Protecting Citrus Genes in case of HLB Wipeout
BY LAURIE GREENE, ASSOCIATE EDITOR
BY LAURIE GREENE, ASSOCIATE EDITOR
for the Sacramento River hydrologic region, where most of the state’s rain occurs.
– the source of much of our water supply. The eight stations are:
Blue Canyon, Brush Creek Ranger Station, Mineral, Mount Shasta City, Pacific House, Quincy Ranger Station, Shasta Dam, and Sierraville Ranger Station.
this index, including snowpack and prior streamflow. And yes, the
seasonal forecasts are a more accurate measure of water supply, but great consideration must be made to the nearly one million acre-feet released to the ocean last winter for “flood control” instead of to storage. This is due to the biological opinion that restricts turning on the pumps that move the water to storage.
Joel Siegel is USDA ARS Research
Entomologist based in Parlier
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In terms of heat units, from the NOW point of view, we are about 17 days ahead of last year,” Siegel noted. “But harvest is going to be much earlier this year than last year. “If we were going to have a late harvest with all these moths out there, there would be greater damage due to crop exposure,” he said.
Adult Navel Orangeworm |
Improving Surface and Ground Water Problems
By Patrick Cavanaugh, Editor
Parry Klassen |
And expanded story on the ESJWQC will appear in the September 2013 issue of Pacific Nut Producer magazine.