Sacramento Valley Walnut News

• Save the Dates
• Non-Trivial Trivia
• Fall Walnut Orchard Management in Lean Times
• Freeze Reminder
• Cover Crop Termination

• Preharvest Orchard Considerations
• Pest Reports Available Online
• IPM on a Budget
• New Staff Research Associate

• Walnut Management Considerations
• New Advisor!
• Perspectives on Walnut Economics Panel Discussions: A Recap
• Tree-pull Program Update
• Third Thursdays: Things from the Field

• Winter Walnut Management Resources
• 2024 Meetings
• Winter Chill, Dormancy and Walnut Management
• Fungicide Efficacy

• Meeting Save the Dates
• Trees-to-tomatoes
• Walnut Variety Trial Introduction
• New Advisor Introduction

• Fall Walnut Considerations
• Minimize Potential Sudden Autumn Freeze Damage
• Plant Cover Crops Now to Prepare for Another Wet Winter
• "Field Visit: Nematode Management in Walnut” was held in Escalon, CA

• New Summer Management Considerations
• New Orchard Advisor!

• New Orchard Advisor - Clarissa Reyes
• Walnut Management Considerations
• Healthy Orchards with a Careful Approach to Irrigation
• Thinking About Skipping or Shorting Nitrogen This Year?
• Prioritizing Sprays When You Can’t Afford Them All
• Strategies for orchard weed management hard economic situations
• Tree and Vine Crop Herbicide Chart

• Walnut Winter Management Considerations
• Vegetation for Infiltration
• 2022 Walnut Crop Loss and Poor Nut Quality – What happened?
• Winter Chill, Dormancy and Walnut Management
• New Orchard Advisor
• Meeting Announcements
• Follow us on Twitter!

• Time for a Hard Look
• Upcoming Orchard Meetings
• Walnut Management Considerations
• Six Steps to Prepare for the Next Sudden Autumn Freeze
• New IPM advisor introduction
• NOW pre & post-harvest
• Follow us on Twitter!

• Walnut Management Considerations
• Mid to Late-season Drought Strategies for Walnut Orchards
• Managing Mold in Walnut, 2022 Update
• New Staff Research Associate
• Follow us on Twitter!
• Growing the Valley Podcast

• Walnut Management Considerations
• Walnut Blight Management Update
• Selecting the Best Walnut Rootstock for Your Situation
• Walnut fungicide and bactericide efficacy tables
• Tree and Vine Crop Herbicide Chart
• Follow us on Twitter!

• Walnut Freeze Damage Survey
• Tree Crop IPM Webinar
• Walnut Freeze Webinar
• Orchard Management Considerations
• Five Steps to Prepare for the Next Sudden Autumn Freeze
• Fall Walnut IPM
• New Advisor Introduction
• New UCCE Central Valley Pistachio News
• Follow us on Twitter!

• Orchard Management Considerations
• Drought Strategies for Walnut Orchards
• 2020 Walnut Freeze: Road to Recovery
• Managing Mold in Walnut
• New Staff Research Associate Introduction
• Growing the Valley Podcast

• UCCE Virtual Walnut Series
• Orchard Management Considerations
• New walnut variety "UC Wolfskill" released
• Pulling the trigger for the start of irrigation in the spring: Too much too soon for walnuts?
• New Staff Research Association Introduction
• Tree and Vine Crop Herbicide chart - Updated 2021

• UCCE Virtual Walnut Series
• Walnut Winter Management
• What new research into carbohydrates is teaching us about California orchards

February 16 and 17, 2021 | 9:00 am - 12:00 pm

• Fall Walnut Orchard Management Considerations
• Tree and Orchard Replanting Considerations in a Lean Price Year
• Walnut Cultivar Table
• Selecting the Right Clonal Walnut Rootstock for Managing Soil and Pest Problems
• Allan Fulton, Irrigation/Walter Advisor Retires

• Pre-Harvest Walnut Orchard Management
• Managing Mold in Walnut
• Ethephon in Straggled Leaf-Out, Lean Price Year
• Managing walnut orchards for insect-eating birds
• Advisor Farewell

• 2020 UCCE Sacramento Valley Walnut Meetings
• Winter Pest & Weed Management Considerations
• Preparing for Extreme Events: Floods and Drought
• Young Orchard Weed Management
• New EPA Paraquat Restrictions
• Pre-Season Airblast Sprayer Calibration
• Navigating Irrigation Technology Overload

• 2019 IPM Breakfast Meeting
• Post-Harvest Almond and Walnut IPM Workshop
• Fall and Winter Walnut Management Considerations
• Preparing for extreme events: Freeze and Fire
• Increase Your Return on Investment with Post-Harvest Weed Scouting
• Wishing a Fond Farewell

Community Alliance with Family Farmers (CAFF) & the Farmers Guild invite you to a cover crop field day.

RSVP Required:

Please RSVP via Eventbright or by contacting emily@caff.org or at (925) 719-3379

Focus: Information sharing among growers and technical advisers regarding cover crops in Colusa County with particular attention on integrating cover crop into the management and seed selection

Walnut Growers:

We are sending this email extra because the California Walnut Board and Commission wanted to make it widely known to walnut growers that the USDA announced details of the Market Facilitation Program which provides for payments to walnut growers. 

Attached you will find the details on eligibility, payment calculation and how to apply. Please spread the word to other walnut growers who may not be on this email list. 

• Walnut Orchard Management
• Cost and Expense Considerations in a Lean Price Year:
  • IPM on a Budget - Cost Savings Strategies for Insect & Mite Management
  • Maximizing walnut quality to improve value in a low-price year
  • Should You Use Ethephon in a Lean Price Year?
• Autumn Freeze Event and Spring Regrowth Update
• Advisor Retiring
• IPM Breakfast Meetings

• Orchard Management Considerations: Budbreak through Early Summer
• 2019 IPM Breakfast Meetings
• Walnut Blight Management in 2019
• Revisiting Your Codling Moth IPM Program in a Lean Crop Year
• Pulling the trigger for the state of irrigation in the spring: Too much too soon for walnuts?
• Tree and Vine Crop Herbicide Chart 2019

• 2019 UCCE Winter Walnut Meetings
• Scale Pest, Navel Orangeworm, and Flatheaded Borers
• Cost and Expense Considerations in a Lean Price Year
• Tracking Winter Irrigation Needs
• Updated Walnut Cost Study
• 2019 IPM Breakfast Meetings
• Growing the Valley Podcast: Walnut episodes posted!

• 2018 Walnut Production Short Course
• Post-Harvest Almond and Walnut IPM Workshop
• 2019 Winter Walnut Meetings
• Fall Orchard Management Considerations
• Pruning with BOT Infections in Mind
• Optimizing Your Orchard Spacing
• Impacts and Recovery of Walnuts from 2017 Flooding

• Early Walnut Tree Training and How to Use a Pressure Chamber for Irrigation scheduling Workshop
• IPM Meetings
• Walnut Production Short Course
• Walnut Orchard Management - June through August
• Early Walnut Tree
• Leaf symptoms of overwatering walnut trees
• Growing the Valley Podcast

• 2018 IPM Breakfast Meetings
• Orchard Management Considerations
• A New Tool in the Fight Against Blight
• 2018 Winter and Early Season Irrigation Considerations in Walnut
• 2017 Flood Damaged Trees - Research Results and What to Do this Spring
• Tree and Vine Crop Herbicide Chart – Updated (2018)

Friday, November 17th, 2017, 8:00am – 12:00pm
Chico Veteran’s Memorial Hall, 554 Rio Lindo Avenue, Chico CA 95926

UC IPM Almond & Walnut Harvest Evaluation:  Identifying Sources of Damage

• Fall Walnut Orchard Considerations
• End of Season Flooded Orchard Damage Update
• Considerations for Replanting a Walnut Orchard
• Biofumigation Basics
• 2018 UCCE Winter Walnut Meetings

Upcoming IPM Breakfast Meetings

Farm Advisor Introduction

In-Season Walnut Production Considerations

Insect and Mite Updates - 2017

Flooded Orchard Damage Update and Management Considerations

Website Resource

• Orchard Management Considerations: Budbreak through Early Summer
• Walnut Blight Management
• Monitoring Codling Moth in and Near Mating Disruption Orchards
• Lastes on Managing Bot Canker and Blight in Walnut - 2016 Research Updates
• Flooded Orchards: Past Experiences and What to Do in 2017
• Upcoming Meetings
• 2017 Herbicide Chart

• 2017 UCCE Walnut Meetings
• New Monthly IPM Breakfast Meetings
• Sacramento Valley Orchard Source Website
• Counting Winter Chill
• NOW Update

Upcoming Walnut Meetings:

1. February 21st - Sutter-Yuba-Colusa Walnut Day
2. February 28th (AM) - Walnut (9th leaf) Pruning systems compared in No Pruning long term study & Bot pruning wound study Field Meeting
3. February 28th (PM) - Walnut (2nd leaf & 4th leaf) No Pruning/Variation of No Pruning/Pruning Grower Comparison Field Meeting

• New Website Resource for Sac Valley Tree Crop Production
• In-Season Walnut Production Considerations
• Walnut Husk Fly Update 2016
• Tipping the Scales to Favor Walnut Quality
• Selecting the Right Clonal Rootstock for Managing Soil and Pest Problems
• Are you Pushing Out a Chandler Orchard in the Next Year? Call Kat!

• Orchard Management Considerations: Delayed Dormant through Early Summer
• The Latest on Managing Bot Canker and Blight - 2015 Research Updates
• Walnuts: When to Begin the Irrigation Season
• New walnut variety 'Durham' released
• Tree and Vine Crop Herbicide Chart

• 2016 UCCE Walnut Meetings
• Pruning Under the Threat of Bot
• Key to Navel Orangeworm Management - NOW is the Time
• Training Young Walnut Trees: Minimum Pruning vs. No Pruning Compared
• New Walnut Cost Study

• Advances in Walnut Production Short Course
• Late Summer and Fall Orchard Management Considerations
• Using Ethephon for Earlier Harvest
• Naval Orangeworm in Walnuts
• Preparing Young Walnut Trees for Winter

• Advances in Walnut Production Short Course
• Walnut Orchard IPM Activities
• Walnut Blight Management
• Preventing Walnut scale and Botryosphaeria canker and blight
• Herbicide Chart

• Upcoming UCCE Meetings
• Walnut Year-Round IPM Plan and Winter Orchard Pest Management Activities
• Walnut Orchards Planted in 2014 - What to do NOW?
• Pistachio meeting information

SAVE THE DATES:

• Save the Date: Sutter-Yuba-Colusa 2015 Walnut Day, February 25th
• Fall Walnut Orchard Management Considerations
• How to Avoid Freeze Damage in Young Walnut Trees
• Black Mushy Walnut Hulls - Possible Causes
• Orchard Removal and Site Preparation for Walnut Planting
• New UC Walnut Budding, Grafting and Planting Video Released
• Sutter and Yuba County Walnut Theft Ordinance
• Pistachio Meeting Information

• New IPM Advisor
• New Farm Advisor
• Farm Advisor Retirement
• Scale Identification and Lifecycles in Walnut Orchards
• Walnut Husk Fly Trap and Low Volume Spray Study Update
• Irrigation Management Tools for Developing Walnut Trees

• California Walnut Research: moving the industry forward
• New Farm Advisor Introduction
• Understanding and Managing Botryosphaeria and Phomopsis Canker and Blight in Walnut
• Watch for Early Insect Activity
• Perspective on trends in orchard spacing, pruning and potential disease
• Springtime Recovery from Winter Freeze Damage
• Save the Date: Irrigation Scheduling & Drought Management Strategies meeting

• 2014 Walnut Meetings
• Managing Ground Squirrels and Pocket Gophers in Orchards
• Winter Cold and Irrigation During Drought
• Training Young Walnut Trees: Minimum Pruning vs. No Pruning Compared
• Nitrogen Management Planning

• Irrigation Management Tools for Developing Walnut Trees
• Walnut Husk Fly Trap Study
• Howard Nut Drop
• Ethephon Use Considerations in the Sacramento Valley

• 2013 Walnut Blight Management
• Spacing Walnuts for Optimum Light Interception and Production
• Guidelines for Handling Potted Walnut Clonal Rootstock Plants
• New Walnut Variety 'Solano' Released
• Walnut Hush Fly Meeting

Walnut Trade Show

Monday, January 14^th 2013

Yuba-Sutter Fairgrounds Main Exhibit Hall, 442 Franklin Avenue Yuba City, CA

Educational Seminars, Equipment, Technology, and Innovations

(1 hour of DPR CE credit, approved)

• Management of First Year Walnut Trees in Fall and Spring
• Orchard Removal and Site Preparation for Walnut Planting
• Points to Consider in the Prevention of Crown Gall
• Diagnosing and Managing Branch Wilt Disease
• Guidelines for Handling and Planting Bareroot Walnut Nursery Trees
• UCCE Online Giving
• Newsletter Delivery
• UC Publications

• Anthracnose, Botryosphaeria, and Phomopsis in Walnut - Updates
• 2012 Walnut Blight
• Orchard Management Impacts on Walnut Quality
• New Walnut Costs Study for the Sacramento Valley
• Advisor Retirement and New Position Proposals
• New Sutter County CIMIS Weather Station
• Newsletter Delivery

• Walnut Blight Management
• Training and Pruning Young Walnut Trees
• Description of the Three Training/Pruning Styles Compared in the Chandler Hedgerow Trial
• Tools for Weed Management Decisions in Orchard Crops
• California Herbicide Registration on Horticulture Tree and Vine Crops
• Walnut Pruning Field Meeting

• The Science (and Art) of Ethephon Use on Walnut
• Additional Ethephon Use Considerations in the Sacramento Valley
• Considerations When Replanting Individual Trees in a Walnut Orchard
• How Traps Are Used to Monitor Walnut Husk Fly
• Walnut Huller and Dehydrator Food Safety Good manufacturing Practices (GMP) Checklist
• Useful Websites Related to Walnut Production

• Howard Nut Drop
• Codling Moth - The 2011 Season
• Movento ® (Spirotetramat) as a Nematicide
• Update on New Walnut Varieties: Forde, Gillet, and Sexton
• Preparing Young Walnut Trees for Winter