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California Institute for the Study of Specialty Crops
CDFA - California Department of Food and Agriculture
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1220 N St, Suite A-400
Sacramento, CA 95814
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Pest & Disease Prevention
The Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Program Farmer-to-Farmer Outreach will assist specialty crop producers to adopt selected economically and environmentally sound agricultural practices.

The USDA-ARS group is working to develop resistant cultivars to manage Verticillium wilt of lettuce, a new emerging threat in California
$1.7 Million in Grants to Protect California's Ability to Respond to Invasive Pests
The California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA) awarded competitive grants and internal CDFA programs to conduct research on pest and disease prevention methods.

The CDFA Plant Health and Pest Prevention Services Division has begun three major projects to augment the agency's ability to respond to invasive agricultural pests:
  1. Exotic Fruit Fly DNA Analysis at the CDFA Plant Pest Diagnostics Laboratory
  2. Trace Element Analysis and Database Center for Analytical Chemistry
  3. Quarantine Treatment Research and Development by the CDFA Pesticide Consultation Branch.
New technologies under development in these projects will benefit a wide range of specialty crop growers in California. The projects were selected based on their ability to rapidly deliver results that would translate into measurable improvements for producers.

Click here to see a listing of these grants and learn more about their project status.
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