Avocado Café
January 11, 2023
Patrick Brown, Dept. of Plant Sciences, UC, Davis
Gary Bender, UC‐ANR, San Diego/Riverside County, Advisor Emeritus
December 1, 2022
Irrigation Management for Avocados
Ben Faber, UC‐ANR, Ventura/Santa Barbara Counties
Khaled Bali, UC-ANR Kearney Agricultural Center
November 17, 2022
Leaching & Interpreting your water and soil analysis
reports
Khaled Bali, UC-ANR Kearney Agricultural Center
Ben Faber, UC‐ANR, Ventura/Santa Barbara Counties
September 20, 2022
Understanding Irrigation – Part 4. Irrigation Scheduling
Khaled Bali, UC-ANR Kearney Agricultural Center
Daniele Zaccaria, UC Davis
August 30, 2022
Understanding Irrigation – Part 3. Irrigation Design and
Maintenance
Stu Styles, Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo
Jamie Whiteford, Ventura County Resource Conservation District
July
20, 2022
Understanding Irrigation – Part 2. Water quality and how avocados respond to salinity stress
David Yalin
Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
Silit Lazare
Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
June 2, 2022
Understanding Irrigation – Part 1. How the plant responds and the soil beneath
Mary Lu Arpaia, Department of Botany and Plant Sciences, University of
California, Riverside
Ben Faber, University of California, Agricultural and Natural Resources,
Ventura county
April 26, 2022
Fertilization of Avocado for Increased Yield Potentials
David Crowley, Professor Emeritus, Department of Environmental Sciences,
University of California, Riverside
March 29, 2022
Avocado productivity:
Understanding pollinators and their importance for avocado
fruit set
Arnon Dag, Institute of Plant Sciences, The Volcani Institute, Israel
Gordon Frankie, Department of Environmental Science, Policy, &
Management, UC Berkeley
Raffi Stern, MIGAL Galilee Research Institute, Israel
February 18, 2022
Avocado productivity: How the interplay of light and
vegetative vigor influences yield
Rodrigo Iturrieta, University of California, Riverside
Gerardo Adunate, Avocado Consultant, Chile
January 26, 2022
Innovation: How should we push the boundaries of
avocado growing –Intensive Management Systems?
Louise Ferguson - University of California, Davis
Zander Ernst - Allesbeste Nursery, Tzaneen, South Africa
December 13, 2021
Francisco Mena Völker - GAMA, Quillota, Chile
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