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UC Ag Scholarships
Students, faculty and colleagues are encouraged to take advantage of these opportunities.
Pamela Kan-Rice, Assistant director, news and information outreach, UCANR
Three scholarships are being offered for students studying agriculture.UCANR
Applications and nominations of outstanding students pursuing careers in agriculture will be accepted through May 13, 2024, for UC Agriculture and Natural Resources scholarships and awards.
Students, faculty and colleagues are encouraged to take advantage of these opportunities to honor academic excellence and provide additional support for undergraduate and graduate students.
Bill and Jane Fischer Vegetation Management Scholarship is for students enrolled at ANY accredited California university, with preference given to graduate students. The recipient of the $1,000 (multiple awards possible) will be selected from students who are enrolled in fall 2024 pursuing degrees in vegetation management, weed science or agriculture specializations plant science, soils and plant nutrition, agricultural engineering, agricultural botany, plant pathology, plant protection and pest management, or agricultural economics. Students apply directly.
Howard Walton Clark Prize in Plant Breeding and Soil Building is for students enrolled at UC Berkeley, UC Davis or UC Riverside. The $5,000 (multiple awards possible) will be awarded to a promising student who will be enrolled as a senior in fall 2024 in the College of Agriculture and/or Natural Resources with demonstrated scholastic achievement and talent for independent research with reference to either plant breeding (leading to new/improved crops and new/improved varieties using appropriate tools) or soil building (leading to improving soil quality related to soil productivity and sustainability as a resource). Nomination by faculty member required.
Knowles A. Ryerson Award in Agriculture is for students enrolled at UC Berkeley and UC Davis. $2,500 (minimum one award for each campus) given to an international undergraduate student who will be enrolled in fall 2024 in the College of Agriculture and/or Natural Resources, in any curriculum, preferably after completion of the junior year. The award is based on high scholarship, outstanding character and promise of leadership. Nomination by faculty member required.
More information about the application process can be found on at https://ucanr.edu/anrscholarships.
For questions, contact Andrea Ambrose, UC ANR director of advancement, at apambrose@ucanr.edu.
Source: University of California Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources
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Using Fire as a Management Tool, Prescribed Grazing Too
Avocado Guide from Down Under
The 2nd edition of the Avocado Problem Solver Field Guide is OUT NOW! It contains 14 new disorders (including six spotted mite, panicle dieback and tree lodging), it updates and expands the information provided in the original edition, includes three new beneficial insects and three new exotic pests, and includes 70 additional photographs as well as replacing many of the original ones. It is 30 pages longer than the 1st edition.
The new edition illustrates, describes, and provides management advice for 114 different pests, diseases, and other disorders of avocado in Australia, many of which are common to avocado industries in other countries. The first part of the book is expressly designed to help the user quickly identify the problem, this is achieved using 520 colour photographs which are arranged in order of plant part and grouped logically according to symptom. The caption of each photograph refers the reader to a page in the second part of the book which provides information covering the cause, general comments, description, prevention, and management of the problem.
All the pests are not found in California - yet- nor are all the diseases, but this is a beautifully illustrated and documented guide that can help CA avocado growers.
Calculating Irrigation with CIMIS
Avocado Irrigation Calculator using CIMIS
(California Irrigation Management Information System)
Updated March 13, 2024
Gary S. Bender
Farm Advisor Emeritus – Subtropical Horticulture
UC Cooperative Extension – San Diego County
The irrigation requirement can be calculated each week by using CIMIS (California Irrigation Management Information System). CIMIS is a network of weather stations throughout California that takes daily information on evapotranspiration (ETo) of eight-inch tall grass and sends this ETo to a computer in Sacramento. ETo is basically the amount of water lost each day from this grass; it is calculated in inches of water. You can download this information when you want to irrigate your avocados and put it into an “irrigation calculator”. This information will be multiplied by the crop coefficient developed for avocados by UC Cooperative Extension farm advisors and specialists . This will give you the amount of water lost each day by avocados through transpiration and evaporation from the soil surface. Then, assuming the weather doesn't change, you can replace that amount of water when you irrigate.
Follow the Attached Files "CMIS exercise" link below to see how it's done.
CMIS exercise
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Avocado Seminar - April 11
Please join us at one of our California Avocado
Growers Seminar Series.
Presented by
California Avocado Society, Inc., California Avocado Commission, and University of California Cooperative Extension
Check our previous recordings on YouTube
California Avocado Growers Seminars Series 2024
Scheduled Topics
April 11 (1 - 3 PM)
Fertilizers
Topics and Speakers
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