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Sterilize Your Soil to Control Bugs and Disease

Cathy Isom has some excellent tips about what you can do with soil to beat back garden bugs and disease. That’s coming up on This Land of Ours. Learning how to sterilize soil may be the thing you need to make your garden thrive this year. Soil sterilization helps you kill off the pests and fungi that can wreak …

Ag Pests and Climate Warming
A team of nine researchers led by University of California Davis (UC Davis) entomologist Mia Lippey recently published a paper on climate warming and the effect on agricultural pests. Their work, Field Data Challenge Predictions of Universal Crop Pest Proliferation Under Warming, appeared in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. It contradicts experiments indicating that […]
June Drop Underway in Cold-Hardy Citrus Region
It may not be June, but growers in the cold-hardy citrus region are experiencing June drop, a natural thinning process in which trees lose a lot of their fruit. Growers should not be alarmed about excess pieces of fruit that may be on the ground, says Mary Sutton, University of Georgia (UGA) assistant professor and […]

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