2012 Yearbook
Volume 95
Table of Contents
5. California Avocado Society Mission Statement
The California Avocado Society
8. 2012 California Avocado Society Officers and Directors
10. California Avocado Society Past Presidents
12. Minutes of the 2012 Annual Meeting
16. 2012 California Avocado Society Financial Statements FY
21. Report from the President
25.
2012 Award of Honor
Gary S. Bender
28. Awards of Honor Past Recipients
33.
2012 Oliver Atkins Award
Sam McIntyre
35. Oliver Atkins Awards of Excellence Past Recipients
36. Special Award of Merit by California Avocado Society
38.
In Memoriam
Alva Snider
40.
In Memoriam
Don Gustafson
General
45.
Biochar as a soil amendment for
avocado production
David Crowley
65.
Developments in the South African
avocado industry
Derek Donkin
70.
Best management practice in avocado
orchard management
Donald J. Merhaut,
Lea Corkidi, Ben Faber, Julie Newman, Sonya Webb
Marketing
91. If past is prologue, get ready for a new wave of avocado category
success
Emiliano Escobedo
102 Season Graphs – 2012 Crop Year
Technical
107.
The persea mite invasion into California: history, biology, management, and current status
Mark S. Hoddle and
Joseph G. Morse
139.
A commercial extract of the brown
seaweed Ascophyllum nodosum suppresses avocado thrips and persea mites
in field-grown Hass avocados, a practical field perspective
David Holden and
Robin E. Ross
151. Sampling guidelines for persea mite in California avocado
orchards
Jesús R. Lara and Mark S. Hoddle
175. Hass avocado modulates postprandial vascular reactivity
and postprandial inflammatory responses to a hamburger meal in healthy
volunteers
Zhaoping Li, Angela Wong, Susanne M. Henning, Yanjun Zhang, Alexis Jondes,
Alona Zerlin, Gail Thames, Susan Bowerman, Chi-Hong Tsent and David Heber
Membership Lists
196. Membership Lists