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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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Typical basket composition for Monterey fruit picked May 20, after an inch of rain and evaluated May 22..
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Water Damage on Strawberry

May 22, 2019
By Mark P Bolda
The fairly heavy rains over the past weekend (1.06" from CIMIS station #111 in Watsonville), have given people concern about what sort of damage our strawberry crop has sustained.
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Flight Practice Session
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DroneCamp Scholarship Fund Focus of June 5 #BigDigDay Campaign

May 20, 2019
By Andrew J Lyons
To support broad participation for next month's DroneCamp in Monterey, IGIS has launched the DroneCamp Scholarship Program. DroneCamp is an intensive three-day workshop that covers everything one needs to know to use drones for mapping and data collection.
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Alejandro Del Pozo-Valdivia, UC Cooperative Extension entomology advisor in Monterey, Santa Cruz and San Benito counties, in an iceberg lettuce field in Chualar, Calif.
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UCCE advisor is tracking down answers to a lettuce aphid mystery

May 17, 2019
When Alejandro Del Pozo-Valdivia started his new job as UC Cooperative Extension entomology advisor in the Salinas Valley last year, he immediately faced an urgent problem in organic lettuce production. Pest control advisers were finding lettuce aphids in plants that were supposed to be resistant.
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Dimondback moth captures collected on 5-7-19
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Latest information on pest populations in vegetables

May 11, 2019
We are happy to announce that the diamondback moth capture data, presented as maps, is now housed in our own University of California Cooperative Extension Monterey website. To access to these maps, simply click on the link below: http://cemonterey.ucanr.
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Marisa Coyne
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Names in the News

April 30, 2019
By Pamela S Kan-Rice
Coyne named Master Gardener volunteer engagement coordinator Marisa Coyne is now the academic coordinator - volunteer engagement for UC Master Gardener Program as of April 8.
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