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DREC: Article

Read with a Beekeeper

October 29, 2020
By Stacey Amparano
Did you miss the live Read with a Farmer event? We now have a pre-recorded session available. Brent Ashurst, a local beekeeper, reads The Beeman by Laurie Krebs. Visit our website to view the recording and the supplemental educator's guide. http://ucanr.
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The Asian giant hornet measures a little less than two inches long. A nest was recently discovered and destroyed near Blaine, Wash. (Photo courtesy of the Washington Department of Agriculture)
Bug Squad: Article

Good News on the Asian-Giant-Hornet News Front

October 27, 2020
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
California this year has faced the COVID-19 pandemic, disastrous wildfires, racial unrest, and political strife--a combination resulting in undue stress and overall fatigue.
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Ranching in the Sierra Foothills: Article

Making the Most of our Fall Feed

October 26, 2020
By Daniel K Macon
or what to do if it just won't rain! Over the last thirty-plus years they've been keeping records at the UC Sierra Foothill Research and Extension Center (SFREC), we've received a germinating rain, on average, around October 21.
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Ag Grant
DREC: Article

Farm Smart October Newsletter

October 26, 2020
By Stacey Amparano
Click here to view our latest newsletter (Below is the newsletter at a glance) AG in the Classroom Grant Deadline: Friday, October 30, 2020 Don't forget to submit your grant applications by October 30, 2020. Send all applications to scwills@ucanr.
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Integrated Weed Management in Rice Systems presentation by Whitney Brim-DeForest
UC Weed Science (weed control, management, ecology, and minutia): Article

Integrated Weed Management Rice Systems

October 26, 2020
By Gale Perez
If you didn't get a chance to listen to Whitney Brim-DeForest's webinar presentation on "Integrated Weed Management Rice Systems" (Part 3 of the UCCE Sutter-Yuba-Colusa Continuing Education Series), here it is: https://www.youtube.
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interconnected root system
Topics in Subtropics: Article

Removing Avocado Suckers with Glyphosate?

October 26, 2020
By Ben A Faber
Ben Faber and Brad Hanson This is not good. You find an avocado tree with sun blotch or it is time to thin the orchard and you remove the offending tree. You know that if you don't remove the sucker, you'll end up with some rootstock growth that just gets in the way of the other trees.
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Professor Diane Ullman of the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology is a co-author of the publication on the Western flower thrips. This image was taken when she was doing research in France.
Bug Squad: Article

Congrats to the Thrips Team!

October 23, 2020
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
Congratulations to the international team of scientists, including UC Davis entomologist and co-author Diane Ullman, on their publication involving the genome analysis of the western flower thrips, an invasive global agricultural pest that feeds on plants and is considered a supervector, spreading p...
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