Agriculture

This odd pattern that has shown up on polyethylene irrigation tubing was sent in by an observant Santa Paula grower. The fruit trees were covered with aphids and there was sooty mold growing on the honey dew dripping onto the tubing.

The Nevada-Placer-Yuba Disaster Livestock Access Pass Program operated for its second year in 2022. This program, available to commercial livestock producers in the three counties, is the first (and so far, only) multi-county program in California.

With all the rain we're having at the moment, irrigation is likely the last thing on growers' minds, but it's not a bad idea to get an irrigation evaluation scheduled for springtime.

UC Davis alumna and pollinator enthusiast Ria de Grassi didn't have far to travel to win the Robbin Thorp Memorial First-Bumble-Bee-of-the-Year Contest, encompassing the 1930-square-mile area of Solano and Yolo counties.

Before Brent Flory, 22, started bagging fruits and vegetables at his local Stater Bros. Market, he picked them at the University of California South Coast Research and Extension Center in Irvine.

Salts and Soil pH are two of the great management problems we have with subtropical crops like avocado, citrus, passionfruit, coffee and even evergreen blueberries when grown in California. In the western Cascades there are also soils dominated by carbonates and waters by bicarbonates.

Argentine Ant is the great protector of many pests found on plants. Without the Argentine, many pests would not be so much of a problem. In many crops, like cherimoya and passionfruit, mealy bug can become so severe that fruit will stop growing and fall off the tree.

CropManage Hands-on Workshop Bringing Irrigation and Nutrient Management Decision-Support Tool to the Field Date: Wednesday, February 15, 2023 1pm 5pm Location: University of California Cooperative Extension-Stanislaus County Harvest Hall, Room E 3800 Cornucopia Way, Modesto, CA 95358 Learn how to...

CropManage Hands-on Workshop Bringing Irrigation and Nutrient Management Decision-Support to the Field Date: Wednesday, January 18th, 2023 10:30 am 2 pm Location: Watsonville Public Library 275 Main St.

CropManage Hands-on Workshop Bringing Irrigation and Nutrient Management Decision-Support to the Field Date: Wednesday, January 18th, 2023 10:30 am 2 pm Location: Watsonville Public Library 275 Main St.