- Author: Faith Kearns
The novel coronavirus, COVID-19, is affecting people across the globe, in states and cities, in our backyards, and our own living spaces. Unlike many other kinds of disasters, which are relatively geographically and temporally limited, this one is hitting many millions of people around the world at essentially the same time. However, the experience of COVID-19 is not the same for everyone – it varies by many of the same factors that affect other disaster and public health outcomes including race, income, employment type and status, household responsibilities, and housing status.
Like many...
- Author: Faith Kearns
Climate variability and the mismatch between where water is and where people need it to be are two defining forces of life in California. Therefore, water storage, conveyance, and transfer are major issues in the state, and water markets have arisen as one way of facilitating the movement of water from one place to another at specific times.
In a new paper published in the journal Water, Kurt Schwabe and Mehdi Nemati of UC Riverside partnered with Clay Landry and...
- Author: Faith Kearns
“Water management is one of the most important farming practices you or your clients should be practicing, full stop,” wrote Phoebe Gordon, UC Cooperative Extension orchard systems advisor in Madera and Merced counties.
Born and raised in California, Gordon is excited to share her knowledge with growers to improve orchard production and sustainability in the San Joaquin Valley and beyond. Her research and extension program focuses on water quality, soil salinity, plant nutrition, and pests and diseases in tree crops including...
- Author: Kathryn M Stein
Mallika Nocco is an Assistant Cooperative Extension Specialist in Soil-Plant-Water Relations in the Department of Land, Air and Water Resources at UC Davis.
You are new to UC Davis and UC ANR. Can you tell us a little bit about your background?
I grew up in Minnesota and studied philosophy, cultural studies, and comparative literature at the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities. After graduating, I moved to Wisconsin and worked in pharmaceutical sales for about five years.
I found a passion for gardening and extension through participating...
- Author: Faith Kearns
When drought hits California, as it inevitably does, ranchers are among the first to feel it. In a state with distinct wet and dry seasons, the window in which the largely rain-fed grasses that nourish livestock can grow opens and closes quickly. Even small deviations in expected precipitation can alter what a ranching operation looks like in any given year.
Coping with that variation is therefore fundamental for California ranchers, and hard-won knowledge and approaches to dealing with drought are often passed from generation to generation. But, what happens when ranchers that don't come from multi-generation ranching families confront drought?
That's the...