Agriculture

There has been a recent expansion of Avocado Lace Bug into parts of the Carpinteria area. It was more or less located in the San Diego coastal area. It spreads mainly with people....... Read about it at the UC-IPM website and the observations of Mark Hoddle, IPM Specialist at UC Riverside.

The alternate bearing (AB) nature of olive is one of the top physiologically-driven challenges faced by olive growers. AB refers to the tree's habit of producing a heavy crop in one year followed by a light crop the next year.

A new report reveals that California farmers participating in the state's Farm to School Incubator Grant Program are increasing sales of fresh, local and organic produce, meat and dairy products to schools, according to researchers evaluating program impacts.

Writing my last blog post as the Livestock and Natural Resources Advisor for Placer, Nevada, Sutter, and Yuba Counties is bittersweet. When I became the advisor in 2017 (filling Roger Ingram's enormous shoes), I assumed I would stay in this job until I retired. Life had other plans for me.

You may have never seen this tiny bug that's causing big trouble. But agriculturists and scientists have. The spotted-wing drosophila (SWD), Drosophila suzukii, is an agricultural pest that is super tiny. It's approximately 2 to 4 millimeters in length with a wingspan of 5 to 6.5 millimeters.

Avocado Irrigation Workshop Avocado Irrigation Workshop October 16 (Wednesday), 2024 2:00 5:00 P.M. UC Cooperative Extension Ventura County (California Room) 669 County Square Dr, Ventura, CA 93003 Workshop registration link: Registration 2:00 - 5:00 p.m.

Informational Videos Covering Fertilizer Application through Irrigation Water Now Available in English and Spanish Nicole Nunes FREP Grant Program Through a grant from the Fertilizer Research and Education Program (FREP), Cal Poly's Irrigation Training and Research Center (ITRC) has developed a seri...

Introduction Traditional winter cereal cover crops planted in the Salinas valley have many potential benefits including, scavenging nitrate in the soil profile, increasing organic matter in the soil, and protecting the soil from erosion during storm events.

From honey bees to butterflies to nematodes--those will be some of the topics when the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology hosts its fall quarter seminars. The seminars begin Monday afternoon, Sept. 30 and continue every Monday through Dec. 2.

F\ig Wax Scale has recently been detected in the environment in the San Diego County. This insect is commonly intercepted at ports of entry, especially on shipments of palms, but has not previously established a reproductive population in California to our knowledge.