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Former Tulare County ag commissioner looks back on job
Visalia Times-Delta 2010-02-04"It's fair to say the fight with the glassy-winged sharpshooter has really defined my eight years as director," he said. Kunkel is an Exeter High School ... and more ...
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UF's EPI poised to fight tomorrow's diseases
Gainesville Sun 2010-01-26Plant diseases include citrus canker, blight and greening, sudden oak death, soybean rust, Pierce's disease of grapes. • Animal diseases that can affect ... and more ...
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Viticulture briefs
Santa Rosa Press Democrat 2010-01-24From grapevine flowering to Pierce's disease and gopher control, the UC Cooperative Extension Sonoma County event will touch on numerous topics critical to ...
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Water supply update – Wednesday
Highland Radio 2010-01-20There is also leakage in the Aughnagaddy GWSS and suspected leakage in the Glenmaquin GWSS . Ongoing interruptions to supply in these areas can be expected ...
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Interest in grapes on the rise
Victoria Advocate 2010-01-05Additional presentations will address grape pest management, irrigation management and an update on Pierce's disease research. A minimum of three continuing ...
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Cold Benefits Local Wine Growers
WXII12.com 2010-01-05Cold Benefits Local Wine Growers WXII12.com ... parts of the grasshopper, and it can hop from plants to the vine and spread disease that's prevalent in North Carolina that's called Pierce's disease ...
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Texas wine-grape growers will cluster for Feb. 12 Gulf Coast field day
Media Newswire 2010-01-04(press release) Additional presentations will address grape pest management, irrigation management and an update on Pierce's disease research. The program's keynote speaker ...
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Events that shaped our county, our lives
Bakersfield Californian 2010-01-02The glassy-winged sharpshooter infested grapevines, Kern's No. 1 crop in 2000. The pests spread Pierce's disease, which choked the plants of nutrients. ... and more ...
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Decade left its mark on county
Visalia Times-Delta 2010-01-01... Commissioner's Office announced it would spend $700000 during the next two years on a detection program to combat the glassy-winged sharpshooter . ... and more ...
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New Year's forecasts and resolutions for 2010
Montgomery County Courier 2009-12-31Commercially available grapes vines (vitis vinifera – the classic grapes) that are resistant to Pierce's Disease will become available to Texas vineyards by ...
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Cuts in funding, pests, trapping
Ukiah Daily Journal 2009-12-26The Glassy Winged Sharpshooter is a pest that can spread Pierce's Disease, and funding is critical, the county's legislative report stated. ... and more ...
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Whitmer re-appointed Ag Commissioner
St. Helena Star 2009-12-17... Whitmer outlined his accomplishments during his most recent tenure, including maintaining Napa County as an area free of the glassy-winged sharpshooter , ...
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County ag commissioner retires
Lompoc Record 2009-12-16... without too much controversy in residential areas, during outbreaks of pests such as the light brown apple moth and the glassy-winged sharpshooter ...
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State declares county free of vineyard pest
Sacramento Bee 2009-12-16The California Department of Food and Agriculture has declared Sacramento County free of the glassy-winged sharpshooter , an insect that transmits a disease ... and more ...
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County ag commissioner retires
Santa Maria Times 2009-12-14... without too much controversy in residential areas, during outbreaks of pests such as the light brown apple moth and the glassy-winged sharpshooter ...
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Deadline nears for USDA grants
Napa Valley Register 2009-12-10A sample of projects that qualify include: vineyard cover crops, streambank stabilization and riparian Pierce's disease management, livestock watering and ... and more ...
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Florida Wine (BellaOnline)
Florida Wine 2009-11-30Will Florida be the next fashionable wine producing area? Peter F May doesn't think so. Florida has a lot going for it but is struggling to make great wines ...
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Nebraska wine's a fine idea for gifts (North Platte Telegraph)
Nebraska wine's a fine idea for gifts 2009-11-29World-Herald News Service NORFOLK - Short on gift ideas? Take a look at Nebraska wines ...
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WINES, WITH NOTES OF MBA
El Paso Inc 2009-11-28... sensing technologies and diagnostic devices, including a hand-held device to detect Pierce's disease , a bacterial infection that can wipe out vineyards. ... and more ...
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Pest quarantines disrupt farms and nurseries
California Farm Bureau 2009-11-24He said the psyllid program utilizes a regimen similar to that used to combat the glassy - winged sharpshooter , which carries Pierce's Disease in grapes. ... and more ...
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Lodi woman to head state growers group
Stockton Record 2009-11-24... she expects to tackle issues such as renewal of the industry grape assessment used to combat Pierce's disease and the glassy - winged sharpshooter ; ...
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Challenge of invasive pests
Western Farm Press 2009-11-23Wynn directs the 10-year-old program to control the Glassy-Winged Sharpshooter ( GWSS ), the vector for Pierce's disease. It has been challenging, ...
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The First, and Greatest, Reality Show: Evolutionary Biology
Discover Magazine 2009-11-23One of the most intimate so-called mutualisms can be found inside a notorious enemy of the American farmer, an insect called the glassy - winged sharpshooter ...
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Of Pests and People (Napa Valley Register)
Of Pests and People 2009-11-22When it comes to the European grapevine moth or light brown apple moth, the main battle is man versus insect for control of vineyards ...
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Moth Wars (Napa Valley Register)
Moth Wars 2009-11-22Napa County grapegrowers are used to looking for trouble in the form of bad weather, mildew on grape clusters or the vine-killing phylloxera that has twice swept through the valley ...
