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Ryan J Hill, UCCE Tehama County, Agronomy and Weed Science Advisor
Preemergent herbicides are a valuable tool in an orchard’s integrated weed management plan. If you survey a room full of growers, you will get answers across the board as to when it is best to apply preemergent herbicides in almonds. Do you apply after ... Read More
Kat Jarvis-Shean, Orchard Systems Advisor UCCE Sacramento-Solano-Yolo
Depending on where you grow and how you count, this is shaping up to be a low-to-moderate chill winter. As discussed previously in 2023 and 2024, walnuts are one of the highest chill requirement tree crops in California. Multiple recent winters have fallen short of the ... Read More
North Sac Valley: Jaime Ott, UCCE Tehama, Shasta, Glenn, Butte Counties
Despite a much earlier bloom than last year, harvest started only a few days earlier. Fruit size and sugar at harvest was variable: blocks with heavy cropload or which suffered from water stress during the season struggled with size and sugar. ... Read More
Recent years of research by the Zwieniecki lab (the Z Lab) at UC Davis, including the Carbohydrate Observatory, have been providing exciting new insights to better explain how pistachios may be counting winter chill, when budbreak occurs, and how much pistachios will yield in a given year.
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In late May 2024, unusual symptoms on leaves, including yellow spots and orange to dark red-brown blotches, were detected in an almond orchard (Nonpareil, Monterey and Fritz) on the border of Merced and Madera counties.
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Bloom Management, Diseases, Economics, Horticulture, Insects & Mites, Irrigation, Weed Control, Year-Round Management
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Cost and Expense Considerations, Diseases, Flood Damage, Horticulture, Insects & Mites, Irrigation, Walnut Orchard Development, Weed Control, Year-Round Management
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