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Valley Lemons?

June 21, 2019
By Ben A Faber
What about Planting Lemons in Kern County? By Craig Kallsen, UC Cooperative Extension Advisor, Kern County Kern County is located at the southern end of the San Joaquin Valley of California.
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Replant Vicissitudes

June 17, 2019
By Ben A Faber
Replanting Trees in Mature Citrus Groves By Craig Kallsen, UC Cooperative Extension Advisor, Kern County While citrus groves are long-lived, the individual trees that compose the grove are not necessarily so.
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CDFA Grant Help

June 7, 2019
By Ben A Faber
Introducing your new information source for CDFA grants, Kern County and Ventura County Shulamit Shroder and Alli Rowe are two of the newest members to UC Cooperative Extension. Shulamit is based out of Kern County and serves Kern, Tulare, and King Counties.
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A honey bee and a Painted Lady share a mustard blossom in Vacaville, Calif. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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The Bee and the Butterfly

June 5, 2019
The bee and the butterfly. The honey bee and the Painted Lady. Apis mellifera and Vanessa cardui. They both wanted to sip that sweet nectar from a mustard blossom. The Painted Lady was there first. Sometimes it's "first come, first served" and sometimes it's "I'll have what she's having.
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May 2019 News Clips (May 16-31)

June 1, 2019
By Pamela S Kan-Rice
Managing sudden oak death proves tricky (Eureka Times-Standard) Sonia Waraich, May 31 Sudden oak death was discovered in the state in the mid-1990s and has had a devastating impact on coastal forests, killing over a million trees on the West Coast including in Humboldt County.
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Spotlight on Healthy Soils: Quaker Oaks Farm

May 30, 2019
Thanks to special guest author Shulamit Shroder for a glance at a Healthy Soils Program grant in action. Shulamit is Kern County's UCCE climate smart agriculture specialist. Quaker Oaks Farm is a small nonprofit farm in Tulare County, near Visalia.
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SWEEPing Citrus

May 24, 2019
By Ben A Faber
Spotlight on SWEEP in Citrus Shulamit Shroder, UCCE climate smart agriculture specialist - Kern County In 2014, Bruce Kelsey in Kern County received a grant through the California Department of Food and Agriculture's State Water Efficiency and Enhancement Program (SWEEP).
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Communications Advisory Board seeks new members

May 14, 2019
By Pamela S Kan-Rice
The advisory board to ANR Communication Services and Information Technology (CSIT) is seeking to fill positions. Nominations for Communications Advisory Board membership can include, but are not limited to, specialists, advisors and faculty affiliated with UC ANR.
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Ventura Grown Cover Crops

May 13, 2019
Petty Ranch, a story of cover crops in Ventura County. All of the lemon trees were dying. Sigh. Another distressing story about agriculture in the face of climate change, rising land values, difficult economies, and soil degradation.
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