Calag Archive

Encouraging results with previous deficit high-frequency irrigation experiments raised hopes that the technique could reduce water use on some California crops. But studies with sorghum, beans, and tomatoes proved the method unsuccesstkl.

Slashing vines promotes early bud growth and results in greater growth of shoots and canes.

Portable field scale aids in gathering yield data from mechanically harvested crops utilizing bins.

Monies expended on mechanization research can gield significantly high net returns to society, despite evidence of large adjustment costs.

Under field conditions the spider mite predator M. occidentalis can resist low application rates of organophosphate pesticides; but the spider mite is 40 times more resistant to permethrin than its predator.

A study with sheep shows tomato pomace has a feeding value for ruminants similar to good quality alfalfa when compared on a dry-matter basis.

Cauliflower growers need high gields to justiftl high land costs. New spacing practices can increase gields bg as much as 50 percent.