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UC Davis Chile Life Sciences Innovation Center
¡La plataforma de extensión para productores y consultores Chilenos está disponible!
The extension platform for Chilean growers and advisors is now available!
Almond Cover Crops
The Cover Crop Best Management Practices guide is now available!
Our partners in the Gaudin Laboratory are exploring the benefits of using cover crops in almond orchards. Learn more here.
From Carolina Tweedy, UC Davis Plant Sciences
From Luke Milliron, UC Cooperative Extension
Nut and Tree Fruit Education Program
Introducing the Online Nut and Tree Fruit Education Program to train California Specialty Crops Growers. These courses are exclusively designed for new fruit and nut tree farmers or current farmers that are transitioning their land to fruit and nut trees.
¡Ya están disponibles las versiones en español de nuestros populares cursos en línea!
***Our online course Advances in Walnut Production is temporarily unavailable due to technical difficulties. We apologize for the inconvenience.***
Online Research Databases
Repositories of Annual Research Reports for the following California crops: Almonds, Walnuts, Prunes, Pistachio, Stone Fruit.
Fruit & Nut Information
Sections on management and biology for individual crops, articles & websites by UC experts in crop production.
Fruit & Nut Information
2022 Extension Course
2022 Principles of Fruit & Nut Tree
Growth, Cropping & Management
March 7 - March 11, 2022
Zoom
The 2021 Principles of Fruit & Nut Tree Growth, Cropping & Management will be held remotely. A Zoom link will be provided to registrants.
Understanding the fundamentals of tree biology is essential to making sound orchard management and business decisions in the tree fruit and nut industry. However, access to educational courses on basic fruit and nut tree biology, and how it relates to agronomic practices, is limited. Our course incorporates lectures and field demonstrations to provide information on all aspects of basic plant biology and the relationship between plant biology and nuts and fruit orchard management.
Our course includes five days of instruction. Each day will have 4 hours of synchronous instruction, with supplemental asynchronous video instruction, and question and answer sessions with our instructors.
Tree Biology & Orchard Management
New content: Flower Anatomy & Pollination, Tree Growth. Links to: Current UC Research, Spray Technology.
Tree Biology & Orchard Management
Question for an Expert?
Contact your UCCE Pomology Farm Advisor.
Backyard growers, contact your UCCE Master Gardener.
Introducing the newly released USDA-ARS almond variety 'Yorizane'! Check out the FactSheet here. Check back next month for another almond variety highlight!
Upcoming Events
Did you miss the UCCE/UC Davis Plant Sciences Virtual Field Day?
View the Cover Crops in Orchards recording here.
VIII International Symposium on Almonds and Pistachios
Weather-Related Models
Chill accumulation models; irrigation scheduling; prediction models for stonefruit harvest, almond & pistachio N, almond hullsplit.
Weather-Related Models
The "Growing the Valley" Podcast with Phoebe Gordon and Luke Milliron updates once a week with interviews and updates for stone fruit and nut growers in the central valley.
Employment Opportunities
Pistachio Researcher Initial Notice May 2021
AUSTRALIAN PISTACHIO GROWERS’ ASSOCIATION INC
Is hiring a:
Pistachio Researcher
- SUNRAYSIA HEARTLAND
- UNIQUE HORTICULTURAL ROLE
- REMUNERATION (including a car) TO BE NEGOTIATED
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