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Vegetable Crops - Return

2018

• 2018 National Youth Summit on Agri-Science “opened eyes” of CA teens to how agricultural science applies to their daily lives
• Improved understanding leads to better management of nitrogen fertilizer on the central coast
• UCCE eJournals help growers manage pests in agricultural and urban landscapes
• UCCE research and extension improves returns for strawberry and vegetable farmers

2015

• App helps coastal farmers better manage nitrogen fertilizer and water
• Enhanced irrigation and crop management technologies developed in Five Points, Calif.
• Farm Business Planning course helps farmers succeed
• Protecting organic celery production

2014

• New problems on parsley studied by UC researchers

2013

• Conservation Tillage Cuts Costs in Tomato Production
• Conservation Tillage Workgroup Introduces New Tillage Alternatives
• Cover Cropping Improves Soil Properties and Reduces Greenhouse Gas Emissions
• Surface residues and no-tillage reduce soil water evaporation
• UCCE helps beginning farmers grow their businesses

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
• Business planning helps small farms in a challenging economy
• Food Industry Referral Guides help California food processors and producers
• New invasions of eye gnats in Southern California
• Reduce pollution with proper fertilizer timing
• UC 'Organically Grown' Help
• UC biotechnology website helps the public understand GMOs

2010

• Research on new celery virus identifies control measures

2009

• Directing Farmers to Success
• Organic demonstration farm thrives at local community college campus
• Trap Cropping for Management of Root-knot Nematode by Home Gardeners
• UC research finds 7 more plant families that host cucurbit disease
• Vegetable growers helped with damaging thrips-vectored viruses
• Water quality courses assist California's ethnic Chinese growers

2008

• UC Cooperative Extension helps family farmers comply with labor laws
• UC studies improve the efficiency of weed control in broccoli production
• UCCE investigates how E. coli survives in vegetable fields

2007

• Carrots are not only orange
• Mini Watermelon Research Benefits California Farmers
• Spread of tomato yellow leaf curl in California tomatoes arrested
• UC Helps Maintain State's Agricultural Roots:Grown in Marin
• UC studies overhead center-pivot irrigation in no-tillage systems
• UCCE Fresno helps refugee farmers after the 2007 freeze

2006

• Irrigation Strategies for Erosion Reduction in the Salton Sea Watershed
• Minor Vegetable Crops on the Coast Supported by Cooperative Extension
• Monterey County Lab To Assist in Biosecurity Efforts
• Potato Evaluation Program Helps California Growers
• Regional marketing—A competitive niche for small and mid-scale growers
• Resistance to Rodenticide Found in Meadow Voles in Artichoke Fields
• Using Polymers to Reduce Sediment and Nutrient Losses from Central Coast Vegetable Fields

2003

• 3 Year Study Examines Most Efficient Sprinkler Spacing
• A Field Key to Lygus Species of the San Joaquin Valley
• An Alternative to Honey Bees for Pollination
• Calaveras Grown Program
• California Processing Tomato Variety Evaluation
• California’s “Clean Seed” Sweetpotato Program
• IPM Programs for Celery, Tomatoes Aid Growers, Public
• Mulches Used to Control Avocado, Citrus Root Rot
• New Developments in Melon Powdery Mildew Management
• New Virus Disease in Melons and Squash Is Identified and Described
• Pest Control Advisor Advanced Training
• Practical UC Course on Specialty Crops Production
• Production Cost Data in High Demand
 
• UCCE organizes a community food coalition to improve food sourcing