- (Public Value) UCANR: Developing a qualified workforce for California
- Author: Sarah L Marsh
- Posted by: Sam Romano
Globally, approximately 570 million small and medium-sized farms need training in various agricultural fields. However, the delivery of agriculture training faces significant challenges. In some areas, the difficulty in obtaining this training has led to people turning to generative artificial intelligence (AI) models such as ChatGPT to ask questions relating to their agricultural production.
The way that ChatGPT and other models work is that the models are trained on vast amounts of data to learn patterns and relationships between words. This enables the models both to understand language in nuanced ways and to generate answers to a wide range of prompts, which means that ChatGPT can become adapted to specific uses and...
- Posted by: Gale Perez
Position title: Assistant Professor of Extension/Assistant Cooperative Extension Specialist in Weed Management in Agronomic Crops
Job #JPF01902
Location: Riverside, CA
APPLICATION WINDOW
Open date: April 17, 2024
Next review date: Wednesday, Jun 12, 2024 at 11:59pm (Pacific Time)
Apply by this date to ensure full consideration by the committee.
Final date:...
- Posted by: Gale Perez
Mark your calendar...
Diagnosing Herbicide Symptoms 2024 link
https://wric.ucdavis.edu/events/diagnosing_herbicide_symptoms_2024.html
Weed Day 2024 link
https://wric.ucdavis.edu/events/weed_day_2024.html
- Author: Thomas J Getts
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Students, it is the time of year to apply for the CWSS Student Scholarship! Awards will be given to both graduate and undergraduate students ranging from $1,000-2,000. Any students interested in Weed Science should apply! Click here to submit an application and for further instruction.
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This year in January at the California Weed Science Society (CWSS) annual conference, we had numerous outstanding students present their...
- Posted by: Gale Perez
Congratulations to UC Davis weed science graduate student Erika Escalona (Fennimore Lab) for winning 1st place in the student poster presentation category at the 2024 California Plant and Soil Conference on Feb. 6-7, 2024 in Fresno, CA.
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Evaluating Bacterial Diversity in Steam Fumigation Treatments in the Salinas Valley's Lettuce Fields
Erika Escalona, University of California, Davis; Steve Fennimore, UC Cooperative Extension, Weed Specialist, Salinas; Department of Plant Sciences, University of California, Davis; J.S. Rachuy, Department of Plant Sciences, UC Davis; Cristina Lazcano, Department of Land, Air and...
