- Author: Jeannette E. Warnert
The headline, a play on the famous orchestral piece "The Flight of the Bumblebee," comes from the Web site tothecenter.com, which carried a rundown this week on the oft-publicized colony collapse disorder, a mysterious ailment that is severely curtailing the country's honey bee population.
The story appears as UC Davis news service distributes a news release about a new $125,000 contribution from Häagen-Dazs to help honey bees. Half of the money will be used to create a one-half acre Honey Bee Haven on the campus, the release says. Häagen-Dazs and UC Davis will determine how the...
- Author: Jeannette E. Warnert
The Daily News of Tehama County covered a UC Cooperative Extension meeting where 130 people attended to "engage in dialogue about the complexities of water resource management." Reporter Ashley Gebb wrote that the event was the second biennial meeting on water resources in Tehama County and the surrounding area.
"We all know water does not abide by political boundaries," Gebb quoted the deputy director of Tehama County Public Works Water Resources, Ernie Ohlin. "Actions and things that we do in our own county can affect people outside our county."
Ohlin told the audience that Northern California farmers and...
- Author: Jeannette E. Warnert
UC Davis plant pathologist Pamela Ronald's flood-tolerant rice is getting publicity in the state's capital, with a detailed and lengthy radio interview on the Capital Public Radio program Insight and in a TV spot on the Sacramento CBS TV affiliate.
Ronald explained to Insight host Jeffrey Callison that flood-tolerant rice was developed over a period of 13 years by isolating a gene from a rice plant that has poor quality grain, but is naturally able to survive two weeks submerged in water.
Using a process called precision breeding, the gene...
- Author: Jeannette E. Warnert
University of California Cooperative Extension covers a lot of ground, but from time to time I'd like to give of glimpse of the diversity of programs offered by sister programs around the country, as portrayed in the news media. Some of the program are familiar, while others haven't been adopted by UCCE.
Nebraska Cooperative Extension is providing divorce care classes, according to The Grand Island Independent. The class for parents in divorcing families began in January 2007 as a requirement by the state Legislature for any parents of children 18 and under who...
- Author: Jeannette E. Warnert
California's white gold, aka "King Cotton," took a significant hit in 2008. According to CDFA, cotton revenue dropped $61.5 million and 48,000 cotton acres were abandoned or went unplanted.
Cotton growers comitted to pressing on attended a recent cotton field day at the UC West Side Research and Extension Center, which was covered by freelance writer Marni Katz for Western Farm Press.
“I know you guys who have survived up to this point are the cream of the crop," the article quoted Ed Barnes, ag research director of Cotton Inc. “You really...
