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  REGISTER TODAY!2025 CRB Citrus Growers Educational Webinar SeriesTakes Place June 10 and 17The Citrus Research Board (CRB) is excited to host the 2025 Citrus Growers Educational Webinar Series. CRB will be holding two one-hour webinars, scheduled for June 10 and 17, which will highlight…

Snap vs ClipWe were out harvesting GEM avocados the other day and what a set of gymnastics it can require to get at the fruit stem or peduncle to make a nice cut.  The peduncle on the GEM can be quite long – up to 12 inches - and it gets wrapped around its sister fruit stems and also around branches and…

Registration Now Open!The 2025 International Microirrigation School For Crop Production will be offered for the first time in California on October 13-17, 2025. It will involve three days of instruction at the University of California at Davis, and two days of field trips in the San Joaquin Valley and…

INTERNATIONAL MICROIRRIGATION SCHOOL FOR CROP PRODUCTION The 2025 International Microirrigation School for Crop Production will be offered in California for the very first time, October 13–17, 2025. This one‑time, intensive program combines three days of classroom instruction at the University of…

Cover Cropping in Water Scarce Environments.Sustainable Conservation and the California Alliance with Family Farmers, along with University of California Agriculture and Natural Resources, California Department of Food & Agriculture, and other partners, have released a new guidance document — Cover…