UC Delivers Categories

Fruits/Nuts - Return

2018

• UCCE eJournals help growers manage pests in agricultural and urban landscapes
• UCCE research and extension improves returns for strawberry and vegetable farmers

2017

• Avocado Educational Grower Seminar Series Continues to Progress and Benefit California Growers
• 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

• Cooperative Extension, California Citrus Research Board joint seminars for citrus growers
• Farm Business Planning course helps farmers succeed
• First UC app for integrated pest management outreach
• Primocane blackberries add an important new alternative for California’s small fruit producers
• Thousand cankers disease research increases awareness and solutions for walnut industry

2014

• Cooperative Extension Teams with Strawberry Industry to Identify New Disease Developments

2013

• Innovative progress in the mechanical harvest of California table olives

2012

• Thousand cankers disease attacks commercial walnut in California
• UC and IR-4 support California's fresh produce

2011

• Pest Management Alliances lead to IPM adoption
• Biological frost control strategies reduce crop damage
• Business planning helps small farms in a challenging economy
• Citrus variety collection Is a treasurehouse of diversity
• Food Industry Referral Guides help California food processors and producers
• Hmong strawberry growers grow food safety knowledge
• UC 'Organically Grown' Help
• UC biotechnology website helps the public understand GMOs

2010

• Citrus thrips management programs developed for blueberries
• Economic impact of mild tristeza virus strains on tolerant rootstocks
• Increasing nut crop acreage expands need for integrated pest management training
• Making avocado crops profitable in Ventura and Santa Barbara counties
• UCCE Shasta helps consumers grow their own strawberries

2009

• Irrigation research delineates tradeoffs in fruit quality and yield
• 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

• Redberry mite management in blackberries
• Refractometer calibration test kit developed
• UC IPM guidelines for strawberries in Spanish

2007

• Innovative Almond Pest Control Reduces Toxic Pesticide Use and Improves Environment
• Livestock recycle pears, minimize harvest loss
• Long-term work yields avocados resistant to disease
• New weed control strategies in strawberry are effective
• Organic olive production short course and manual
• UC research boosts California strawberries industry
• UC’s olive oil taste panel supports industry

2006

• Nickels Soil Lab Research Supports New Orchard Plantings
• 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

2005

• Limited Resource Farmers Learn How To Save Water and Energy

2003

• A Field Key to Lygus Species of the San Joaquin Valley
• An Alternative to Honey Bees for Pollination
• Assistance to Southeast Asian Strawberry Growers
• Calaveras Grown Program
• Fair Oaks Horticulture Center
• Management of California Red Scale , #1 Pest of Citrus in the San Joaquin Valley
• More Efficient Mating Disruption Reduces Insecticide Use, Saves Costs
• Orchard Operations – Pruning to Induce Early Bearing in Orchards
• Organic Apple Industry in California
• Organic Controls for Walnut Husk Fly Developed
• Outbreak of new disease affects almond orchards statewide
• Pheromone Mating Disruption Reduces Insecticides in Peaches
• Practical UC Course on Specialty Crops Production
• Proper weed identification is essential for control
 
• Reducing environmental impacts of foothill citrus orchards
 
• UC research identifies new emerging soilborne diseases of strawberry
 
• UCCE organizes a community food coalition to improve food sourcing