http://ucanr.edu/blogs/strawberries_caneberries/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS%2BFeed Blog will discuss current issues and topics of general interest in strawberries and caneberries en-us UC ANR http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/rss/ Sat, 18 May 2013 16:50:28 PST Sat, 18 May 2013 16:50:28 PST UC ANR
]]> Sat, 18 May 2013 16:14:28 PST http://ucanr.edu/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=10418&utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS%2BFeed mpbolda@ucanr.edu(Mark Bolda) http://ucanr.edu/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=10418 Slime molds, classified in the group called Myxomycetes, are primitive fungi that feed on dead or decaying organic matter and have elaborate life cycles. The mature fruiting bodies of slime molds are quite diverse and can appear as sheets, mounds, crusts, blobs, and even eggs or structures of insects (Photo 1). Occasionally, slime molds can be found growing incidentally around or on crops. The pictures below are of the slime mold Fuligo septica that is emerging from the bark mulch of a local...
]]> Sat, 04 May 2013 15:10:57 PST http://ucanr.edu/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=10322&utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS%2BFeed mpbolda@ucanr.edu(Mark Bolda) http://ucanr.edu/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=10322
]]> Wed, 01 May 2013 15:03:56 PST http://ucanr.edu/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=10300&utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS%2BFeed mpbolda@ucanr.edu(Mark Bolda) http://ucanr.edu/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=10300
]]> Thu, 25 Apr 2013 11:15:39 PST http://ucanr.edu/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=10243&utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS%2BFeed mpbolda@ucanr.edu(Mark Bolda) http://ucanr.edu/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=10243
]]> Thu, 18 Apr 2013 14:50:26 PST http://ucanr.edu/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=9782&utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS%2BFeed mpbolda@ucanr.edu(Mark Bolda) http://ucanr.edu/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=9782
]]> Thu, 04 Apr 2013 15:42:18 PST http://ucanr.edu/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=9692&utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS%2BFeed mpbolda@ucanr.edu(Mark Bolda) http://ucanr.edu/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=9692
]]> Thu, 04 Apr 2013 15:26:16 PST http://ucanr.edu/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=9688&utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS%2BFeed mpbolda@ucanr.edu(Mark Bolda) http://ucanr.edu/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=9688 A recent case of wilting blackberries around Watsonville has been confirmed from multiple samples submitted to several plant pathologists (the UCCE plant pathology diagnostic lab in Salinas obviously being one of them) to be caused by Verticillium dahliae. The pattern is one of wilted plants scattered over the breadth of the field, with very few groups of more than three dead or dying plants. Verticillium on blackberry is actually pretty rare to find; in my career of more than 10 years I have...
]]> Thu, 28 Mar 2013 13:55:29 PST http://ucanr.edu/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=9637&utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS%2BFeed mpbolda@ucanr.edu(Mark Bolda) http://ucanr.edu/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=9637 So what does cheap natural gas do for California berry growers? Not a lot apparently, if one extrapolates from an excellent article written by Colin Carter and Kevin Novan and recently released by the Giannini Foundation of Agricultural Economics titled “Shale Gas Boom: Implications for California Agriculture.” http://giannini.ucop.edu/media/are-update/files/articles/V16N3_1_1.pdf As most Americans know by now, the ability to access through hydraulic fracturing (known in the...
]]> Sun, 17 Mar 2013 06:45:50 PST http://ucanr.edu/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=9536&utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS%2BFeed mpbolda@ucanr.edu(Mark Bolda) http://ucanr.edu/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=9536 UCCE is sponsoring a meeting on lygus in strawberries to be held April 18. Four Ph.D. level entomologists (and one fruit guy) will bring together a veritable brain trust in one room to share decades of experience and knowledge in entomology and lygus bugs. Biology, sampling, cultural, chemical and biological control of lygus will all be discussed. This is without a doubt a can't miss event for growers, PCA's and anyone else interested in the latest and most in-depth information available on...
]]> Thu, 14 Mar 2013 14:20:20 PST http://ucanr.edu/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=9524&utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS%2BFeed mpbolda@ucanr.edu(Mark Bolda) http://ucanr.edu/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=9524
]]> Wed, 13 Mar 2013 15:10:33 PST http://ucanr.edu/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=9512&utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS%2BFeed mpbolda@ucanr.edu(Mark Bolda) http://ucanr.edu/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=9512 Introduction: This blog post is about the very common fungal pathogen of strawberry, powdery mildew. What follows is a review on the biology and management of this disease. Causal Organism: Powdery mildew is caused by the pathogen that historically has been named Sphaerotheca macularis f. sp. fragariae. However, future scientific publications and other writings will likely use the new name Podosphaera aphanis. Like most powdery mildew pathogens on other hosts, the majority of the...
]]> Fri, 08 Mar 2013 08:23:18 PST http://ucanr.edu/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=9408&utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS%2BFeed mpbolda@ucanr.edu(Mark Bolda) http://ucanr.edu/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=9408 Introduction: As noted previously in this blog, lygus bugs are a major pest in strawberries since they cause mis-shaping of fruit from their feeding on the early forming fruit. This pest has been a real challenge to California strawberry growers, one reason being that the populations in the Central Coast production regions have become quite tolerant or even resistant to many of the pesticides used for it. Fortunately several promising insecticide chemistries for control of lygus bugs have...
]]> Thu, 28 Feb 2013 07:29:56 PST http://ucanr.edu/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=9379&utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS%2BFeed mpbolda@ucanr.edu(Mark Bolda) http://ucanr.edu/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=9379 Strawberry and caneberry growers should be reminded that the CDFA-USDA regulatory program for light brown apple moth is still regnant in Santa Cruz and north Monterey counties this year and we should all be taking steps to reduce numbers of this pest in the production fields. I communicated with Rick McKay, head of the USDA-APHIS regulatory effort for this area, and he assured me the program will be active again in 2013 in the same way it was active last year, at least until September 30....
]]> Fri, 15 Feb 2013 16:49:31 PST http://ucanr.edu/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=9327&utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS%2BFeed mpbolda@ucanr.edu(Mark Bolda) http://ucanr.edu/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=9327
]]> Fri, 08 Feb 2013 15:58:43 PST http://ucanr.edu/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=9258&utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS%2BFeed mpbolda@ucanr.edu(Mark Bolda) http://ucanr.edu/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=9258 The cold weather we have been experiencing over the past few days has prompted a lot of talk and even articles in the popular press over what the effect of this cold would be to local berry growers. Beyond the damage that very cold temperatures could cause tender plant parts such as flowers and emerging vegetative parts (of which we fortunately don’t have very many right now), the question worth exploring is what benefit this weather could be bringing to our berry crops. Many of our...
]]> Sun, 13 Jan 2013 09:02:54 PST http://ucanr.edu/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=9058&utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS%2BFeed mpbolda@ucanr.edu(Mark Bolda) http://ucanr.edu/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=9058
]]> Mon, 07 Jan 2013 09:03:39 PST http://ucanr.edu/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=9009&utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS%2BFeed mpbolda@ucanr.edu(Mark Bolda) http://ucanr.edu/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=9009 There is a caneberry meeting sponsored by UC Cooperative Extension planned for January 11 of the new year. Featured will be talks about cost and returns of growing primocane raspberries under tunnels by UCCE Farm Management Advisor Laura Tourte, general talks on yield enhancement work and pest management by yours truly, further insight on spotted wing drosophila by UC Davis' Kelly Hamby, irrigation managment by UCCE water guru Michael Cahn, primocane blackberry management by UCCE Farm Advisor...
]]> Fri, 21 Dec 2012 13:56:06 PST http://ucanr.edu/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=8957&utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS%2BFeed mpbolda@ucanr.edu(Mark Bolda) http://ucanr.edu/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=8957
]]> Mon, 17 Dec 2012 09:39:09 PST http://ucanr.edu/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=8912&utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS%2BFeed mpbolda@ucanr.edu(Mark Bolda) http://ucanr.edu/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=8912
]]> Mon, 10 Dec 2012 09:17:17 PST http://ucanr.edu/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=8865&utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS%2BFeed mpbolda@ucanr.edu(Mark Bolda) http://ucanr.edu/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=8865