ANR News Releases

News releases share the latest updates on Extension activities and impact by scientists and staff across UC Agriculture and Natural Resources.

Sheep shearing class at the UC Hopland Research and Extension Center in 2010. An online Q&A session on sheep shearing will be held this year due to COVID-19 restrictions on in-person meetings.

Webinar: Sheep shearing and basic care 101

May 4, 2020

By Hannah M Bird

The University of California Hopland Research and Extension Center (HREC) will offer a sheep shearing and basic care Q&A via Zoom from 3 to 4 p.m. May 7. The session will include advice from experienced shearers, flock managers and fiber experts.

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Coveralls should be worn for applications where contact with spray residue is likely. Photo by Katrina Hunter

PPE in short supply for farm work during the COVID-19 crisis

April 20, 2020

By Pamela S Kan-Rice

While most Californians are staying home to slow the spread of the novel coronavirus, California farmers, farmworkers and other agricultural professionals are out in the fields and packing houses working to produce food.

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UC nutrition educators distributed "Lunch to Grow" packages to families at an elementary school drive-through lunch pick up. Each package contained a vegetable seedling, potting soil, a small pot and instructions for planting.

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UC ANR extends information to more Californians online while social distancing

April 13, 2020

By Pamela S Kan-Rice

As Californians stay home to avoid the new coronavirus COVID-19, UC Agriculture and Natural Resources is working differently to continue delivering research-based information to Californians across the state.

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UC Agriculture and Natural Resources professionals are working and available. (Photo: Pixabay)

ANR is still working for Californians

March 18, 2020

By Linda Forbes

UC Agriculture and Natural Resources is available to assist Californians across the state during the new coronavirus crisis.

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Former dean Gordon Rausser has gifted $50 million to Berkeley’s College of Natural Resources, the largest amount ever received by the college. (UC Berkeley photo by Keegan Houser)

UC Berkeley College of Natural Resources receives $50 million gift

March 3, 2020

By Jeannette Warnert

The College of Natural Resources at the University of California, Berkeley, has been renamed the Rausser College of Natural Resources in honor of a landmark $50 million gift by Gordon Rausser, former dean of the college and the Robert Gordon Sproul Distinguished Professor Emeritus of agricultural an...

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