Agriculture

Folks new to the world of working livestock guardian dogs (LGDs), whether they are producers or dog aficionados, often ask, What's the best breed? or What breed is your dog?

In a recent meeting the topic of where to go for irrigation information came up. Well there's no substitute for attending a class in irrigation, such as offered at Cal Poly SLO (http://www.itrc.org/classes/iseclass.htm , but here's some written sources to get you started thinking. http://ciwr.ucanr.

Farm Advisor UCCE Ventura County Plants, therefore avocados, go through different growth stages, so called phenological stages, regular periods where they grow and differentiate from seed to various vegetative stages, flowering and finally seed production.

The vacant lots around your neighborhood could be growing fruits and vegetables and making local produce more accessible while reducing energy needed to transport and distribute the food.

From Siskiyou County through Riverside County, University of California Agriculture and Natural Resources has hired UC Cooperative Extension experts to help Californians address challenging issues.

We have had some interesting calls lately concerning issues we do not usually see in the fields. We have received calls about small circular areas with snipped rice in fields west of I-5.

Growing up in Upper Lake, along the North Shore of Clear Lake, Matthew Barnes lived near several of the Lake County region's seven federally recognized tribes.

Phytoplasma Diseases of Palms in the USA Robert R Krueger1 and Brian W Bahder2 1USDA-ARS National Clonal Germplasm Repository for Citrus & Date, Riverside, CA 2Dept of Entomology & Nematology, University of Florida Fort Lauderdale Research & Education Center, Davie, FL Phytoplasmas are plant pathoge...

El programa CalFresh Healthy Living y Jardineros Maestros de UC se unen a la organizacin no lucrativa MORE en el condado de El Dorado Cosechan frutas y verduras, aprenden sobre las partes comestibles de una planta y plagas y participan en una serie de clases sobre cocina saludable y segura, todo con...

As we gather to celebrate moths during National Moth Week (traditionally held the last full week in July and to be observed areawide on Saturday night, July 20 at the Bohart Museum of Entomology at UC Davis), folks single out their favorites and non-favorites. For the beekeepers that's easy.