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2021 Rice Growers Meeting UPDATED Announcement
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ANNOUNCEMENT :: 2021 Rice Growers Meeting

January 11, 2021
By Gale Perez
Mark your calendar... UC COOPERATIVE EXTENSION presents When: February 11, 2021|9:00 AM-12:00 PM Where: Virtual via Zoom Cost: $10 Click here to REGISTER Click here for AGENDA Continuing education units applied for from CA Department of Pesticide Regulations (DPR) and Certified Crop Advisers (CCA).
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Topics in Subtropics: Article

New Ideas in HLB Management

January 11, 2021
By Ben A Faber
Provided by American Phytopathological Society More information: Nichole A. Ginnan et al, Disease-Induced Microbial Shifts in Citrus Indicate Microbiome-Derived Responses to Huanglongbing Across the Disease Severity Spectrum, Phytobiomes Journal (2020). DOI: 10.
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Large boom sprayers are used to efficiently apply herbicides over agricultural fields. Visual: Will Fuller / Flickr
UC Weed Science (weed control, management, ecology, and minutia): Article

Will rising temperatures make superweeds even stronger?

January 8, 2021
By Gale Perez
By Natasha Gilbert 12.07.2020 Around 10 years ago, in the fierce heat of the Kansas summer, many of the noxious kochia weeds invading Phillip Stahlman's research fields simply wouldn't budge when sprayed with a mixture of two widely used herbicides, glyphosate and dicamba.
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hlb defprmed citrus
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Keeping the Flavor in HLB Resistant Citrus

January 8, 2021
By Ben A Faber
Senior Public Information Officer Email (951) 827-4580 UC Riverside scientists are betting an ancient solution will solve citrus growers' biggest problem by breeding new fruits with natural resistance to a deadly tree disease. New hybrid citrus fruit bred for disease resistance and flavor.
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avocado varieities numbered
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Avocado and Citrus Breeding Programs

January 7, 2021
By Ben A Faber
Authors: Kate Evans, Washington State University, and Michael Coe, Cedar Lakes Research Group, LLC This blog is based on researched published in Crop Science Journal (https://acsess.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/csc2.
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Photo 2. FarmWise Titan autonomous tractor equipped with split knives
UC Weed Science (weed control, management, ecology, and minutia): Article

2020 Evaluations of automated weeders in lettuce production

January 6, 2021
By Richard F Smith, Steven A Fennimore
Elizabeth Mosqueda is an Assistant Professor at the California State University, Monterey Bay. Richard Smith is a Vegetable Crop Production and Weed Science Farm Advisor with UC Cooperative Extension. Steve Fennimore is a Cooperative Extension Weed Specialist at UC Davis.
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A lady beetle searching for aphids on a rosebud in the winter. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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The Amazing Lady Beetles

January 6, 2021
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
If you have roses blooming in your yard in the winter--or trying to bloom--check to see if there's a lady beetle, aka ladybug prowling around. Any aphids? A lady beetle can eat as many as 5000 aphids in its lifetime, so they're the good guys and gals in the garden.
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