UC Cooperative Extension Advisor, Julie Newman works to reduce potentially damaging environmental impacts while improving the profits of nursery and greenhouse producers. Luckily, these two goals often go hand in hand.
Greenhouse and nursery crops are big business in Ventura County and Julie’s work helps to provide the science-based research required to further strengthen this industry.
Local ongoing field research includes the development of pest management programs which reduce the use of pesticides and incorporate environmentally-friendly pest management strategies, and the development of crop management systems for growers which utilize less water while protecting the quality of our water for drinking and other beneficial purposes.
UC's Nursery and Floriculture Alliance (UCNFA) joins UC researchers throughout the state, providing a great way for information to be shared. Julie Newman and other UC scientists work together to produce the UCNFA newsletter. The new edition has recently been added to our website and includes the following topics:
- Ecological approaches used in nurseries to treat water
- Drainage channels and vegetated filter strips in nurseries
- Give your potting mix the gentle and clean smell of freshly laundered linens while it repels insects
- Two new pests and soil fumigant label changes
- Light brown apple moth management in nursery stock: Mating disruption control strategy proven useful but incomplete
- How Aussie growers are addressing water issues
- And more!
For those of us who are not growers, the newsletter provides a unique look into the industry that produces these products for us.
- commercial agriculture
- greenhouse production
- Initiative A Clean Water
- Initiative B Abundant Food
- Initiative C Sharing Science
- Initiative D Sustaining Ecosystems
- Initiative H Managing Pests
- Initiative I Energy for the Future
- invasive pests
- IPM
- irrigation
- Julie Newman
- local research
- nursery production
- pesticides
- pests
- water quality