Agriculture

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.

California inundated with invasive fruit flies Bodil Cass Extension Subtropics Entomologist, Dept of Entomology, UCR California is experiencing an unusually high number of invasive fruit fly infestations.

That's the key takeaway from a recent paper published by a team that included UC Merced and UC Agriculture and Natural Resources researchers. The paper dives into what those challenges are, how farmers are working to address them and what should come next.

You may have missed it, or you may want to relive it.

The way the strawberry industry grows plants really makes them a subtropical plant. The industry is located along the coast from Monterrey to San Diego, with the bulk around Salinas, Santa Maria and Oxnard. Oleg Daugovish looks after this industry from our office in Ventura.

In California's Northern San Joaquin Valley, crop leftovers such as almond shells, fruit peels and orchard trimmings can potentially be converted into sustainable bioproducts and biofuels with the right technology.

Symptoms of red leaf blotch (RLB), a plant disease caused by the fungus Polystigma amygdalinum, have been observed for the first time in California across the Northern San Joaquin Valley.

Satellite-based irrigation tools to manage irrigation water more precisely in avocado groves Ali Montazar, UCCE Irrigation and Water Management Advisor in San Diego, Riverside, and Imperial Counties The water requirement of a crop must be satisfied to achieve optimum potential yields.

Microirrigation systems include microsprinklers for tree crops, drip emitters for trees, vines, and some row crops, and drip tape for row and field crops. Microirrigation systems apply water to the soil through emitters that are installed along drip lines and contain very small flow passages.