Agriculture

The late Mary Foley Benson would have been proud.

Cover crops offer many potential benefits including improving soil health but not knowing the costs can be a barrier for growers who want to try this practice.

Irrigation Stress and Early-Navel Fruit Maturity Craig Kallsen UC Cooperative Extension Farm Advisor, Subtropical Horticulture and Pistachio, Kern County To maximize profits in the early navel orange market, growers need to have large fruit size and sufficient yellow-orange color and a high enough s...

Results for the 2021-2022 fall-planted UC Small Grain Variety Trials are now available at: http://smallgrains.ucanr.edu/Variety_Selection/ Due to changing trends in California small grain production, there is a growing need for information on variety-specific forage biomass productivity.

Once you know what a dragon fruit looks like, you will never forget it. The bright red, sometimes yellow or purple, scaly skin makes for a dramatic appearance. One that will surely leave an impression.

Natural enemies have significantly suppressed Asian citrus psyllid populations in southern California Ivan Milosavljevi, Department of Entomology, University of California, Riverside, CA Christina D. Hoddle, Department of Entomology, University of California, Riverside, CA David J.W.

Visitors at the Bohart Museum of Entomology open house, themed "Weird and Wonderful Wasps," learned about wasps and other insects, crafted gall ghosts, and took selfies with Madagascar hissing cockroaches and stick insects. It was the first special event of the fall season.

As the drought continues on the central coast, growers are trying to utilize water as efficiently as possible to produce their crops. Retaining and reusing sprinkler runoff, also referred to as tail water, can be an important strategy to increasing water conservation.

They came to learn about wasps--"The Weird and Wonderful Wasps"--at the recent open house hosted by the Bohart Museum of Entomology, UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology. They learned about such wasps as the Asian giant hornet (aka "murder hornets"), pteromalids, and fig wasps.

A lot of work has been put into monitoring the Brown Marmorated Stink Bug (BMSB), Halyomorpha halys (Hemitpera: Pentatomidae). It has been a major problem in many areas of the country, as well as California.