ANR advisors in action
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Building a better water trough
Added Oct 24, 2011UC Cooperative Extension supports the unique ground-level water trough idea developed by Monterey County rancher George Work.
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For best results, kids and parents both need nutrition education
Added Aug 11, 2011UC Cooperative Extension has found a health and fitness formula that works. Combining fun exercise and nutrition classes for kids with special sessions for parents melts away pounds and inches.
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Yellow starthistle
Added Jul 29, 2011This story is currently in development.
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Goats can help with yellow starthistle control
Added Jul 26, 2011Goats' penchant for eating almost any plant material can make them a valuable management tool for landowners faced with a yellow starthistle infestation.
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UCCE studies a Dutch invention for regenerating trees and shrubs on oak woodland
Added Jul 22, 2011Regenerating trees and shrubs with the Dutch Waterboxx
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There's a new avocado in town
Added Jul 19, 2011The UC Riverside avocado breeding program has identified a promising new avocado variety, which scientists believe will soon take off commercially.
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UC scientists continue the quest for alternatives to farm field chemical fumigation
Added Apr 28, 2010For the past 20 years, with increasing regulations on soil fumigants and decreasing availability of those that are most effective, UC agricultural scientists have been working on hundreds of research projects to find new alternatives.
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Public can help stem the spread of gold-spotted oak borer
Added Jan 13, 2010Mighty oaks succumbing to tiny invasive beetle need the public’s help
University of California scientists are calling on the public to help stem the spread of the gold-spotted oak borer, a small invasive beetle that has already killed 20,000 San Diego area coast live oak, black oak and canyon live oak trees. The key to preventing the pest’s spread to additional Southern, Central and Northern California woodlands, the scientists believe, is not moving beetle-infested oak firewood from one place to another.
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50 years of integrated pest management
Added Jan 13, 201050 years of integrated pest management
Fifty years ago in October, four pioneering University of California scientists outlined a new way of thinking about pest control, establishing a pest management framework that changed the way the world farms.
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California olive oil is worth the splurge
Added Jan 13, 2010California olive oil is worth the splurge
Healthful, flavorful and environmentally green, California olive oil has a promising future if word of its many benefits is effectively shared with consumers, according to UC Cooperative Extension farm advisor Paul Vossen, an olive oil expert.