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California Agriculture journal

California Agriculture is a peer-reviewed journal reporting research, reviews and news from the University of California and its Agriculture and Natural Resources division.

Comment on future ANR positions

Comment on future ANR positions
UC Agriculture and Natural Resources encourages all ANR stakeholders as well as employees to offer comments and provide input on Cooperative Extension advisor and specialist positions.

Asian Citrus Psyllid

Huanglongbing disease, one of the most devastating diseases of citrus, was detected in a backyard citrus tree in Los Angeles County. UC Agriculture and Natural Resources is working to control Asian citrus psyllid, which can transmit the bacterium that causes the disease.

Healthy Crops, Safe Water

Healthy Crops, Safe Water
Nitrate contamination of drinking water has been in the news recently. UC Agriculture and Natural Resources is working to ensure that all Californians have access to safe drinking water and to ensure that the state’s farmers can grow enough food to help meet the world’s increasing demand.

UC Consumer Economics

The UC Cooperative Extension Consumer Economics Program has created a new website that compiles useful research-based financial management programs and materials for the general public and professionals in formats that are easy-to-understand and use.

Let's Eat Healthy!

Let's Eat Healthy! is a nutrition education program offered to qualifying Placer and Nevada county preschools, schools, youth organizations and groups.

UC Fruit Report

The newly redesigned UC Fruit Report website contains useful horticultural information about establishing and managing fresh market peach, plum and nectarine orchards.

California Crop Improvement Association

The California Crop Improvement Association is officially recognized as the seed certifying agency under the California Seed Law. The mission of CCIA is to provide services and support research that promotes the improvement, production, distribution and use of superior quality seeds and other agricultural products.

California Rangeland Watershed Laboratory

The California Rangeland Watershed Laboratory studies and promotes the services that diverse, managed rangeland ecosystems provide to society.

Center for Invasive Species Research

The Center for Invasive Species Research, based on the University of California Riverside campus, provides a forward-looking approach to managing invasions in California by exotic pests and diseases.

UC Giannini Foundation

The UC Giannini Foundation was established in 1930 to promote and support research and outreach activities in agricultural economics and rural development relevant to California.

Postharvest Technology Center

The UC Davis Postharvest Technology Center has launched a newly redesigned website, incorporating a fresh look, easier navigation and accessibility, many more photographs, and a wider format.

Making Every Dollar Count

The Making Every Dollar Count website, Haga Rendir su Dinero in Spanish, is an interactive webpage designed to help families learn how to manage their income and conquer debt.

Woody Biomass Utilization

Woody biomass in forests is often burnt in piles, but it could be used to make products or energy. The Woody Biomass Utilization Group at UC Berkeley assists businesses, non-profits, tribes and agency staff in using the material in ways that are cost effective and environmentally sound.

Sudden Oak Death

The California Oak Mortality Task Force maintains the website http://www.suddenoakdeath.org in conjunction with its efforts to minimize the impact and spread of Phytophthora ramorum, the pathogen that causes Sudden Oak Death, on natural, agricultural, and human communities.

Mechanical Harvesting of Table Olives

A team of researchers from a variety of disciplines - including plant sciences, agricultural engineering and agricultural economics - are devoting attention to the mechanical harvest of table olives, a practice common in the olive oil industry.

CalAgTour.org

The University of California maintains an online agritourism database at http://calagtour.org, which was developed to bring together people who enjoy unique rural getaways with farmers who offer them.

Center for Weight and Health

Many Americans resolve to lose weight in the New Year. The Center for Weight and Health website provides science-based information on the causes and solutions for overweight, especially in children.

California Backyard Orchard

The middle of winter, when deciduous trees are dormant, is an excellent time to plant a backyard orchard. The California Backyard Orchard website contains advice for tree selection, soil preparation, planting and much more.

UC Food Safety

The University of California's vast resources on food safety are aggregated on the UC Food Safety website.

Conservation tillage

The Conservation Tillage and Cropping Systems Workgroup website is designed to help farmers investigate cropping management systems that have been shown in research and in practice to increase profits, reduce dust, conserve water and sequester carbon on the farm.

Citrus Entomology

The citrus entomology website provides up-to-date information about citrus pests and their natural enemies, including basic biology, hosts, distribution, monitoring methods and management tactics.

Wildfire Zone

4-H Youth Development

Groundwater Hydrology

California Gardening

A vast collection of gardening information accumulated by the California Master Gardener program is aggregated for the gardening public on the California Gardening Web site.

Money Talks

Money Talks is a money management curriculum aimed at 14- to 18-year-olds and the adults who work with them. The entire curriculum is offered free on the Money Talks Web site.

UC Integrated Pest Management Program

The UC Integrated Pest Management program has been at the forefront of computerized communications since its inception in the early 1980s.

California Agriculture

California Agriculture's online archive features more than fifty years of searchable research articles.