California Agricultural Labor Association will be hosting a Commercial Industry Education Program on Friday, August 30th at the Lindsay Wellness Center – 860 North Sequoia Ave., Lindsay, CA 93247 from 9:00 am to 11:00 am. This event is in partnership with the California Highway Patrol to discuss specific topics to anyone in the commercial trucking [...]
The CCM Scholarship Committee has awarded 5 outstanding students with an academic scholarship for the 2019-20 school year. Each of the selected students will pursue a higher education in their chosen fields and have demonstrated excellent leadership, academic, and philanthropic achievements. Please join us in congratulating Aaron Black, Camille Alamo, Ana Cristina Moron Guzman, Jennifer [...]
It is with deep sadness that we learned that Charles W. Coggins, Jr. passed away on Aug 18, 2019, at the age of 88. Coggins served as Chairman of the Board of Directors for the California Citrus Quality Council from November 1992 to January 2008. In 2003, he was presented with CCQC’s highest honor, the [...]
The Lindcove Research and Extension Center will host a Field Day on “Fruit Scarring by Thrips, Katydids and Earwigs in Mandarins and Oranges” August 21st from 8:30 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. Various experiments and trials were conducted in May this year at the Lindcove Research and Extension Center. PCAs and growers will have the opportunity [...]
The next U.C. Experts Talk “Understanding effective citrus spray application through computer simulations” will be held via webinar on August 21, 2019 from 3 p.m. to 4 p.m. Sufficient spray deposition or coverage throughout target tree canopies is an ultimate goal of citrus pesticide application. Yet, how to achieve this goal is usually a challenge [...]
The Citrus Pest & Disease Prevention Program is offering packinghouses and growers the opportunity to host a free Spanish-language training workshop for field crew staff about how to prevent Huanglongbing (HLB) from threatening the California citrus industry’s livelihood and infecting commercial orchards. We must all do our part if we’re going to protect California citrus [...]
