- Author: Jeannette E. Warnert
Yolo County supervisors participated in a workshop Tuesday focused on the county's mission to preserve land for agricultural uses, wrote Katherine Jarvis in the Daily Democrat.
The workshop included testimony from agricultural experts, county representatives and the public.
UC Cooperative Extension specialist Louise Jackson of the UC Davis Department of Land, Air and Water Resources testified at the workshop about the importance of preserving Yolo County ag land in light of climate change.
"Climate change is more than just uncertainty about what will happen to crops," she said.
While agriculture...
- Author: Jeannette E. Warnert
When the earth is passed on to the next generation, will those who last inhabited the space do so with any regrets? This grand question was asked by the director of UC's Agricultural Sustainability Institute, Tom Tomich, in an op-ed piece published in yesterday's Huffington Post.
Leaving with "no regrets," he wrote, goes beyond cloth grocery bags and compact fluorescent light bulbs. And for the ag community, "no regrets" strategies are particularly important.
"Agriculture is the largest industry in California and is among...