Salinas Valley Agriculture

Hi! I am Yu-Chen Wang! I am the new plant pathology advisor serving Santa Cruz, Monterey, and San Benito counties. I am very happy to be here to join and serve the local community. I look forward to seeing your disease problems and learning more about the industry here.

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As the drought continues on the central coast, growers are trying to utilize water as efficiently as possible to produce their crops. Retaining and reusing sprinkler runoff, also referred to as tail water, can be an important strategy to increasing water conservation.

Authors: Ben Lee, Daniel Hasegawa, Ian Grettenberger We would like to announce the creation of a new web-based tool that will provide more seamless access to pest population data from a pest trapping network. Pests included are thrips, diamondback moth, and aphids.

Once again, we are experiencing a prolonged heat wave in the Salinas Valley. Maximum air temperature in the King City area reached 112 F earlier in the week (Fig. 1).