Topics in Subtropics

Avocado Irrigation
April 16 (1 -3 PM)
 

Water Knowledge is
Power Knowledge

In-Person and Zoom
 
Topics and Speakers
 
Sources of ET information and their Reliability
By Ali Montazar - UCCE Irrigation Advisor, Imperial/San Diego/ Riverside counties
 
 
Selecting Irrigation Emitters-Drip vs Microsprinkler
Stu Styles - Cal Poly SLO Irrigation Training and Education Center
 
We would love to meet you in person at
The San Diego County Farm Bureau (420 S Broadway, Escondido, CA 92025)
 

If you cannot attend the meeting, register through our Zoom link.
 
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Worms?

March 18th, 2024
By Ben A Faber
This is a common expression to describe the larval stage of Lepidoptera. But they are only "worms" in the sense of their Proto Indo-European word origin meaning to "to twist" of "turn", snake or dragon like. Anyway, they aren't earthworms and they don't even taste like earthworms.
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Red Scale Alert

March 14th, 2024
California red scale season has started in the SJV Sandipa Gautam - Citrus IPM Advisor Based on traps placed at LREC citrus blocks, California red scale season began with Biofix on March 10.
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irrigATING CITRUS
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HOW to IRRIGATE in ONE text

March 13th, 2024
By Ben A Faber
Microirrigation for Crop Production: Design, Operation, and Management, Second Edition is the latest release in this go-to foundational resource for the basics of engineering and the science of the design and operation of micoirrigation systems.
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Staying Up to Date on Fruit Flies

March 11th, 2024
By Ben A Faber
Invasive Fruit Flies California is currently experiencing an unusually high?number?of invasive fruit fly?detections, resulting in quarantines being established across numerous California counties, including Ventura County.
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IRCHLB 2023
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International Research Conference on HLB - Riverside

March 8th, 2024
By Ben A Faber
International Research Conference on HLB Here in California The International Research Conference on Huanglongbing VII (IRCHLB VII) is just around the corner! The California citrus industry is excited to welcome researchers, regulators, and citrus industry members from around the world to the Golden...
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