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Deciduous Fruit Tree Production Course

January 23, 2023
By Ben A Faber
Planning and Planting the Small Orchard Block February 23-26, 2023 Course Overview This new short course will offer a wealth of information from orchard expert, Orin Martin, long-time manager of the Alan Chadwick Garden and instructor at the UC Santa Cruz Center for Agroecology.
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Cal Fire senior environmental specialist Curtis Ewing shows a coast live oak with cankers and flatheaded borer damage.

Beetle Mania to Descend on the Bohart

January 20, 2023
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
The beetles are coming! The beetles are coming! From boring beetles to burying beetles...and beetles from Belize and more... And you're invited. The Bohart Museum of Entomology is hosting an open house, themed "Beetles," from 1 to 4 p.m., Sunday, Jan.
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Soil Heath and its Impact on Soilborne Disease

January 19, 2023
By Kelley L Sivertson
Richard Smith1, Eric Brennan2, JP Dundore Arias3, Daniel Geisseler4, Peter Henry2, Danyal Kasapligil5, Nicholas LeBlanc2, Karen Lowell6, Jeff Mitchell4, Joji Muramoto7, Radomir Schmidt4, Kate Scow4 and Yu-Chen Wang1 1 UCCE Monterey; 2 USDA ARS, Salinas; 3 CSU, Monterey Bay; 4 UC Davis; 5 De La...
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lemon sheepnose
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Lemon Sheepnose

January 13, 2023
By Ben A Faber
If the citrus fruit has a swollen stem end, it's called "sheepnose" and it's a swollen nipple or blossom end, it's also called "sheepnose". A swollen nipple is much more common. The fruit also tends to be coarse and the skin thick.
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