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Avocado Irrigation
April 16 (1 -3 PM)
 

Water Knowledge is
Power Knowledge

In-Person and Zoom
 
Topics and Speakers
 
Sources of ET information and their Reliability
By Ali Montazar - UCCE Irrigation Advisor, Imperial/San Diego/ Riverside counties
 
 
Selecting Irrigation Emitters-Drip vs Microsprinkler
Stu Styles - Cal Poly SLO Irrigation Training and Education Center
 
We would love to meet you in person at
The San Diego County Farm Bureau (420 S Broadway, Escondido, CA 92025)
 

If you cannot attend the meeting, register through our Zoom link.
 
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Another Type of Farming

December 23, 2020
By Ben A Faber
Agritourism Intensive 2021; Virtual class starts soon in SLO County University of California Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Program (UC SAREP) and UC Cooperative Extension have partnered with SLO Farm Bureau, FARMstead ED, SLO Farm Trail, Visit SLO CAL, Paso Robles Wine Country Allia...
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Water Monitoring Orchard Rover

December 21, 2020
By Ben A Faber
HollyOber. UC Riverside News, holly.ober@ucr.edu https://news.ucr.edu/articles/2020/11/19/robot-tells-growers-when-water-crops-way Every backyard gardener knows how hard it can be to tell when to water the plants.
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CA Horticulture Data

December 18, 2020
By Ben A Faber
California Horticulture Sales Reach $2.63 Billion in 2019 U.S. Horticulture Operations Report $13.8 Billion in Sales Sacramento, CA, Dec. 9, 2020 On Tuesday, December 8, the U.S.
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Plant Derivatives for Citrus HLB?

December 16, 2020
By Ben A Faber
Plants get bacterial infections, just as humans do. When food crops and trees are infected, their yield and quality can suffer. Although some compounds have been developed to protect plants, few of them work on a wide variety of crops, and bacteria are developing resistance.
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HLB Breakthrough

December 14, 2020
By Ben A Faber
Paul Schattenberg 210-859-5752 paschattenberg@ag.tamu.edu Texas A&M AgriLife researchers have made a discovery that will help combat fastidious pathogens, which cost U.S. agriculture alone billions of dollars annually. Kranthi Mandadi, Ph.D., inspects a grapefruit for citrus greening.
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