Strawberries and Caneberries

The venue for the UC Davis Strawberry Breeding Field Day on May 24 has been moved from Lompoc to 3590 Telephone Road, Santa Maria, CA. Agenda with the revised information along with a map is attached below.

My colleague Oleg Daugovish is putting on his annual fumigant and non-fumigant meeting this coming May 19; themes will be ASD, steam, Fusarium, diseases and regulation. Meeting announcement including the agenda is included below, you have to register and the link for that is included.

Interesting interview in this morning's Wall Street Journal with PepsiCo CEO Ramon Laguarta, who outlines the orientation of his company to not distance itself so much from its flagship products like colas and chips, but to nevertheless make them healthier by reducing sodium, sugar and saturated fat...

The UC Davis Strawberry Breeding Program is having two field days coming up. The first, on May 24, will be held in Lompoc and the second will be held on June 14 at Meridien Road in Prunedale. Both field days will feature the program's day-neutral varieties.

In keeping in our theme of flood related problems, the excess moisture has really added impetus to local snail and slug populations.