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  • Volunteers rate the landscape plants during the Fall Open House at the South Coast Research and Extension Center in August 2022. All photos by Saoimanu Sope.
    Your water-efficient landscape doesn’t have to be barren

    Jan 17, 2023

    • Environment
    • Natural Resources
    • Yard & Garden
  • Erik Porse
    Porse named director of California Institute for Water Resources

    Jan 11, 2023

    • Natural Resources
  • A new rice crop rotation calculator, available at https://rice-rotation-calculator.ipm.ucanr.edu, helps California farmers determine if the practice makes financial sense for their fields. Photo by Evett Kilmartin
    New tool calculates crop rotation costs, benefits for California rice growers

    Dec 1, 2022

    • Agriculture
    • Food
    • Innovation
  • Former Ph.D. student Amninder Singh collects drone and soil moisture data to evaluate the response of hybrid bermudagrass to different irrigation levels using recycled water and a soil moisture sensor-based smart irrigation controller. The study was conducted at UC ANR South Coast Research and Extension Center in Irvine.
    UCCE water management expert helps save water, increase supply in SoCal

    Nov 14, 2022

    • Natural Resources
    • Yard & Garden
  • Ben Faber presents heat and drought effects on avocados.
    San Diego avocado growers look to Cooperative Extension experts to manage water costs

    Oct 19, 2022

    • Agriculture
    • Food
  • UC Davis to study whether agave could be a drought-tolerant and sustainable crop in California. Photo by Stephan Hinni on Unsplash
    Agave: The new drought-tolerant California crop?

    Aug 11, 2022

    • Agriculture
    • Environment
    • Food
  • Tayebeh Hosseini, a UCCE research staff member, takes canopy infrared images to study the growth of desert sweet corn. Photo by Ali Montazar
    Drip-irrigation study sees ‘huge’ reduction in water, fertilizer use for sweet corn

    Jun 16, 2022

    • Agriculture
    • Environment
    • Food
  • Rice experiments being conducted in a field. Photo by Julia Bailey-Serres/UC Riverside
    New strategies to save the world’s most indispensable grain

    May 27, 2022

    • Agriculture
    • Food
  • UC Cooperative Extension advisor Igor Lacan, right, describes to 6th grade students some of the plants and animals that live in the water at the beach.
    Elementary school students explore water’s role in life

    May 20, 2022

    • 4-H
    • Environment
  • UC Cooperative Extension is teaching people how to measure and report the water they divert from streams. Water is diverted onto a crop field Photo by Khaled Bali
    Water measurement and reporting courses offered by UCCE May 26

    Apr 26, 2022

    • Agriculture
  • Parthenocissus tricuspidata, known as Boston ivy, growing at the Hickey Gym on the UC Davis campus. Photo by Emily C. Dooley, UC Davis
    Can vines speed urban cooling?

    Apr 21, 2022

    • Environment
    • Natural Resources
  • A view of one plot in the artificial rainfall experiment at Boyd Deep Canyon Desert Research Center. Photo by Marko Spasojevic, UCR
    With dwindling water supplies, the timing of rainfall matters

    Apr 20, 2022

    • Environment
    • Natural Resources
  • Nationally, 17% of treated water is wasted due to leaks in the delivery system. Photo by Terry Vlisidis on Unsplash
    Leaks an untapped opportunity for water savings

    Mar 8, 2022

    • Environment
  • University of California Cooperative Extension irrigation and water management advisor Ali Montazar visits an avocado orchard in San Diego County to assist a grower with irrigation and salinity management issues. Photo courtesy of Ali Montazar
    Avocado growers to get irrigation tools, strategies from UC ANR’s Montazar

    Feb 15, 2022

    • Agriculture
    • Food
  • UC report recommends supporting local support Indigenous leadership, knowledge and practices to help manage healthy ecosystems.
    How can California protect its water supply from wildfire?

    Dec 8, 2021

    • Environment
    • Natural Resources
  • Igor Lacan, UCCE environmental horticulture and urban forestry advisor, scoops aquatic life from a stream on Elkus Ranch.
    Water Wizards will reach out to Bay Area kids

    Nov 29, 2021

    • Natural Resources
  • The scientists will work with growers, irrigation districts and ecosystem managers to develop data and tools to help adopt and adapt climate-resilience strategies, said Safeeq Khan.
    UC Merced leads innovative effort to secure water for agriculture and ecosystems

    Oct 8, 2021

    • Environment
  • A UC Davis graduate student measures photosynthesis on cabernet sauvignon grapevines. (Photo by Kaan Kurtural/UC Davis)
    Coastal grape growers can use less water during drought

    Sep 1, 2021

    • Agriculture
    • Environment
    • Food
  • Voluntary drinking water testing programs are now present in every state, funded by nationwide federal grants supporting testing in child-care facilities and schools. Photo by Evett Kilmartin
    Interactive map flags locations of tap water contamination

    Aug 13, 2021

    • Health
  • With climate change creating a new hydrologic regime, with more precipitation falling as rain than snow and higher evaporative demand, the state may be more at risk for drought now than in year's past according to Safeeq Khan, UC Cooperative Extension specialist.
    Precipitation and water levels in California

    May 13, 2021

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