- Author: Jeannette E. Warnert
A story about California's dry spring weather in the Sacramento Bee today cited two UC Cooperative Extension experts: natural resources advisor Glenn Nader of Sutter, Yuba and Butte counties; and rice advisor Chris Greer of Sutter and Yuba counties.
The article, written by Chris Bowman, said spring 2008 was the driest in California history and has produced the most flammable landscape fire forecasters have ever seen this time of year in the Sacramento Valley and Sierra foothills.
"The rest of fire season does not bode well," Nader is quoted.
"We have a long summer and fall to get through, and we just hope for less wind and cooler...
- Author: Jeannette E. Warnert
The Santa Rosa Press Democrat noted in a story today that the Sonoma County Meat Buying Club, launched by UC Cooperative Extension early this year, is helping local residents interested in purchasing mainly local food.
The meat buying club supplies members with an assortment of local beef, pork and lamb in manageable monthly shipments of 7, 15 or 25 pounds.
“This way, people can have the local meat, but they don’t have to buy a whole lot of it,” the newspaper quoted UCCE livestock advisor Stephanie Larsen.
The story centered on a relatively new food movement, in which adherents...
- Author: Jeannette E. Warnert
The Arizona Star reported today that a lack of state financial support to the University of Arizona was a reason cited by the new dean of UC Riverside's College of Natural and Agricultural Sciences, Thomas O. Baldwin, to come to California.
The Star article noted that the opportunity to become a dean is a major step up in Baldwin's profession, but that he said the recurring cuts to the UA's budget played a central role in his decision to leave.
"There's no doubt about it," he is quoted. "I've been at the UA for nine years and taken cuts for seven of them."
The newspaper said Baldwin is the...
- Author: Jeannette E. Warnert
Frustration, depression and exasperation are conveyed in thousands of news stories and blog posts about the latest serious food-borne illness outbreak -- salmonella in fresh tomatoes. A Google News seach for "tomatoes salmonella" identifies more than 2,700 stories, many that will make farmers cringe. The San Francisco Chronicle ran an editorial titled "Killer Tomatoes." A headline in the
- Author: Jeannette E. Warnert
Magazine article reading online is growing in popularity. According to Marketing Analytics, authoritative research firms (Nielsen and Mediamark Research Inc.) found that an average of 83 percent of visitors to the Web sites of 23 large-circulation monthly magazines access those magazines’ content solely online.
That may be true, but some things are lost in the online posting. One is a new gimic from the current issue of Newsweek magazine. Häagen-Dazs is running an ad embedded with flower seeds that can sprout as the linen-based paper decomposes, according to a brief in the
