Agriculture

It's Veterans' Day, the day we officially salute, honor and commemorate our military veterans. Let's pay special tribute to the servicemen and women who left the family farm to serve in our military. They were the farmers who fed the nation.

If you attended the Entomological Society of America's 2021 meeting last week in Denver, you probably saw a monarch laying eggs. That is, you saw a photograph of a Danaus plexippus ovipositing. The image, by Joe Virbickis of Washington, Ill.

La fresa tiene todo para conquistar paladares, un rojo atractivo, es jugosita, dulce, nutritiva y contiene pocas caloras, de ah que no es de extraar su alta demanda en el mercado. Es uno de los 10 cultivos ms importantes en California y podra seguir conquistando nuevos mercados.

by koestoyo University of Florida researchers publish award-winning findings on orange grove design to produce fruit under HLB FORT PIERCE, Fla. The American Society for Horticultural Science will honor University of Florida scientists for new guidelines citrus growers may apply to their operations.

November 10, 2021 Sobering findings in reduced soil disturbance organic vegetable production farm evaluations For the past three years, a group of experienced organic vegetable farmers along with several University and private sector partners has been evaluating a host of reduced tillage or soil dis...

November 10, 2021 Fresno State Plant Science researchers begin year 5 of cover crop roller study New paradigms for crop production are being tested in what has now evolved to be the fifth straight year of research by Fresno State researchers on the use of a roller crimper to kill winter cover crops...

Postdoctoral scholar Fatemeh Ganjisaffar of the Frank Zalom lab, UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology, will present a virtual seminar on Wednesday, Nov. 10 on "Addressing an Evolving Invasive Species Crisis: Insecticide Resistance Management and Behavioral Control of Drosophila suzukii.

Our friend Lynn Sosnoskie (at Cornell University) shared the following announcement with us: A free (downloadable) resource Manage Weeds on Your Farm A Guide to Ecological Strategies Manage-Weeds-on-Your-Farm.pdf (sare.

In late February, in an almond orchard in the Sacramento Valley, the fall-planted cover crop mix of grasses, brassicas and legumes had barely produced a green fuzz above the soil surface, and it was unclear when it would bloom.

The 2021 Field Day for Nematode Management in Walnuts and Almonds will be held Nov 30, 2021 from 12:00pm to 4:00pm.