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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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Avocados and Cover Crops

July 30th, 2021
By Ben A Faber
Alli Rowe-Fish and Ben Faber Cover crops offer an important opportunity to build soil health in avocado orchards. A cover crop is a crop seeded or encouraged as natural plant cover as an investment in soil fertility and not as a cash crop.
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Avocado Lace Bug Video

July 26th, 2021
By Ben A Faber
The avocado lace bug (Pseudacysta perseae, family Tingidae) occurs in the Caribbean, French Guyana, Mexico, and southeastern United States. As of 2006, in California it occurs only in San Diego County. Also known as the camphor lace bug, this pest feeds on certain plants in the family Lauraceae.
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All WE Know About Avocado Wilt Disease

July 23rd, 2021
By Ben A Faber
The redbay ambrosia beetle, Xyleborus glabratus, and its fungal symbiont, Raffaelea lauricola (Rl), were introduced into Port Wentworth, Georgia, USA, in infested wood packing material from Asia during 2002.
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If It's Brown, Leave It on the Ground

July 21st, 2021
By Ben A Faber
For quite some time, farmers and researchers have been focusing on how to bind carbon to soil. Doing so makes food crops more nutritious and increases yields.
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Digging Into the Literature

July 19th, 2021
By Ben A Faber
1 to 20 of 47,867 Full-Text results on Avocado https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/ls?field1=ocr;q1=avocado;a=srchls;lmt=ft 47,867 full text articles and books on avocado. The digital world brings more avocado information to you. In the case of avocado, 47,867 citations with full text.
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