Agriculture

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Figure 2. Applicator for dosing granular PAM into drainage ditches.
Salinas Valley Agriculture: Article

New approaches to using polyacrylamide (PAM) to reduce sediment and sediment bound pesticides and nutrients in runoff and improve chlorine efficacy: Part II—an auger applicator for treating irrigation runoff in farm ditches

September 29, 2023
By Michael D Cahn
Minimizing suspended sediments in irrigation runoff is desirable for several reasons. For growers reusing tailwater for watering their crops, they must assure that the water has minimal food safety risks by testing it for generic E coli and/or treating it with chlorine.
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citrus K deficiency
Topics in Subtropics: Article

Leaf Analysis Time of Year

September 29, 2023
By Ben A Faber
If you haven't done it yet, it's that time of year to be doing leaf analysis for citrus and avocados. Analysis prevents deficiency symptoms from appearing and maintains good yields, all else being well done.
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Figure 1: Broomrape species
a: Egyptian broomrape (left) grown in bio-control greenhouse with branched broomrape (right), b: branched broomrape, c: two color morphs of small broomrape, d: ivy broomrape e: dessert broomrape
UC Weed Science (weed control, management, ecology, and minutia): Article

Broomrape Species: ecological insights and economic significance

September 28, 2023
By Brad Hanson
The Orobanchaceae family comprises 270 holoparasitic species that cannot photosynthesize. Instead, they rely entirely on the host plant roots for nutrition, and can produce great numbers of minute, dust-like seeds that last for years in the soil.
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Paulina Rojas, PhD student in the UC Davis Ecology Graduate Group and research project leader Samuel Sandoval Solis, UC Cooperative Expension specialist in water resources managment offering pulque tasting to an event attendee.
Nuestra Comunidad: Article

UC scientists share techniques to sustainably grow agave in California

September 27, 2023
By Diana Cervantes
Tasting event showcases research on production of agave for tequila, mezcal and more A group of University of California researchers and collaborators is developing innovative agricultural techniques for growing agave in California without compromising natural resources.
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Conservation ecologist Paul CaraDonna of the Chicago Botanic Garden and Northwestern University will be the UC Davis Department of Entomology's first speaker in its fall seminar series.
Entomology & Nematology News: Article

Paul CaraDonna Seminar: Understanding Plant-Pollinator Interactions

September 26, 2023
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
Conservation ecologist Paul CaraDonna, who serves as a research scientist at the Chicago Botanic Garden, a professor of instruction at Northwestern University, Illinois, and as a principal investigator at the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory, Gothic, Colo.
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