Opening night at the annual California Association of Pest Control Advisers Conference and Agri-Expo featured a packed house for label updates and exhibitor demonstrations at Disneyland Resort convention center in Anaheim, Calif. More than 1,200 are registered for the annual conference of Pest Control Advisers and other agricultural professionals.
Current mid 70-cent prices, nearly a buck a pound last year, and record-setting prices two years ago translate into a continued red-knuckle, stomach-churning roller coaster ride for the cotton industry.
Despite a grower’s best efforts, blueberry plantings can display moderate to severe leaf chlorosis, which often inhibits optimum production. Such plants usually suffer from stunting or lack of vigor. Production of fruit-wood is limited. Even flowering can be reduced.
Castor beans are back in California, at least as the latest research crop that University of California, Davis Cooperative Extension biofuels guru Steve Kaffka is looking at as a possible source crop for making biofuels. Castor's main toxic protein, ricin, is so potent that a single milligram is sufficient to kill an adult.
Tests under way by UA weed specialist Bill McCloskey, Tucson, will prove whether Arizona pigweed is resistant to glyphosate, and if so whether the resistance level is moderate or high.
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