CULTURAL TIP: ARE YOU UTILIZING THE RESOURCES AVAILABLE TO YOU?
In order to continually develop and improve your production practices, it is essential to utilize the grower resources readily available to you. Below we have listed just a few of the many resources available to avocado growers.
- CAC’s Grower Website: CaliforniaAvocadoGrowers.com provides a number of resources including: crop and market information, research progress reports, Greensheet archives, fact sheets and meeting agendas. Information is updated weekly, so make a habit of checking in on a regular basis.
- Avocadosource.com: The free, virtual library of avocado knowledge. This web site is funded and managed by the Hofshi Foundation; a non-profit foundation dedicated to the dissemination of avocado knowledge around the globe.
- California Avocado Society: It is the mission of the California Avocado Society (CAS) to promote efficiency of production and orderly marketing toward assuring long term profitability for the business of avocado growing. CAS conducts grower seminars and provides a number of tools, including the grower handbook, to aide California growers in improving their production practices. Visit http://www.californiaavocadosociety.org/ for more information or to become a member.
- University of California Cooperative Extension (UCCE) Farm Advisors: UCCE Farm Advisors extend useful, technical, and economic research-based information to producers in their assigned county or counties. They provide local subject matter leadership and expertise in assigned areas to determine and evaluate clientele problems. Click here to locate a farm advisor in your county.
