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April, 2020 CAS/CAC/UC Avocado Grower Meetings Seminar Presentation Document The original field meeting for avocado growers was canceled this year.

From: Citrus Industry, http://citrusindustry.net/2020/05/14/lemons-hit-hard-by-covid-19-losses/ May 14, 2020California Corner, COVID-19, lemons Lemon growers are seeing good production this year, but the market for choice lemons has been ruined by COVID-19 food-service industry losses.

An Automated Delivery System for Therapeutic Materials to Treat HLB Infected Citrus Ozgur Batuman1 and Louise Ferguson2 Southwest Florida Research and Education Center, University of Florida, Immokalee, FL; 2UC Davis, Department of Plant Sciences, University of California Davis, Davis CA Why is this...

The calls have come in. We've gone from cool to hot and Dry Root Rot of Lemon has struck, It's shocking how fast the trees go down. Dry Root Rot has menaced growers in Ventura County for many years. In the 50's and 60's it seemed most prevalent on older orange trees.

What Can Happen With Too Much Rain? Rain is wonderful stuff. If it comes and washes the accumulated salts of the last several years out of the root zones of citrus and avocado, that's a good thing.