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Presented by California Avocado Society, Inc., California Avocado Commission, and University of California Cooperative Extension Download all year PDF here. Speakers: Mark Hoddle: Extension Specialist in Biological Control at University of California, Riverside Avocado pests currently here.

Harry S. Smith, was born in 1883 to a poor farming family in Nebraska. He was trained in Biological Control in the northeast U.S.A. where he worked on the biological control of gypsy moth with the USDA.

Here is a really good introduction to the use of the on-line Soil Survey from USDA. Maybe it is easier to follow than blogs I have posted in the past. WASHINGTON Soil don't get no respect, Rodney Dangerfield might have said (but didn't).

When avocados are converted from one variety to another or in the case of severe frost or fire damage and there is still a healthy root system, sucker grafting should be considered. This can lead to more rapid production and is one of the easiest, most successful grafting procedures.

Wow, woolly whitefly covered with waxy, curly filaments , Aleurothrixus floccosus.