Strawberries and Caneberries

This year's UCCE Annual Strawberry Production Research meeting will take place on February 5 and will be held at the Salinas Sports Complex (also known as the Rodeo Grounds) on Main Street.

I don't intend for this blog to become sort of a Facebook type venue with pictures of me diving into pools full of cash, hoisting up big fish dockside or hobnobbing with rich and powerful people, but I will take exception with this intention to share a photo of the wonderful Matsutake mushrooms I wa...

Happy New Year everyone. Let's see that we have a good season coming up here. Just rolling through old Powerpoint presentations looking for some information on herbicides for a local grower put me on to this presentation I made on leafroller control in 2008.

An article from the Wall Street Journal this past week underlines how much fresh produce sales are rising in the US and what value these present to the nation's groceries. Up 2 billion dollars from last year, produce sales for 2019 are looking to be a total of $62 billion.

One thing that has many times struck me about farm calls in raspberry, often in tunnels, is the appearance of yellowing starkly on one hand of the leaf in association with stress. Usually the stress comes from the tunnel being too hot, though sometimes the stress is originating from salt.