- Author: Jeannette E. Warnert
The UC Riverside faculty and staff newsletter Inside UCR includes a feature in the current issue about a long-standing ANR program housed at the Southern California campus, News and Information Outreach in Spanish (NOS).
The article traces the program's journey from its inception in 1981, when radio news stories were sent to California radio stations on gigantic reel-to-reel tapes, through a 27-year-long uninturrupted stream of information from the University to the Spanish-speaking public. The stories are still mailed directly to radio stations, but are also available for
- Author: Jeannette E. Warnert
The current issue of the Almond Board of California's newsletter "The Handle," which is e-mailed to about 100 almond processors monthly, opens with a warm letter from its chief executive officer, Richard Waycott, about UC ANR's new leadership.
The letter says Waycott and ABC's production research head Bob Curtis recently met with ANR vice president Dan Dooley and associate vice president Rick Standiford. Waycott wrote that Dooley wants to position agriculture front and center at the Regents’ table, crafting a long-term plan for
The letter noted that Dooley plans to complement this...
/st1:state>/st1:place>- Author: Jeannette E. Warnert
The UC Cooperative Extension office in Humboldt County, opened on July 1, 1913, was the first in the state, according to a story in yesterday's Eureka Times-Standard. By October of that year, California's first 4-H club was established in Humboldt County.
It seems the county's first farm advisor, Andy Christianson, set the standard of hard work and dedication for his sucessors statewide. The story noted that a local historian came accross Christianson's travel schedule for May 1914.
"Christiansen was scheduled for 16 straight days of travel visiting farms and ranches from Capetown to Garberville to Arcata to Weitchpec and beyond. It appears...
- Author: Jeannette E. Warnert
The Sacramento Bee today ran a story about an ANR decision to close the Genetic Resources Conservation Program, based at UC Davis. Reporter Maddalena Jackson spoke to program director Patrick McGuire and attended a "farewell coffee" last Wednesday to gather information for her story.
Since the GRCP's inception in 1985, the program collected more than a half million plant samples representing some 13,000 species. The collections are repositories for scientists looking to adapt crops to new threats, such as evolving insects and diseases, climate change and drought.
However, the story said that, according to UC...
- Author: Jeannette E. Warnert
The weekly, ag-oriented newspaper, Capital Press, ran a feature in its most recent issue on the new vice president of UC Agriculture and Natural Resources Dan Dooley.
The article said Dooley declined when it was first suggested he interview for the position. But his response changed, according to the article, when he learned UC ANR was changing its approach.
"The department was seeking unconventional candidates who could approach the department's longtime budget difficulties creatively - largely by raising ANR's engagement with the state's growing...