- Author: Jeannette E. Warnert
The Contra Costa County Board of Supervisors will be met by 4-H youth and volunteers at their 9:30 meeting this morning if a call to action issued by UC Cooperative Extension county director Shelly Murdock is followed, according to a story in the Martinez News-Gazette.
According to the article, Murdock wrote the following to 4-H constituents in the county:
“4-H in our county is in imminent danger of being dissolved and we need your help to show your support of the Cooperative Extension Office. Our entire department has been slated for elimination from the county budget. Not next year…this...
- Author: Jeannette E. Warnert
The touching story of Lacey Maddalena appeared in the Sacramento Bee on Saturday in a nicely written article by Chris Bowman about a collaborative project involving UC Cooperative Extension and the UC Davis Humanities Institute.
Passion for the Land is the digital storytelling project designed to help residents of Sierra Valley, a 200-square-mile Plumas County valley at the 5,000-foot elevation, communicate with policymakers, community leaders, and educators about the challenges of sustaining working landscapes, wildlife habitat, and the rural way of life. It is one of the projects that make up the
- Author: Jeannette E. Warnert
The Salinas Californian, a six times weekly newspaper serving the Monterey Peninsula, ran a feature story today about the UC Cooperative Extension 4-H program representative in Monterey County, Wendy Grennan. Almost 18,000 copies of the paper are distributed on weekdays.
The story reads like a brochure for the local 4-H program, noting that Grennan oversees clubs involving 800 youth and 300 adult volunteers in activities that range from animal science and family and consumer science projects to environmental education and plant science.
In addition to explaining 4-H roots in the area - where clubs started forming in the 1890s -...
- Author: Jeannette E. Warnert
Dought continues to be a hot topic. The international news wire Reuters moved a story today about the California drought, which was picked up as far away as New Zealand. The story quoted "state officials" as saying the farming cutbacks because of the drought will cost as many as 95,000 agricultural jobs.
California rainfall and snowfall have been below average for three years, but some people are calling the 2009 crisis a man-made drought because of restrictions on the amount of water that can be pumped from the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta to protect the delta smelt,...
- Author: Jeannette E. Warnert
Ed DePeters, a professor dedicated to educating the next generation of dairy professionals, has received the UC Davis Prize for Undergraduate Teaching and Scholarly Achievement, according to a news release distributed by UC Davis News Service. The honor comes with a $40,000 teaching prize, funded by the UC Davis Foundation.
DePeters’ research, which has been widely applied in the dairy industry, has focused on how the composition of milk, particularly the fatty-acid content, can be modified by changes in the cow’s diet, and how agricultural by-products such as almond hulls and cottonseed can be converted into nutritious feeds. His...
