Ventura

Landscape trees provide welcome shade, fruit, homes for wildlife, and even a place for kids to climb. But if the wood is damaged, disease-causing fungi can infect the tree. A number of fungal diseases decay wood in both tree branches and trunks, weakening and sometimes killing the tree.

Registration is now open for Pesticide Safety Instructor Training workshops UC IPM, with support from the Western Center for Agricultural Health and Safety (WCAHS), is offering up-to-date instructor training programs that are approved and co-funded by the California Department of Pesticide Regulatio...

There's a new edition of our Newsletter, edited by Monique Rivera, UC Subtropical Crops Entomologist - https://www.californiaavocadogrowers.com/sites/default/files/documents/10-Meet-Dr-Monique-Rivera-Winter-18.pdf.

From Cressida Silvers ACP/HLB Grower Liaison Ventura, Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo Counties 805 284-3310 Reminder of 2019 Fall ACP Area Wide Management Schedule September 8 - 21: Carpinteria, Summerland, Montecito September 15 - 28: Santa Barbara, Goleta, and the rest of the county Here is the...

Laurel Wilt Disease (LWD) is caused by the fungus Raffaelea lauricola and is transmitted to host trees by the redbay ambrosia beetle (Xyloborus glabratus) (RAB). During 2002 this exotic beetle was introduced into Port Wentworth, GA, via infested solid wood packing material.

Sonia Rios, Area Subtropical Horticulture Advisor, Riverside & San Diego Counties Henry Herrera, Forester, California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (CAL FIRE) Gary Bender, Subtropical Horticulture Advisor, Emeritus, San Diego County This is a reposting of a blog from 2015 that is still...

We Have Fire Everywhere' (New York Times Magazine) Jon Mooallem, July 31 Those towns grew into cities; the land around them, suburbs. More than a century of fire suppression left the ecosystems abutting them misshapen and dysfunctional.

Laurel wilt A threat to California's avocado industry Presented by: California Avocado Society, Inc., California Avocado Commission, University of California Cooperative Extension, and University of Florida's Tropical Research and Education Center.

Cover crops in avocados.

Nick Sakovich, Emeritus Farm Advisor Dry Root Rot has menaced growers in Ventura County for many years. In the 50's and 60's it seemed most prevalent on older orange trees. A few years after the wet winter of 1968-69, dry root rot became an increasing problem among citrus trees of all ages.