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Low-severity wildland fires and prescribed burns have long been presumed by scientists and resource managers to be harmless to soils, but this may not be the case, new research shows.

Recent and recurring fires are a problem where both citrus and avocado are grown in California.The winter forecast is out from NOAA and it looks like there might be frost in our future. What do you do if it hits your trees? https://www.noaa.

The following is a compendium of blogs for growers to help with the recent fire damage in the Ventura area: Tree and Vine Loss Calculators Spread sheets to help you calculate loss Calculate Cost of Fire Damage to Avocado and Citrus Trees Information from Ben Faber, Soils and Water, Avocado and Minor...

You may not have heard of USDA plant explorers David Fairchild and Palemon Howard Dorsett, but they are among those who have had the greatest impact on what we eat in the United States.

Hans Jenny (1899-1992) was a soils teacher at UC Berkeley, a pedologist. He distilled the factors that drive soil formation into an equation signified as CLORPT. The CLimate, Organisms, Relief, Parent material and Time that create soil.