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- Spring 2016: UNCFA Program Representative position changes hands
- Three retirements in nursery and floriculture programs
- Retirements Announced
- Disease Focus
- Powdery and Downy Mildews
- DISEASE FOCUS: The rise of Bot canker diseases
- Disease Focus: Detecting Phytophthora in nursery plants
- DISEASE FOCUS: Scorch diseases caused by Xylella fastidiosa
- DISEASE FOCUS: Fusarium dieback and polyphagous shot hole borer
- DISEASE FOCUS: Effect of fertilizers on plant diseases
- DISEASE FOCUS: Mixed infections cause problems with accurate disease diagnosis
- DISEASE FOCUS: Do you know what might be lurking in your irrigation water?
- DISEASE FOCUS: Developing a successful disease scouting program
- DISEASE FOCUS: Boxwood blight — a new threat to California
- DISEASE FOCUS: Weeds as a source of plant virus infections and bacterial leaf spot of poinsettia
- DISEASE FOCUS: Insect-transmitted plant virus diseases
- DISEASE FOCUS: Botrytis time
- Feature Stories
- Sanitation to Reduce Arthropod Pests
- Keeping Weeds out of Your Operation
- Sanitation for Pathogens: Contaminated Soil is a Primary Source of Pathogens and Must Be Managed
- Solarization: A Simple and Low-cost Method for Disinfesting Horticultural Containers
- Slow Sand Filters Remove Tobacco Mosaic Virus
- The Nuts and Bolts of Scouting
- Scouting for diseases and environmental monitoring
- Scouting improves weed management
- Scouting for snails and slugs
- UC demonstrates benefits of a scouting program for insects and mites
- Managing El Niño Storm Runoff
- Impacts of El Niño in 2016
- Irrigating greenhouse and nursery crops based on soil moisture measurement
- Reap Profits During Drought
- Strategies for Diagnosing Abiotic and Biotic Problems
- History and Status of the Glassy-Winged Sharpshooter in California
- Glassy-winged Sharpshooter Nursery Subcommittee Update
- Maintaining Irrigation Efficiency in Greenhouses and Nurseries
- Leaching to Manage Salinity in Ornamental Crops
- UC Resources Available to Assist California through the Drought
- The Polyphagous Shot Hole Borer: A New Tree Pest in Southern California
- The Threat of Brown Marmorated Stink Bug to Nurseries and Floriculture
- Management of the Bagrada Bug in Nurseries
- What’s Bugging Our Bees?
- Nutrient Release from Controlled-Release Fertilizers in Nursery Production Systems
- Organic Nitrogen Fertilizers for Container Substrates
- Plant Selection for Vegetated Buffers: Plant Size vs Nutrient Uptake Efficiency
- Update of Slow Sand Filtration Research
- Pesticide Use on the Decline in California Cut Flower Production: The Untold Story
- Progress in Managing Weeds, Mollusks and Vertebrates
- Benefits of Effective Personnel Management
- Practical Steps to Employee Selection: Designing the Employee Selection Process
- Management of Downy and Powdery Mildews: Three New Diseases Hit California
- Steaming And Other Management Practices For Pre-Plant Weed Control In Nurseries
- Evaluation of Herbicides for Weed Control Efficacy and Crop Safety in Field Production of Nursery Fruit and Nut Trees
- Machine-Guided Cultivation to Control Weeds in Field-Grown Cut Flowers
- Organic Herbicides - Do They Work?
- European Pepper Moth: A New Invasive Moth Threatens California Agriculture
- Field Evaluation Of Insecticides To Control Light Brown Apple Moth
- Ecological approaches used in nurseries to treat water
- "New" Ag Waivers from two regional water quality control boards
- The use of controlled-release fertilizers (CRF) as part of a Best Management Program (BMP) to improve nutrient uptake efficiency and mitigate nutrient runoff
- Tailoring fertilizer rates for diverse nursery crops
- The Australian ornamental production industry: How things work down under
- Karrie Reid named environmental horticulture advisor in San Joaquin County
- Bedding Plant IPM in California
- IPM Program update
- Foliar Nematodes
- The Farm Business and Market Place
- Controlled Environment Agriculture
- LED Technology for Crop Production in Controlled Environments
- Manipulating Plant Growth Responses with LEDs
- Phytophthora in Restoration and Forest Nurseries
- Phytophthora Crown and Root Rot Symptoms and Detection
- Can Fresh Wood Chip Amendments Suppress Root Pathogens?
- Neonicotinoids: An Objective Assessment
- Piercing-Sucking Insects and Systemic Insecticides
- Update on Biological Control and the Challenges Growers Face
- Get Cultured
- Sanitation and Treatment for Pathogens in Recycled Water
- GET CULTURED: Fertilizer and media management during El Niño
- GET CULTURED: Horticultural practices to conserve water and mitigate salt precipitation in container production
- GET CULTURED: Reclaimed water use in nursery production
- GET CULTURED: Managing media to optimize water use
- GET CULTURED: Silicon in plant nutrition
- GET CULTURED: When disease symptoms are caused by poor nutritional or cultural practices
- GET CULTURED: Non-chemical prevention of weeds in containers
- GET CULTURED: Drainage channels and vegetated filter strips in nurseries Part II
- GET CULTURED: Drainage channels and vegetated filter strips in nurseries Part I
- GET CULTURED: Fertilizer Management When using Secondary Water Sources
- GET CULTURED: Nitrogen and water use of winter- and summer-growing succulents
- Get Cultured: Monitoring electrical conductivity of irrigation water and rooting media
- Gleanings from Meetings
- CDFA nursery advisory board report Spring 2016
- CDFA nursery advisory board report Fall 2016
- Fall 2016 California Nursery Conference
- 2011 Scouting and Spray Evaluation Workshop
- ABCs of Fertilizer and Irrigation Management
- Is Nursery Insurance Practical to Manage Risk in Your Business?
- CDFA nursery advisory board report Winter 2015
- CDFA Nursery Advisory Board Report Summer 2017
- CDFA Nursery Advisory Report Winter 2018
- INSECT HOT TOPICS
- Coconut Rhinoceros Beetle
- Insect hot topics: Chinese Rose Beetle
- INSECT HOT TOPICS: Lobate lac scale
- INSECT HOT TOPICS: Daylily leafminers
- INSECT HOT TOPICS: Euonymus caterpillars
- INSECT HOT TOPICS: Japanese beetles
- INSECT HOT TOPICS: Emerald ash borer update and rose rosette
- INSECT HOT TOPICS: Brown marmorated stink bug
- INSECT HOT TOPICS: Ligurian Leafhopper
- INSECT HOT TOPICS: Emerald ash borer on the move
- INSECT HOT TOPICS: New scale insect in Hawaii
- Insect Hot Topics: Two New Pests from Florida
- INSECT HOT TOPICS: Spotted lanternfly
- INSECT HOT TOPICS: Sweet potato and rough sweet potato weevils
- New Publications
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- Winter 2015 New Publications
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- Fall 2014 New Publications
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- Fall 2013 New Publications
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- Spring 2013 New Publications
- Fall 2012 New Publications
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- Fall 2011 New Publications
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- Winter 2011 New Publications
- Spring 2010 New Publications
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- Regional Report Orange and Los Angeles Counties
- Regional Report San Benito and Santa Clara Counties
- Regional Report San Diego and Riverside Counties
- Summer 2016: Chilli thrips
- San Diego/Riverside: Salts at work again
- Spring 2015: Three unusual diagnoses
- Spring 2015 Field Observations: Ficus eye-spot midge
- Fall 2014: Light Brown Apple Moth Update
- Fall 2014 Field Observations: The Neonicotinoids
- Summer 2014: First detection of Colletotrichum cymbidiicola in California and Water Supply Update
- Spring 2014: Steam treatment of sago palms infested with scale
- Spring 2014 Field Observations: The Coqui frog
- Fall 2013: Do insects proliferate in response to better plant nutrition?
- Fall 2013 Field Observations: Recent insects from Florida
- Summer 2013: European pepper moth update
- Summer 2013: Dave Shaw Retirement News
- Spring 2013: Hot Water Treatments to Control Pests
- Summer 2013 Field Observations
- Summer 2012: Citrus greening in California
- Summer 2012 Field Observations
- Spring 2012: Thrips resistance management
- Spring 2012 Field Observations
- Fall 2011: Getting Serious About Palm Weevils
- Fall 2011 Field Observations
- Spring 2011: Time to get serious about water in San Diego County
- Spring 2011 Field Observations
- Winter 2011: Regional Report: Biology and Control of the Myoporum Thrips
- Winter 2011 Field Observations
- Spring 2010: Integrated pest management of the aloe mite
- Spring 2010 Field Observations
- Spring 2016: Agave pests
- Regional Report Santa Cruz and Monterey Counties
- Fall 2016 Field Observations: Foamy bark canker and sudden death
- Winter 2015: Potential impact of El Niño on Phytophthora diseases
- Fall 2015: A simple approach to knowing when to irrigate ornamental potted crops
- Spring 2015: Ramorum blight and how to keep it out of your nursery
- Spring 2015: Pathogen field test kits
- Fall 2014: Effect of Insecticides on Light Brown Apple Moth Larvae of Different Ages
- Fall 2014 Field Observations: Phytophthora tentaculata
- Summer 2014: Retrospective on improving irrigation management
- Spring 2014: Light brown apple moth update on regulations and research
- Spring 2014 Field Observations: Polyphagous shot hole borer detected in Santa Cruz County
- Fall 2013: News related to Central Coast water quality
- Fall 2013 Field Observations: Diagnosis of a poinsettia problem
- Summer 2013: Improving water quality with polyacrylamide (PAM) polymers
- Spring 2013: LBAM field data available for Monterey Bay Area growers
- Fall 2012: Ag economic issues and LBAM update
- Fall 2012 Field Observations: Fusarium Wilt
- Summer 2012: New anthracnose disease on New Zealand flax
- Spring 2012: Herbicides for vegetation control on roadsides
- Fall 2011: Environmental conditions could be monitored in the nursery to limit the spread of sudden oak death
- Spring 2011: Light brown apple moth management in nursery stock: Mating disruption control strategy proven useful but incomplete
- Spring 2011 Field Observations
- Winter 2011: European grapevine moth: a new major pest on grapes, now in Central California, with potential impact on the ornamental nursery industry
- Spring 2010: Light brown apple moth: Now what happens to IPM?
- Spring 2010 Field Observations
- Spring 2016: Evidence of pyrethroid insecticides and sediment in surface water in Lower Salinas River Watershed
- Summer 2017 Field observations: Boxwood blight found in Bay Area residential landscapes
- Look out for new diseases and pests in the Monterey Bay Area
- Regional Report Ventura and Santa Barbara Counties
- Winter 2015: Wind and rain, the grower’s bain
- Spring 2015: Bot fungi wreak havoc during drought
- Fall 2014: Cool weather diseases of nursery crops
- Summer 2014: Drought exacerbates root rots
- Spring 2014: Polyphagous shot hole borer look-alikes
- Fall 2013: A comparison of organic fertilizers
- Summer 2013: Water quality management plans
- Summer 2013: Retirement News
- Spring 2013: Management of the Bagrada bug in nurseries
- Fall 2012: News and Resources Related to Ag Labor
- Summer 2012: Black foot disease
- Summer 2012 Field Observations
- Spring 2012: Managing Invasive Plants in Nurseries
- Fall 2011: Mitigating Pesticide Runoff While Managing Invasive Pests
- Spring 2011: How Aussie growers are addressing water issues, Part II
- Spring 2011 Field Observations
- Spring 2011: Risk management workshop held in Carpinteria
- Winter 2011: How Aussie nursery growers are addressing the water issue
- Summer 2014: Drought exacerbates root rots
- Science to the Grower
- SCIENCE TO THE GROWER: Sync and Swim Pythium and Phytophthora don’t mind asking for directions
- Science to the Grower: Are plants intelligent enough to earn a scouting merit badge?
- SCIENCE TO THE GROWER: Who is lighting whom?
- SCIENCE TO THE GROWER: Do Plants Need Water? Science Has the Answers!
- SCIENCE TO THE GROWER: No matter how you spell edema, it’s an excrescent intumescence on the plant leaf
- SCIENCE TO THE GROWER: A Nobel idea for plant lighting
- SCIENCE TO THE GROWER: Hydrogels do not decrease water use in container plant production
- SCIENCE TO THE GROWER: Is sustainable ornamental crop production sustainable?
- SCIENCE TO THE GROWER: How to handle salt in a recirculating irrigation system
- SCIENCE TO THE GROWER: One thrips, two thrips, fed thrips, dead thrips
- SCIENCE TO THE GROWER: Pipe dreams and postharvest schemes
- Science to the Grower: Are liverworts lost in the ozone?
- Science to the Grower: How much would you pay for a plant out of place?
- Science to the Grower: Give your potting mix the gentle and clean smell of freshly laundered linens while it repels insect pests
- Science to the Grower: Mr. Sandman, bring me a dream: Is there a place for silicon in an ornamental IPM program?
- Science to the Grower: The cold, hard facts about plant factories with artificial light
- SCIENCE TO THE GROWER: How do you put a bee in the plant-buyer's bonnet?
- SCIENCE TO THE GROWER: Clearing the air
- New Publication from Agriculture and Natural Resources
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