Agriculture

General situation: The main season crop is in the ground and developing well as we head into high summer. The next 10 days is forecast to range from the high 70's to mid 90's, which is ideal conditions for thrips to develop.

General situation: The main season crop is in the ground and developing quickly. The next 10 days is forecast to range from the high 70's to mid 90's, which is ideal conditions for thrips to develop.

General situation: The main season crop is in the ground and mostly well-established in the northern end of the San Joaquin Valley. The next 10 days is forecast to range from the high 70's to mid 90's, which is ideal conditions for thrips to develop.

General situation: The main season crop is in the ground across the northern counties and canopies are filling out the beds nicely. The next 10 days is forecast to range from the high 70's to mid 90's, which is ideal conditions for thrips to develop.

The late Robbin Thorp, UC Davis distinguished emeritus professor of entomology, would have been proud of the California Bumble Bee Atlas and its conservation plans.

Register now for the Sierra Foothills Cattle & Sheep Grazing School! If you look back far enough in the histories of most foothill cattle operations, you'll find... SHEEP! Believe it or not, many long-time cattle operations also had sheep at one time.

Citrus Research Board | May 2022 CRB 2022 Webinar Series The Citrus Research Board (CRB) is excited to announce the return of the 2022 Citrus Growers Educational Webinar Series. CRB will be holding four one-hour webinars starting June 7.

UC Davis doctoral candidate Maureen Page, who investigates the impacts of increasing honey bee abundance on plant-pollinator interactions and plant pollination, will present her exit seminar on "Impacts of Managed Honey Bees on Plant-Pollinator Mutualisms" at 10 a.m.

Monitoring California red scale populations by using pheromone traps and degree days California red scale is an armored scale that attacks all citrus varieties.

We were recently bird watching on one of the sky islands in southern Arizona. It was pretty impressive, the diversity of birds and BRIGHT colors compared to those in the Ventura area. Arizona locals, though, were saying numbers were way down. Why? Less and fewer berries and insects to feed on.