Alfalfa, Dry Beans, Sugarbeets, Forages,   Oil Crops Program

Carol Frate  Farm Advisor  Phone: (559) 685-3309 Ext. 214 cafrate@ucdavis.edu

Calendar of Events

• Check this section for upcoming events

Newsletters/Publications

• Field Crop Notes - 4-6 issues per year; timely production information on alfalfa, dry bean, sugarbeet, corn and wheat production. Meeting announcements for these same crops

• Alfalfa Hay
• Corn
• Dry Beans
• Sugarbeet

• UC Cooperative Extension Cost and Return Studies
• Alfalfa - San Joaquin - 300 Acre Planting 2003(PDF file)
• Alfalfa - San Joaquin - 50 Acre Planting 2003(PDF file)
• Corn - San Joaquin Valley Field- 2003(PDF file)
• Corn - San Joaquin Valley Silage- 2001 (PDF file)

 

Pest, Disease and Weed Information

• 1997 Alfalfa Symposium Paper on Sclerotinia NEW !!!
• 1999 Alfalfa Symposium Paper on Sclerotinia NEW !!!
• Chart - Susceptibility of Annual Broadleaf Weeds to Herbicides Registered for Use in Alfalfa in California (PDF)
• Chart - Susceptibility of Annual and Perennial Grass Weeds to Herbicides Registered for Use in Alfalfa in California (PDF)
• Alfalfa Diseases - Sclerotinia (white mold), sclerotia and apothecia
  • Treehopper - Photo
• Corn Stunt Disease - A Costly Problem for Growers and Dairymen
• Evaluation of Candidate Insecticides for Control of the Corn Leafhopper, Dalbulus Maidis, In the San Joaquin Valley
  Courtesy of the Plant Protection Quarterly, an IPM publication put out by the U.C. Kearney Ag Center
  http://www.uckac.edu/ppq/
  
  
• Sclerotinia apothecia
• Sclerotinia Symptoms on Alfalfa

Links

• UC Alfalfa Workgroup Home Page