Growing California Avocados

The California Avocado Society will host a Wells and Pumps Avocado Field Day on June 27 from 9:00 – 11:00 a.m. at the Nick Stehly Ranch in San Diego County.

Jesse Landesman, a Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research Fellow at UC-Santa Barbara, is developing a modeling framework to assess soil salinization risk in California avocado groves as part of her doctoral research. The end goal is to create a decision-making tool for California avocado growers that will assist them in mitigating the effects of soil salinization in existing orchards as well as identifying potential new orchard locations at lower risk for salinization.

On June 3, the California Avocado Society will host an Innovations and Insights field day from 9:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. at Limoneira Ranch located in Santa Paula, CA. Presentations will take place in the field and be followed by a catered lunch.

California avocado growers living in San Diego County are encouraged to attend the Sustainable Agricultural Lands Conservation program’s Forum for Cultivating Solutions. The event is designed to identify solutions to the economic challenges faced by agricultural producers in this region.

The California Avocado Commission will host a grower field day on Tuesday, May 20 at the Pine Tree Ranch demonstration grove that will focus on the new online irrigation calculator, rootstock trial results and pruning strategies.

On June 17, the University of California Cooperative Extension Agriculture and Natural Resources department is hosting a comprehensive Avocado Irrigation Workshop from 1:00 – 4:00 p.m. The seminar will take place at the San Diego Farm Bureau located at 420 South Broadway, Escondido, CA.