Following are research articles, news stories and editorials appearing in California Agriculture, Volume 50, Numbers 1 through 6, January through December 1996. Titles preceded by an asterisk are sidebars.

ANIMAL AND AVIAN SCIENCES
Early sexual experience improves ram breeding - Price, Dally, Borgwardt Jul-Aug p. 37

ECONOMICS AND FARM MANAGEMENT
Crew workers split between hourly and piece-rate pay - Billikopf Nov-Dec p. 5

Grower beliefs determine hiring practices - IsÞ et al. Mar-Apr p. 17

Growers prefer personal delivery of UC information - Buchner et al. May-Jun p. 20

Image processing extracts more information from color infrared aerial photos - Denison et al. May-Jun p. 9

Overinflated tractor tires waste fuel, reduce productivity - Lancas et al Mar-Apr p. 28

FIELD CROPS
Deep plowing exacerbates lettuce drop in Salinas Valley - Subbarao, Koike, Hubbard Sep-Oct p. 30

Postemergence herbicides and application time affect wheat yields - Orr et al. Jul-Aug p. 32

FOOD AND CONSUMER SCIENCE
Californians' eating habits differ from their dietary attitudes - Bruhn, Wong, Schutz Sep-Oct p. 22

Radio is effective in teaching nutrition to Latino families - Wright et al. Nov-Dec p. 14

HUMAN AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
Trained home composters reduce solid waste by 18% - Vossen, Rilla Sep-Oct p. 11

SOILS, WATER, FERTILIZATION AND WEATHER
Labor costs may offset water savings of sprinkler systems - Wichelns et al. Jan-Feb p. 11

How does water price affect irrigation technology adoption? - Green et al. Mar-Apr p. 36

Nitrogen isotope ratios identify nitrate contamination sources - Rolston et al. Mar-Apr p. 32

Ozone air pollution increases spray oil phytotoxicity - Retzlaff et al. Mar-Apr p. 21

Rotator nozzles more uniform than spray nozzles on center pivot sprinklers - Hanson, Orloff Jan-Feb p. 32

Variable-frequency drives for electric irrigation pumping plants save energy - Hanson, Weigand, Orloff Jan-Feb p. 36

FORESTRY AND RANGE SCIENCE
Blue oak seedlings may be older than they look - Phillips et al. May-Jun p. 17

Harvesting forest biomass reduces wildfire fuel - Nakamura Mar-Apr p. 13

Impact of firewood harvesting on hardwood rangelands varies with region - Standiford et al. Mar-Apr p. 7

Urban forestry adds $3.8 billion in sales to California economy - Templeton, Goldman Jan-Feb p. 6

FRUITS AND NUTS
Airborne imaging aids vineyard canopy evaluation - Johnson et al. Jul-Aug p. 14

Almond pruning wounds, bark abrasions susceptible to Ceratocystis - Teviotdale, Harper May-Jun p. 29

Almond trees grown on peach rootstock initially more productive - Micke et al. Jul-Aug p. 29

Conversion to organic strawberry management changes ecological processes - Gliessman et al. Jan-Feb p. 24

Late harvest, high CO2 storage increase internal browning of Fuji apples - Grant et al. May-Jun p. 26

New technique predicts gray mold in stored kiwifruit - Michailides, Morgan May-Jun p. 34

Reflective materials enhance 'Fuji' apple color - Andris, Crisosto Sep-Oct p. 27

LANDSCAPING AND HORTICULTURE
Wholesale nursery surveys reveal inventory, customers and business practices - Schuch, Klein Sep-Oct p. 16

PEST AND DISEASE MANAGEMENT, PESTICIDES
California grape phylloxera more variable than expected - Granett et al. Jul-Aug p. 9

Enzone does little to improve health of phylloxera-infested vineyards - Weber et al. Jul-Aug p. 19

Field-based phenological model predicts pink bollworm emergence - Adams, Hamilton, Beasley Sep-Oct p. 44

Metam-sodium kills beneficial soil fungi as well as cotton pests - Davis et al. Sep-Oct p. 42

Preemergence herbicides have little effect on vigor of perennial grasses - Lanini, Long, Anderson Sep-Oct p. 38

"Resistance-breaking" nematodes identified in California tomatoes - Kaloshian et al. Nov-Dec p. 18

Silverleaf whiteflies show no increase in insecticide resistance - Castle et al. Jan-Feb p. 18

Sinaloan beekeepers adjust pollination to Africanized bees - Ratnieks, Visscher Jul-Aug p. 24

Spring insecticide treatments control adelgids on Douglas fir - Varela, Cowles, Donaldson Sep-Oct p. 34

Tiny wasp helps protect eucalypts from eucalyptus longhorned borer - Hanks, Paine, Millar May-Jun p. 14

VEGETABLES
Vegetables, fruits and nuts account for 95% of organic sales in California - Klonsky, Tourte Nov-Dec p. 9

Verticillium wilt threatens coastal cauliflower crop - Koike et al. Mar-Apr p. 24

EDITORIALS
Inaugural issue editorial - Sproul Jan-Feb

UC can build on land-grant idea - Atkinson Mar-Apr

New technology delivers in new ways - Gomes May-Jun

No final answers for some research enigmas - Gomes Jul-Aug

Vintage facilities need creative funding - Gomes Sep-Oct

Division changes with the needs of Californians - Gomes Nov-Dec

50th ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL

50 years of California Agriculture p. 20

1946-1955 p. 22

1956-1965 p. 24

1966-1975 p. 25

1976-1985 p. 27

1986-1996 p. 29

Q & A Section

Harry Agamalian p. 32

Jack Dibble p. 33

Pat Snow p. 34

Henry Vaux, Sr. p. 35

Mary Ann Williams p. 36

George Zentmyer p. 38

James Meyer p. 39