Veterinary medicine in service to animal agriculture

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In the San Joaquin Valley, cotton aphids have become resistant to commonly used pesticides

Tobacco budworm, pest of petunias, can be managed with Bt

Dietary change among Latinos of Mexican descent in California

Consumer attitudes toward locally grown produce

Fuji apple, radicchio, basil, walnut top specialty crop research needs

Deterring compaction of soil by heavy machinery

Irrigated warm- and cool-season grasses compared in Northern California pastures

Fight weeds and increase forage: Using oats as a companion crop in establishing alfalfa

Paving the way to a better artichoke

Brown-bagging Granny Smith apples on trees stops codling moth damage

Behavior and reproductive physiology of blood-sucking snipe flies (Diptera: Rhagionidae: Symphoromyia) attacking deer in Northern California