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Benefits of Effective Personnel Management….1
Practical Steps to Employee Selection: Designing the Employee Selection Process……………………..3
Science to the Grower: Pipe dreams and postharvest schemes….……6
Disease Focus: Developing a successful disease scouting program……………….....8
Insect Hot Topics: Emerald ash borer on the move………….….…10
Regional Report Santa Cruz/Monterey: Ag economic issues and LBAM update; Field observations.…...12
Regional Report Ventura/Santa Barbara: News and resources related to ag labor….....14
New Publications….…......16
UCNFA Programs for 2013-2014…….....….17

Management of Downy and Powdery Mildews: Three new diseases hit California ………………....….. 1
Science to the Grower:  Are liverworts lost in the    ozone? …………………..…….. 6
Get Cultured: When disease symptoms are caused by poor nutritional and  cultural practices ……….…. 7
Disease Focus: Boxwood blight — a new threat to California ……………………... 9    
Insect Hot Topics: New scale insect in Hawaii ….. 11
Regional Report: Regulatory Updates ….... 13
Regional Report: New anthracnose disease on New Zealand flax …...….. 16
Regional Report: Black foot disease and field observations ..………..….. 18
Regional Report: Citrus greening in California and field observations …….... 21
Campus Research Update: Is western flower thrips a single species? ............... 23
New Publications ……..... 24
UCNFA Programs …..…... 25

Features

• Steaming And Other Management Practices For Pre-Plant Weed Control In Nurseries by Steven A. Fennimore
• Evaluation of Herbicides for Weed Control Efficacy and Crop Safety in Field Production of Nursery Fruit and Nut Trees by Joi Abit and Brad Hanson
• Machine-Guided Cultivation to Control Weeds in Field-Grown Cut Flowers by Richard Smith, Steve Fennimore and Laura Tourte
• Organic Herbicides - Do They Work? by W. Thomas Lanini

Science to the Grower: How much would you pay for a plant out of place?

GET CULTURED: Non-chemical prevention of weeds in containers

DISEASE FOCUS: Weeds as a source of plant virus infections and bacterial leaf spot of poinsettia

Insect Hot Topics: Two New Pests from Florida

UCCE Regional Report Santa Cruz/Monterey Counties: Herbicides for vegetation control on roadsides by Steve Tjosvold

UCCE Regional Report Ventura/Santa Barbara Counties:Managing Invasive Plants in Nurseries by Julie P. Newman

UCCE Regional Report San Diego/Riverside Counties: Thrips resistance management by James A. Bethke
Field Observations Invasive hairy crabweed looks like commodity Hawaii woodnettle

Gleanings from Meetings: 2011 Scouting and Spray Evaluation Workshop by Steve Tjosvold

New ANR Publications compiled by Steve Tjosvold