ANR Employee News

In May 2024, all UC Cooperative Extension employees were given the opportunity to assess the administrative performance of county directors (CDs, directors with academic appointments) and area directors (ADs, directors with 100% administrative appointments). The intent of the survey was to identify AD and CD…

 The UC Sierra Foothill Research and Extension Center is soliciting proposals from April 1 – May 16, 2025, to support new and continuing research on rangeland and oak woodland ecology and management, beef cattle health, production and management, as well as related agricultural and natural resource…

 UC ANR greeted state leaders, elected officials, legislative staffers and members of the public at Ag Day at the Capitol on March 19, a lovely day in Sacramento. “This was quite possibly the busiest Ag Day I’ve ever attended!” said Anne Megaro, director of Government and Community Relations. “We…

 The Regenerative Agriculture Summit, North America in Chicago brought together growers, industry and supply-chain representatives, nonprofit professionals, researchers, educators and other stakeholders from the food and fiber sector to discuss pathways for scaling up regenerative agriculture and…

 Steven V. Swain, UC Cooperative Extension environmental horticulture advisor for Marin and Sonoma counties, died unexpectedly in San Francisco on Feb. 8. He was 58. He earned a bachelor's degree in biology from UC Santa Cruz in 1989 and got his start in commercial arboriculture working with Lewis…