Agriculture

UC Weed Science (weed control, management, ecology, and minutia): Article

EPA’s Final Herbicide Strategy for ESA: What Could Change

October 21, 2024
By Brad Hanson
Last week, I shared a press release about theEPA's educational materials toolbox related to pesticides and the Endangered Species Act. Today, I wanted tofollowup with another "explainer" document from the Weed Science Society of America about the current version of the Herbicide Strategy.
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laurel wilt stages

Avocado Survey for Ambrosia Beetle

October 18, 2024
By Ben A Faber
Oct 10, 2024 Dr. Paul Rugman-Jones is collaborating with University of Florida researchers on a project called, "Sustaining avocado production in the face of the lethal laurel wilt disease".
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Inside the Avocado

October 14, 2024
By Ben A Faber
A new way of looking at plant nutrition? Frost damage? Disease? Heat damage? Research team at the University of Gttingen develops method for recognizing cell properties Checking whether an avocado is hard or soft by looking at it?
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Ag Help Manual

October 11, 2024
By Ben A Faber
Ag Help Wanted is an educational guidebook designed to assist every person who currently manages or expects to manage human resources on farms, ranches, nurseries, dairies, and other agricultural operations.
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A crab spider eating a lygus bug, an agricultural pest in a Vacaville garden. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Bug Squad: Article

Celebrating the Crab Spider in Arachtober

October 9, 2024
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
It's Arachtober and that means celebrating arachnids for the entire month of October. Well, we ought to celebrate them year around, but October is THEIR month.
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A screen shot from the seminar of apiculturist Juliana Rangel Posada of Texas A&M.
Bug Squad: Article

Learning About the Bees and the Nutrition They Need

October 8, 2024
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
If you missed the eagerly anticipated UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology seminar by apiculturist Juliana Rangel Posada, an associate professor at Texas A&M and an international leader in honey bee research, not to worry. Her Oct. 7th seminar was recorded.
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