Agriculture

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.

Hay nuevas estrategias para salvar un grano crucial para la alimentacin de la humanidad Las plantas son como nosotros, tambin tienen tcnicas para lidiar con el estrs.

La demanda de los alimentos orgnicos crece rpidamente en todo el pas. Alrededor del 5 por ciento de todos los alimentos que se venden en los supermercados son orgnicos y se proyecta un aumento del 6 por ciento cada ao.

En la actualidad, cuando los incendios forestales alcanzan dimensiones cada vez ms impresionantes, arrasando con miles de rboles que arden en la alta intensidad del fuego, expertos de la Universidad de California han estado analizando cules son los factores ambientales que podran ayudar a predecir l...

Entre los conocedores de los naranjos, es bien sabido que el Naranjo Madre, es una especie muy resistente y por esa razn Tom Delfino, ex director de la Sociedad de Viveros de Ctricos de California, recomend al viejo naranjo para el programa de proteccin.

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Sudangrass (Sorghum bicolor L.) is a type of sorghum which is widely grown for hay, greenchop or grazing systems. Typically over 50,000 acres of sudangrass are grown for hay in the Imperial Valley of California, much of it exported to Japan.