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Up, Up and Away: Vines for Bees

March 8, 2021
Gardeners are always looking for ways to add more plants, especially in a small garden. One way to do this (and in hot California add some much-needed shaded seating) is with a pergola.
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Whitney Brim-DeForest
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Brim-DeForest receives outstanding paper award

March 4, 2021
By Pamela S Kan-Rice
The Weed Science Society of America honored Whitney Brim-DeForest, UCCE rice and wild rice advisor for Sutter, Yuba, Placer and Sacramento counties, with its award for Outstanding Paper: Weed Science. The award-winning paper, Phenotypic Diversity of Weedy Rice (Oryza sativa f.
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Virtual Field Day March 24th

March 1, 2021
By Sarah E Light
The University of California Cooperative Extension and theColusa County Resource Conservation District are co-hosting a Virtual Field Day on March 24th from 10:00am-12:00pm.
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A winter monarch caterpillar munching on the remnants of milkweed on Jan. 23 in Vacaville, Calif. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
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Perseverance Prevailed

March 1, 2021
Perseverance prevailed. The third instar monarch caterpillar we found munching on the remnants of our cut-back milkweed on Jan. 23 in Vacaville, Calif., is now an adult butterfly fluttering around the neighborhood.
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Figure 1. Predominant weeds in the trial were watergrass and barnyardgrass.
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Herbicide Trial in Delta Drill-Seeded Rice - 2020

February 28, 2021
By Michelle M Leinfelder-Miles
From the San Joaquin Valley Delta Field Crops blog Jan. 21, 2021 Michelle Leinfelder-Miles is the UC Cooperative Extension Delta Crops Resource Management Advisor serving San Joaquin, Sacramento, Yolo, Solano, and Contra Costa counties.
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Moneim Mohamed
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Names in the News

February 26, 2021
By Pamela S Kan-Rice
Mohamed joins Kearney to research alfalfa irrigation Abdelmoneim Moneim Mohamed joined UC ANR as project scientist alfalfa irrigation management Feb. 1.
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