…topics ranging from soil health, seeds, plant breeding, and biological control, to biodiversity, economics, and livestock — all with a focus on organic production. Dahlberg “We are making these presentations…
Man’s New Best Friend
…team from QMUL’s School of Biological and Chemical Sciences training goats to remove a lid from a box to receive a reward. In the final test, they make the reward…
Agri View: Fire Ant Problem
…P. obtusus and P. cultellatus, both of which have become established in limited areas. Phorid flies will not be a stand-alone biological control agent for IFA but will be an…
Smelt Plan Calls for More Water Release
…flows must be consistent with the 2009 salmon biological opinion as determined by NMFS and CDFW. To read the full plan, click here. Cont. from the Department of Natural…
Considerations for Codling Moth Treatment
…other factors before making a codling moth treatment. Making an application for the pest could have implications down the road on navel orangeworm management and some biological controls. “With codling…
CA Water Agencies File Suit Against Reclamation
…reassess its ESA-related actions. The existing measures, adopted in 2008 and 2009, are based on biological opinions issued under the Endangered Species Act. The measures are responsible for the largest…
Proposals Could Further Limit Water Flows
…the Sacramento river. It goes beyond what the salmon biological opinion currently allows and it’s confounding on what they think they’re going to achieve.” Wade says this idea would go…
Food Safe Technology
…formation. Use this information to develop and evaluate biological-based intervention strategies for pathogen reduction while maintaining product quality. 3. Develop and evaluate process models, including economic analysis models, in order…
Drought Alert: Call to Re-examine ‘Harmful Actions’
…is required to recover the species, the FWS is placing additional stress on a broken water delivery system. This request is outside of the requirements of the 2008 Biological Opinion,…
Protecting California Citrus With Natural Enemies
…classical biological control program to reduce ACPs in the state’s urban areas. They have imported from Punjab, Pakistan two natural enemies of ACP, which attack different developmental stages of immature…
Bat Population Decline
…flying mammals around. That story is ahead on “This Land of Ours.” Bat Population Decline From: National Speleological Society White Nose Syndrome A Project of the Biological Response Committee Spring…
Bats and Agriculture
Cathy Isom tells us how bats play a significant role in agriculture. That story is ahead on “This Land of Ours.” Bats and Agriculture From: Center for Biological Diversity The…
Agri View: Ornamental Fish
…Live rock serves as the principal biological and chemical filter in many marine-type tanks, and the encrusted organisms usually provide much of the background coloration in the tank. The vast…
Farmers Check Impact of Spring Storms
…Niederholzer said, which slows the biological activity of the flowers. In many orchards, stormy weather also prevented honeybees from flying. Although prunes self-pollinate, Neill Mitchell said, the bees help increase…