Agriculture

Three projects win funding to fight tree-killing bacteria AUTHOR:JULES BERNSTEIN, UCR With three new grants totaling more than $11 million, UC Riverside is helping lead the fight against citrus greening or Huanglongbing, a disease threatening citrus industries in the U.S. and worldwide.

Let's be social! How much do you know about social wasps? Would you like to engage in a "meet-and-greet" with them and talk to a wasp expert?

The winter seminars hosted by the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology are underway. All seminars are on Mondays at 4:10 p.m. in Room 122 of Briggs Hall and also will be on Zoom. The Zoom link: https://ucdavis.zoom.us/j/95882849672. No seminar will take place on Monday, Jan.

Plans are underway for the 13th annual UC Davis Biodiversity Museum Day, a free "Super Science Day" for the public to observe science in action, and meet the scientists one-on-one. The event, set for Saturday, Feb.

Granjas regionales darn demostraciones sobre prcticas como el cultivo de cubiertas vegetales, reduccin de labranza, composta y mantillos, plantacin de setos y sistemas para optimizar el riego Un subsidio de cerca de dos millones de dlares permitir acelerar, a travs de sitios de demostracin en Califo...

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Armillaria mellea is the pathogen that causes root rot of many forest and ornamental and agronomic trees. The pathogen occurs in landscapes and urban soils as well as a natural pathogen in forests and on lands converted to farming.

How the new neonic regulations impact your operations There are new neonicotinoid regulations effective starting Jan 1, 2024 to protect pollinators.

A new study that estimates costs and potential returns for growing raspberries on the Central Coast is available for free from UC Agriculture and Natural Resources, UC Cooperative Extension and the UC Davis Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics.

Most commonly we associate the malformed fruit we see in lemons to citrus bud mite. But it can also occur on other varieties of citrus in Southern California, including in this case to tangelos. If there's enough fruit to bite into, it's still edible.