April-June 2008

Cover: Methods for controlling the light brown apple moth - a pest insect from Australia that was discovered in California last year - include mating disruption, insect growth regulators, and natural parasites and predators. Found in Santa Cruz County, this larva has a white oval on the right side of its head that is a parasitic fly's egg. Photo: Jack Kelly Clark

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California Agriculture, April-June 2008

Volume 62, Number 2
Light brown apple moth: Discovery, data and debate

peer-reviewed research articles

Light brown apple moth's arrival in California worries commodity groups
by Lucia G. Varela , Marshall W. Johnson , Larry Strand , Cheryl A. Wilen , Carolyn Pickel
pp57-61, doi#10.3733/ca.v062n02p57
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Methyl bromide alternatives evaluated for California strawberry nurseries
by Steven A. Fennimore , John M. Duniway , Greg T. Browne , Frank N. Martin , Husein A. Ajwa , Becky B. Westerdahl , Rachael E. Goodhue , Milton Haar , Christopher Winterbottom
pp62-67, doi#10.3733/ca.v062n02p62
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Food safety and environmental quality impose conflicting demands on Central Coast growers
by Melanie Beretti , Diana Stuart
pp68-73, doi#10.3733/ca.v062n02p68
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Transition to conservation tillage evaluated in San Joaquin Valley cotton and tomato rotations
by Jeffrey P. Mitchell , Randal J. Southard , Nicholaus M. Madden , Karen M. Klonsky , Juliet B. Baker , Richard L. DeMoura , William R. Horwath , Daniel S. Munk , Jonathan F. Wroble , Kurt J. Hembree , Wesley W. Wallender
pp74-79, doi#10.3733/ca.v062n02p74
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editorial, news, letters & science briefs

EDITORIAL: UC agriculture programs: Investing in California's future
by Robert C. Dynes
pp50, doi#10.3733/ca.v062n02p50
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About California Agriculture
Editors
pp52, doi#10.3733/ca.v062n02p52
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Letters
From our readers
pp53, doi#10.3733/ca.v062n02p53
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Cooperative conservation could save tricolored blackbirds
by Robin Meadows
pp54, doi#10.3733/ca.v062n02p54
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Plans to control light brown apple moth stir controversy
by Kathy Keatley Garvey
pp55-56, doi#10.3733/ca.v062n02p55
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