Ongoing wildfires occurring throughout California are continuing to cause smoke impacts to the San Joaquin Valley. While San Joaquin, Stanislaus, and Merced Counties are inundated with smoke from multiple Northern
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Extremely light traffic moves along the 110 Harbor Freeway toward downtown mid afternoon, March 20, 2020, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)
(CN) The rate of population growth in California slowed to its lowest point since 1900, according to a demographic analysis released by the California Department of Finance on Wednesday.
California’s population grew by 21,200 from July 1, 2019 to July 1, 2020, a growth rate of about 0.05 percent, even smaller than the previous lowest rate of 0.23 percent that occurred the year before.
“Those numbers are really startling,” said Mark Baldassare, president of the Public Policy Institute of California. “This isn’t the Golden State of the past, which was a place in which we saw people from other states and abroad coming to find their way to the California dream.”
Talks by a trio of specialists examine NOW, fungal problems, ants.
Once the major seasonal field work is done and the crop is proverbially in the barn, the tree nut focus moves to post-harvest analysis and lots of educational seminars on how to improve things the next time around.
At one held online recently, a trio of University of California specialists discussed diseases and pests found in almond and walnut orchards.
Jhalendra Rijal, northern San Joaquin Valley integrated pest management (IPM) advisor for Stanislaus, San Joaquin, and Merced Counties, spoke to the issue and control of the industry’s #1 pest – Navel orangeworm. Colleague Themis Michailides from the UC Cooperative Extension’s Kearney Agricultural Research and Extension Center, focused on control efforts of walnut mold, while Kris Tollerup, an IPM adviser at Kearney, discussed ants in almonds.