Agriculture

Western spotted cucumber beetles know how to hit the spot. Make that "multiple spots." These beetles, Diabrotica undecimpunctata, are agricultural pests that feed on roots, seedlings, flowers and foliage. And they can transmit diseases.

CASI honored with SWCS 2022 Conservation Innovation Award - August 2, 2022 August 4, 2022 California's Conservation Agriculture Systems Innovation (CASI) Center was recognized as the recipient of the 2022 Conservation Innovation Award by the Soil and Water Conservation Society at their Annual Confer...

Lisa Morehouse https://www.kqed.org/news/11919000/ojais-famous-pixie-tangerine-struggles-to-survive-wildfires-and-a-hot-real-estate-market On his organic orchard in Ojai in May 2022, Jim Churchill picks the last of the season's Pixies.

August 17 (1-3 PM) Live Seminar and Hybrid Zoom Topic Speakers: Mary Lu Arpaia - UC Riverside Extension Specialist/Plant Breeder Avocado Varieties: Current status and crystal ball gazing towards the future Consuelo Fernandez - Brokaw Nursery R&D Manager Performance of Commercially Available Rootstoc...

As another potentially devastating wildfire season begins, California is facing a shortage of wildland firefighters.

En 2005 la muerte de una trabajadora agrcola ubicada al este de Stockton, California puso en evidencia los sufrimientos de los jornaleros durante el verano.

The death of a farmworker on May 14, 2005, east of Stockton, California, highlighted the sufferings of day laborers during the summer. Mara Isabel Vsquez Jimnez, originally from Oaxaca, Mexico, 17 years old and two months pregnant, worked in a vineyard in temperatures above 95 degrees.

Useful Weed Identification Tools The UC Statewide Integrated Pest Management Program's website contains many useful features to help identify pests and problems in the garden and home.

During the 11th annual National Moth Week, one thing's for sure: Beekeepers won't be celebrating the beauty, life cycle, or habitat of the Greater Wax Moth (Galleria mellonella), also known as "the honeycomb moth." It's a major pest of bee colonies that aren't maintained well.

Eric Hamilton Eric.hamilton@ufl.edu Root-farming gophers might be our closest agricultural relatives Although you'll probably never see them, you can spot them by the tell-tale mounds of sandy soil dotting a field: pocket gophers.