Green Blog

A $4.6 million grant to UC Merced and UC Irvine will help UC Agriculture and Natural Resources researchers develop new tools and methods for California land owners to better manage the state's forests, shrub lands and grasslands.

UC Cooperative Extension cropping systems specialist Jeff Mitchell is issuing a standing invitation to the public to visit the site of an ongoing conservation agriculture research project and see for themselves the results of long-term soil-building practices.

Cannabis is unlike any other agricultural crop. Because of its circuitous history once illegal to grow, and now legal but heavily regulated cannabis has cast a unique footprint on the environment and the communities of farmers who grow it.

California is searching for solutions to the wildfire crisis. Livestock ranchers believe they can help.

In 2014, plant biologists with the California Department of Agriculture reported an alarming discovery: native wildflowers and herbs, grown in nurseries and then planted in ecological restoration sites around California, were infected with Phytophthora tentaculata, a deadly exotic plant pathogen tha...