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SACRAMENTO An additional portion of Fresno County along its southern border with Tulare County has been placed under quarantine for the Asian citrus psyllid (ACP) following the detections of ACP in two locations in an unincorporated area of northern Tulare County near the City of Orange Cove.

The University of California Conservation Agriculture Systems Innovation Center (CASI) has named Darrell and Trevor Cordova of Denair recipients of the 2014 Conservation Tillage Farmer Innovator Award.

Female (top), male and female in copulation (middle) and a mature nymph (bottom) of Bagrada bug on a dime. (Photo by Surendra Dara) Bagrada bug (Bagrada hilaris) is an invasive pest that was first reported in California in 2008 in Los Angeles County.

California's Conservation Agriculture Systems Innovation (CASI) Center, in partnership with Sustainable Conservation and the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service, has prepared its survey of tillage management acreage for 2012.

This article was originally prepared for the CWSS Research Update and News (September 2014 edition). You can see it and several other articles at the CWSS website.

The belief that an unrivaled record of productivity, deep soils and dry climate mean conservation agriculture doesn't apply in California is flat wrong, said Jeff Mitchell, UC Cooperative Extension specialist in the Department of Plant Sciences at UC Davis.

From the UC Green Blog :: June 5, 2014 :: by Jeannette Warnert One of the worst rangeland weeds in the West is aptly named after a monster in Greek mythology that has writhing snakes instead of hair.

(This article summarizes California Department of Pesticide Regulations online VOC information.) Its that time of year again when hot weather fuels the creation of ground-level ozone, also called smog. High levels of ozone can harm people and crops.

See attached flyer for a University of California Cooperative Extension (UCCE) Field Day at the West Side Research and Extension Center near Five Points, CA.

INTRODUCTION When and how olives are harvested are among the most important factors in both the quantity and quality, and therefore value of processed table olives and olive oil.