Merced

See attached flyer for a University of California Cooperative Extension (UCCE) Field Day at the West Side Research and Extension Center near Five Points, CA.

A quick blog post today to share a recent edition of "TechLine - Invasive Plant News" that I was forwarded recently.

Here's an article from the Sweetpotato Tips newsletter on hotbed cost production. Click here for a direct link to the January 2013 edition. PRODUCTION NOTESHotbeds Hotbeds begin soon.

Several field experiments were conducted to evaluate the performance of pre-emergence herbicides, herbicide rates, and tankmix combinations at different locations in the Central Valley of California and to compare the efficacy of burndown herbicides in mixture with different pre-emergence herbicides...

UC Cooperative Extension Farm Advisor David Doll is organizing a "Central San Joaquin Valley Summer Almond Field Day" on June 1, 2012. More info HERE or in the agenda at the bottom of this post.

Californias Conservation Agriculture Systems Institute (CASI) has prepared its survey of tillage management acreage for 2010.

I spoke last week at the Central San Joaquin Valley Summer Almond Meeting (in Merced, CA) as part of a program that encompassed the almond industry, insect pests, disease managemment and weed control among other topics.

Heres another good reason to be kind to ladybugs. But we are, arent we? EurekAlert! alerted us Jan. 6 to a study relating that an abundance of ladybugs in olive orchards is an indicator of health and sustainability.