Strawberries and Caneberries

UC Cooperative Extension is hosting a Perishable Commodities Act meeting at its office on 1430 Freedom Blvd, Ste E in Watsonville on August 2. See flyer posted below for details.

I don't write too much about it in this space because it tends more in the area of "shop talk" for us in extension, but a great interest of mine is how one successfully executes a program of extension.

We found them. Referring back to the previous post, as our readers know we've been looking for spotted wing drosophila pupae under fruit in raspberries, and now on the second read have confirmed that they are indeed pupating within a centimeter of the fallen fruit.

Mark here. I'm including below really nice overview of the current ag labor issue in California by colleague Laura Tourte.

One of the unsolved mysteries of our work in berries has been what of the pupae of spotted wing drosophila?