UC Delivers

Specialty Crops - Return

2018

• 2018 National Youth Summit on Agri-Science “opened eyes” of CA teens to how agricultural science applies to their daily lives

2017

• Integrating Urban Agriculture with Youth Development through Community Tours
• UC IPM coordinates a statewide conversation about the role of chlorpyrifos
• UC IPM delivers IPM solutions to Californians

2016

• Integrated Pest Management strategies to reduce chemical pesticides in strawberry
• Using Micro-Sprinklers in Strawberry Production Saves Water

2015

• App helps coastal farmers better manage nitrogen fertilizer and water
• Farm Business Planning course helps farmers succeed
• Primocane blackberries add an important new alternative for California’s small fruit producers
• Specialty coffee production is a new crop alternative in mild-winter areas of California
• When small-scale farmers and regional marketers meet, both benefit

2014

• New problems on parsley studied by UC researchers

2013

• Innovative progress in the mechanical harvest of California table olives

2012

• Sustained conservation tillage tomato systems show promise
• UC and IR-4 support California's fresh produce
• UC works to protect spinach from downy mildew

2011

• Biological frost control strategies reduce crop damage
• Citrus variety collection Is a treasurehouse of diversity
• Converting urban yard waste to avocado root rot management
• Creating a management system for spotted wing drosophila in caneberries and strawberries
• New invasions of eye gnats in Southern California
• UCCE explores the Farm-to-WIC Program
• UCCE helps bromeliad growers comply with regulations

2010

• Citrus thrips management programs developed for blueberries
• Making avocado crops profitable in Ventura and Santa Barbara counties

2009

• Award-winning documentary showcases Marin farm families
• Directing Farmers to Success
• Marketing challenges and opportunities for Central Valley Southeast Asian refugee growers
• Off-season blueberry production a new options on Coastal California family farms
• Organic demonstration farm thrives at local community college campus

2008

• County support for sustainable agriculture coordinator makes a difference
• Redberry mite management in blackberries
• Refractometer calibration test kit developed
• UC Cooperative Extension helps family farmers comply with labor laws

2007

• Carrots are not only orange
• Long-term work yields avocados resistant to disease
• Mini Watermelon Research Benefits California Farmers
• Nurseries implement management practices to protect water quality
• Organic olive production short course and manual
• UC Helps Maintain State's Agricultural Roots:Grown in Marin
• UC studies overhead center-pivot irrigation in no-tillage systems
• UC’s olive oil taste panel supports industry
• UCCE Fresno helps refugee farmers after the 2007 freeze

2006

• Minor Vegetable Crops on the Coast Supported by Cooperative Extension
• Mushroom Production and Waste Management
• Raspberry Producers Reduce Water Use on the Central Coast
• Regional marketing—A competitive niche for small and mid-scale growers
• Teamwork Controls Major Pest in Avocado

2003

• An Alternative to Honey Bees for Pollination
• Biological Control Research Helps Address New Avocado Pests
• Citrus Program Protects Health of State's Trees
• Collaboration Develops Improved Avocado Maturity Test
• Conservation of Biological Control Posterchild, Cottony Cushion Scale
• High-Pressure Washer Removes Red Scale for Citrus Fruits
• Management of California Red Scale , #1 Pest of Citrus in the San Joaquin Valley
• Mite devastating date crop is foiled
• Monitoring Insecticide Resistance of California Red Scale
• New Bait Technology Controls Ants in Urban, Agricultural Environments
• Practical UC Course on Specialty Crops Production