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Orchard Management Monthly Newsletter
Avoid Stress to Protect Spur Health
Maintaining a healthy spur population in an almond orchard will require careful irrigation timing and good tree health…
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UC Almond Variety Trials Reveal Clear Result
UC researchers plan to plant a new set of regional variety trials for almonds, adding to the growing…
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Help on the Way for Nut Export Supply Chain Issues
Ocean carriers, eager to exploit U.S. demand for imports over the last couple years, rushed empty containers back…
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Squirrel Control Requires Multiple Strategies
Understanding the biology and ecology of vertebrate pests will guide management decisions. In a UC IPM webinar, Dr.…
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LFB Pheromone Efforts Show Promise
A multi-year effort to identify and isolate compounds to make up the leaffooted bug pheromone in order to…
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Step-By-Step Diagnosis of Tree Disorders
It takes critical evaluation of the tree and the environment to correctly diagnose disorders in an orchard. In…
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Rootstocks Evaluated for Nematode Susceptibility
The reputation of pistachio trees being resistant to plant-parasitic nematodes stems from times when different rootstocks were used.…
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Walnut Scale Can Lead to Higher BOT Infection Rates
Walnut scale and Botryosphaeria (BOT) are not new issues in walnut production and separately can affect tree health.…
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Temperatures May Affect Hull Split Timing
Fluctuating temperatures this spring may serve as a warning to almond growers and PCAs that timing hull split…
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Irrigation
Five Things You Want Your Irrigation Manager to Know (Even If That’s You)
No one in charge of irrigating tree nut orchards for growth and productivity assumes it is a simple…
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2022 Almond Acreage and Crop Reports Released
California’s almond acreage continues to grow, but at a gradually slowing rate, according to two new reports released…
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Drones for Bird Control in Pistachios
Pistachio growers, focused on preventing crop losses due to crows and ravens, have employed various noisemaking and scaring…
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