Agriculture

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When you're drinking your daily cup of Joe to power your day, do you ever think about coffee plantation pests, such as the coffee borer beetle, aka coffee berry borer, Hypothenemus hampei? Agroecologist Estel Jimnez-Soto, a postdoctoral scholar/lecturer at UC Santa Cruz, does.

By sustainablesecurefoodblog Not many of us see Model T cars on the road today. This 1920's era car made car travel accessible for the middle class, but its last production was in 1927. Yet, some of the engineering that went into the Model T still has an impact on today's cars.

The rain situation was beginning to look dire for our region before last week, with most major storms passing to the north of Monterey county. However, the storms that occurred last week were generated by an atmospheric river that was focused on the southern part of Monterey County.

A colleague at Ohio State University (sorry, I mean The Ohio State University) shared a recent series of extension publications they put together related to specialty crop injury from the auxininic herbicides dicamba and 2,4-D.

A group of California farmers will share their experiences improving soil health in cotton production by growing cover crops, reducing tillage, applying compost and other practices during an online session at 11 a.m. Feb. 23.

University of Florida entomology professor Bryony Bonning, an eminent scholar with close ties to the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology, is the recipient of the Entomological Society of America's 2020 Recognition Award in Insect Physiology, Biochemistry and Toxicology (PBT).

"About 90 percent of all bees are actually solitary. So despite kind of the public impression that all bees are like honey bees and bumble bees, we have a lot of these bees that are living on their own.

Grace Woodmansee recently joined UC Cooperative Extension as the new Siskiyou County Livestock and Natural Resources Advisor. Grace grew up in Chico and spent her childhood in 4-H raising market lambs and being actively involved in club leadership.