codling Moth In and Near Mating Disruption Orchards
• Latest on Managing Bot Canker and Blight in Walnut - 2016 Research Updates
• Flooded Orchards:  Past Experiences and What to Do in 2017
• Upcoming Meetings
• 2017 Herbicide Chart

2017 Flooded Orchards - What to do and Resources

• What to do now
• Reporting damage/loss
• Determining Damage
• Potential Disaster Relief Resources

Email Extra - March IPM Breakfast Meeting Contents:

March IPM Breakfast Meeting

Tuesday, March 14, 2017, 7:30 am - 9:00 am

Join Area IPM Advisor Emily Symmes and Orchard Systems Farm Advisors Janine Hasey and Franz Niederholzer to discuss current pest management and production issues. 

**No-host breakfast, DPR and CCA hours requested (1.5 other)**

Download and view the newsletter here.

HTML Link: http://cesutter.ucanr.edu/?newsitem=68103

The UCCE Sutter-Yuba-Colusa Walnut Day scheduled for Tuesday, February 21, 2017 is cancelled due to the recent evacuation advisory and upcoming storms.

We will not be rescheduling this event this year. If you have any questions please contact 530-822-7515.

In this issue:

• Focus on honeybees, colony strength, and beekeeper responsibilities
• Protecting honeybees during bloom
• When to apply the first irrigation?
• 2017 UCCE Almond meetings
• Additional information
• Winter & Bloom Almond Orchard Management Considerations
• Almond Fungicide Efficacy

• New Website Resource for Sac Valley Tree Crop Production
• In-Season Walnut Production Considerations
• Walnut Husk Fly Update 2016
• Tipping the Scales to Favor Walnut Quality
• Selecting the Right Clonal Rootstock for Managing Soil and Pest Problems
• Are you Pushing Out a Chandler Orchard in the Next Year? Call Kat!

• Upcoming Meetings
• New Website Resource for Sac Valley Tree Crop Production
• Preharvest/Harvest Almond Orchard Practices to Consider
• Did you notice yellow, flagging branches this spring? Beware of Anthracnose!
• Herbicide Symptom Gallery
• Managing Soil Variability for Increased Almond Production

Upcoming Meetings:

1. Friday, July 8, 2016 - 8:30am to Noon - Dust Control/Sustainability Field at Nickels Soil Lab. RSVP to Rebecca Bailey at rbailey@almondboard.com
2. November 8-10, 2016 - Almond Production Short Course at Modesto, CA - More information: http://ucanr.edu/almondshortcourse

Irrigation Technology Workshop/Field Day for Nut and Fruit Crops

The University of California Cooperative Extension invites fruit and nut crop producers in the Northern Sacramento Valley to attend a combination workshop/field day on Thursday, June 16th. Please see attached for all the details.

• Cling Peach New Variety and Selections Field Meeting
• Final Chilling Hours
• Normal timing for peach harvest predicted
• Sizing Peach Fruit
• Hail Storm
• Freeze Damage in Young Walnuts
• Website Resources

Almond Board Field Meeting

Nickels Soil Lab

Tuesday, May 10

Green Bay Ave.

The Almond Board of California is hosting a field meeting at the Nickels Soil Lab on Tuesday, May 10 from 8:30 – noon. A free lunch will be available following the program. Interested growers and PCAs are encouraged to attend. Featured speakers will include Kurt Hembree, UCCE Farm Advisor in Fresno County specializing in weed control in tree crops as well as Almond Board representatives. A detailed agenda is included with this newsletter post.

To help with a lunch count, please RSVP to Rebecca Bailey at rbailey@almondboard.com or 209-343-3245.

Hope to see you there.  

In This Issue:

• Nickel Annual Field Day Meeting Announcement
• Nickels Organic Field Day Meeting Announcement
• Pocket Gopher Management
• Alternative Preemergence Herbicide  Strategy for Summer Grasses in Orchards
• Weekly Soil Moisture Loss Reports
• In-Season Almond Pest and Disease Considerations
• Organic Almond Production Field Meeting Planned

Sacramento Valley Walnut News - Spring 2016

• Orchard Management Considerations: Delayed Dormant through Early Summer
• The Latest on Managing Bot Canker and Blight - 2015 Research Updates
• Walnuts: When to Being the Irrigation Season
• New Walnut Variety "Durham" Released
• Tree and Vine Crop Herbicide Chart

Walnut (8 year olds) No Pruning/Pruning Comparison Field Meeting

Tuesday, March 1, 2016, 10:00 am-11:30 am

Nickels Soil Lab, Arbuckle

We will discuss the 8 year old pruning vs. no pruning trial and 2016 plans for Chandler planted in a hedgerow.

The workshop will be conducted by UCCE Farm Advisor & Walnut Specialist:

Janine Hasey, Sutter/Yuba/Colusa Counties; Bruce Lampinen, Walnut Specialist, UC Davis

Walnut (3 year olds) No Pruning/Variation of No Pruning/Prunng Grower Comparison Field Meeting

Tuesday, March 1, 2016, 2:30 pm - 4:00 pm

Bear River Walnut Ranch, 2031 Spenceville Road, Wheatland, CA 95692

Directions: Go east on Main Street from Highway 65 in Wheatland.  Main Street becomes Spenceville Road as you leave town. First ranch on the right (there is a double green gate). Look for UCCE sign.

The workshop will be conducted by UCCE Farm Advisor & Walnut Specialist:

Janine Hasey, Sutter/Yuba/Colusa Counties; Bruce Lampinen, Walnut Specialist, UC Davis

Questions: UCCE Sutter-Yuba Office at 530.822.7515 or look at the website for updated information at http://cesutter.ucanr.edu/

• UCCE Sutter-Yuba Annual Prune Meeting
• Prune Bloom Orchard Management Considerations
• Nitrogen Management for Prunes
• 2015 Field Evaluation of Prune Rootstocks
• Fungicide Efficacy

In this issue,

• Krymsk 86 in Cool, Wet Conditions
• Wet or Dry, Get Ready
• El Nino Rains and Pruning Don't Mix
• Frost Protection
• Upcoming Almond Meetings

• Why are some individual trees turning yellow and not growing?
• 2015 In-season naval orangeworm update
• Almond canopy cankers
• Non-infectious bud failure management
• Weak areas in orchards...dead roots?
• Pre-harvest almond orchard management considerations

Don't Forget!

2015 Nickels Soil Lab Annual Field Day

Wednesday, May 6, 2015

6537 Green Bay Rd, Arbuckle

8:30 am - 12:15 pm

Lunch by Reservation Available!

• Navel Orangeworm in 2015
• Almond Scab
• Band Canker
• N Budgeting Following the 4 R's
• In-season Almond Orchard Management Considerations
• Nickels field Day Meeting Announcement

Start and Stop Frost Protection Sprinklers based on Wet Bulb Temperatures and charts included in this email.

• Prune Grower Meeting
• Prune Orchard Activities
• Heat at Bloom Update
• Honey Bee Safety During Prune Bloom
• Pesticide Safety Workshop
• Herbicide Registration Chart

Reminder: Come on out to the Colusa Farm Show and attend the

South Sacramento Valley Winter Almond Meeting

Thursday, February 5th

8:00 am

Stagehands Theater, Colusa Fairgrounds

Meeting Dates:

Walnut Day - Wednesday, February 25th, 1pm-4:30pm, Veterans Memorial Hall, Yuba City

Walnut (7 yr olds) No Pruning/Pruning Comparison Field Mtg

          March 3rd, 10am-11:30am, Nickels Soil Lab, Arbuckle

Walnut (2 yr olds) No Pruning/Pruniing Grower Comparison Field Mtg

          March 3rd, 2:30-4pm, Bear River Walnut Ranch, Wheatland

South Sacramento Valley Winter Almond Meeting

Stagehands Theater, Colusa County Fairgrounds, Colusa, CA

February 5, 2015

8am - 12pm

In This Issue:

• Upcoming 2015 UCCE Meetings
• Walnut Year-Round IPM Plan and Winter Orchard Pest Management Activities
• Walnut Orchards Planted in 2014-What to do Now?
• Pistachio Meeting Information

In The Issue:

• Winter & Bloom Almond Orchard Management Considerations
• Winter Sanitation for Navel Orangeworm Control
• Honey Bee Safety During Bloom
• Rootstock trial for boron tolerance has Nickels with an early lead
• Bacterial Spot of Almond in California

In This Issue:

• Sacramento Valley Cling Peach Day meeting
• Walnut Day meeting
• Updates on Potential New Disease

Upcoming meeting:

Dealing with Botryosphaeria in Walnuts

Monday, July 21, 2014 - 9am-12pm

UCCE Yolo Office, Norton Hall

70 Cottonwood Street, Woodland, CA

• New IPM Advisor Introduction
• New Farm Advisor Introduction
• Advisor Retirement
• Scale Identification and Lifecycles in Walnut Orchards
• Walnut Husk Fly Trap and Low Volume Spray Study Update
• Irrigation Management Tools for Developing Walnut Trees

• New IPM Advisor
• New Farm Advisor
• Advisor Retirement
• Leaf analysis and salinity monitoring
• Research reveals the core components of optimum almond production
• Navel orangeworm management
• Nitrogen Management in Orchard Crops Meeting

MEETING ANNOUNCEMENT:

Nitrogen Management in Orchard Crops - Thursday, July 24th, 1:00 pm-4:00 pm, Red Bluff Elks Lodge, 355 Gilmore Road, Red Bluff, CA

• New UC Cooperative Extension Farm Advisor Introduction
• Insect Activity
• Foliar Nutrient Sprays
• Nitrogen Use Efficiency
• Irrigation Management
• Nickels Field Day, lunch reservation form and map

• Irrigation Scheduling in a Drought Year Field Meeting
• Final Chilling Hours
• Predicting Peach Harvest
• Sizing Peach Fruit
• Website Resources
• Brown Marmorated Stink Bug Alert
• 37th Annual Nickels Field Day

In This Issue:

• California Walnut Research
• New Farm Advisor Introduction
• Understanding & Managing Botryosphaeria & Phomopsis Canker and Blight
• Watch for Early Insect Activity
• Perspective on trends in orchard spacing, pruning and potential disease
• Springtime Recovery from Winter Freeze Damage
• SAVE THE DATE: Irrigation Scheduling & Drought Mgmt Strategies Meeting

Understanding & Managing Botryosphaeria and Phomopsis Canker and Blight in Walnut Field Meeting

It is not suppose to rain tomorrow, so the meeting is on as scheduled!

In this issue:

• Understanding & Managing Botryosphaeria and Phomosis canker and blight in Walnuts Field Meeting
• Training Young Walnuts: No Pruning/Pruning Compared
• Save the Date! Irrigation Scheduling & Drought Mgmt Strategies Meeting

Just a reminder:

Walnut No Pruning/Pruning Comparison Field Meeting

Tuesday, March 4th

10am - 11:30 am

Location: Nickels Soil Lab, On Greenbay Rd, Arbuckle

Park on Greenbay Road and walk in. Thank you.

• Prune Orchard Activities to consider for March
• Prune Fungicide Efficacy
• Prune Growing in California

Meeting announcements:

Walnut Day, Wednesday, February 26, 1-4pm, Veterans Memorial Hall, Yuba City

Walnut No Pruning/Pruning Comparison Field Meeting, Tuesday, March 4, 10-11:30am, Nickels Soil Lab, Arbuckle

Botryosphaeria and Phomopsis canker and blight and their mgmt in walnut Field Meeting, Wednesday, April 2

OTHER TOPICS:

• UC Drought Mgmt Information
• Herbicide Chart

For Your Information-

A couple of speakers switch time slots and times adjusted by 15 minutes earlier.  None of the agenda content has changed.

Meeting Reminder.....

South Sacramento Valley Winter Almond Meeting

Located at the Stage Hands Building (blue building north of livestock area), Colusa County Fairgrounds

Tuesday, Feb 4th, 8am sign in, 8:30 meeting begins.

Suggestion: Park in the main parking lot and enter thru the Main gate (entrance off of Hwy 20 by the office).

• Cling Peach Day 2014
• Effective and Economical Management of Flower, Foliar, and Fruit Diseases of Cling Peach
• Chilling Hours Update

• Various meetings planned
• Managing Ground Squirrels and Pocket Gophers
• Winter Cold and Irrigation During Drought
• Training Young Walnut Trees: Minimum Pruning vs No Pruning Compared
• Nitrogen Management Planning

• Naval orangeworm management - 2013
• Almond hull rot - cultural and chemical management
• Alternaria leaf spot and leaf rust of almond
• Water management for almond; in-season, harvest and post-harvest
• Pre-harvest almond orchard nutrition
• Room for rent sought for UC Intern
• Local Weather Data Available

• Irrigation Management Tools for Developing Walnut Trees
• Walnut Husk Fly Trap Study
• Howard Nut Drop
• Ethephon Use Consideration in the Sacramento Valley

Reminder!

Walnut Orchard Herbicide and Demonstration Field Day

May 29, 2013 - 10:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.

Whitney Warren Ranch, Wheatland, CA

Reminder!

Nickels Soil Lab Annual Field Day

Wednesday, May 15, 2013

Green Bay Avenue, Arbuckle, CA

8:30am - 12:15pm

Just added:  After lunch a demonstration of modified airblast sprayer for better pest control in tree tops!!

The field day is on WEDNESDAY, May 15th.

• Nickels Soil Lab Annual Field Day
• Almond Varieties
• Crown Rot and Pruning Wound Cankers
• New video: Managing Almond Pests using the the Year-around IPM program
• Tying Young Trees
• Navel Orangeworm Pressure?

•  Practices to consider in prune orchards in April/May
• Sutter-Yuba Spring Field Meeting
• Orchard Irrigation
• Prune Tisshe Sampling for Leaf Analysis
• Efficient Nitrogen Management in Prune Production
• How hot was it at bloom, 2013?

• Field Meetings: Monitoring and Control of Walnut Husk Fly and Walnut Orchard Herbicide Research and Demonstration Field Day
• Final Chilling Hours
• Predicting Peach Harvest
• Sizing Peach Fruit
• Updated Website
• 36th Annual Nickels Field Day (announcement to be released soon)

• Butte-Glenn Almond Institute & Walnut Day
• Groundwater Nitrogen Dilemma
• Bee Careful with Pesticides
• Almond orchards with wild insects have higher fruit set
• Nickels Field Day
• Springtime disease control
• Almond Fungicide Efficacy
• South Sacramento Valley Winter Almond Meeting

Walnut Day, 2-21-13, Yuba City

Walnut Pruning Field Day, 3-5-13, Nickels Soil Lab

Efficient Walnut Spraying article

Snake River area funding

• South Sacramento Valley Winter Almond Meeting
• SpraySafe Meeting

Orchard Notes - by Janine Hasey, Farm Advisor for Colusa/Sutter/Yuba Counties

- 2013 Cling Peach Day

- Herbicide Chart

- Chilling Hours Update

- 2013 Walnut Day

- Newsletter Renewal was sent to Colusa County mail list also, please get yours turned in so you don't miss out on important information and meetings.

Introduction to Almond Production registration attached.

Introduction to Almond Production meetings

Pocket Gopher Management for Autumn

Annual Almond Conference moved to Sacramento

Hull Rot

Leaf Blight

Navel Orangeworm

Weed Management

Spray Safe Meeting

Wednesday, June 20th, 9am

Colusa County Fairgrounds, Festival Hall

2 hours Laws & Regs and 1 hour CE Other

Walnut Day and Pruning Day Meeting Announcement!

See attached flyer for additional meeting and lunch provided by Almond Board of California's Sustainability Program Self-Assessment opportunity.

Almond Meeting Notice for February 2nd!

*file91142*

Gopher and Ground Squirrel Control in Orchard Crops Field Meeting taking place this Thursday.  As you can see the meeting location has been moved to D&D Farms at 3890 Tudor Rd, Yuba City (see attached map).

2011 Spring Sac Valley Valley Walnut News from Janine Hasey, UC Farm Advisor, Sutter & Yuba Counties.  Contains meeting announcements and very useful information on walnuts.