- Author: Jeannette E. Warnert
The emerging science of agroecology may help scientists find answers to rising challenges facing California agriculture, most immediately the three-year drought, wrote Tom Tomich and Marcia DeLonge in a op-ed published today in the Sacramento Bee. Tomich is the director of the UC Agricultural Sustainability Institute; DeLonge is an agroecologist with the Food and Environment Program at the Union of Concerned Scientists.
The op-ed was published as scientists around the world convene in Sacramento for the Ecological Society of America's annual meeting, where...
- Author: Jeannette E. Warnert
Scientists need more information about how farmers use nitrogen fertilizers before the state imposes new regulations, reported Tim Hearden in Capital Press. Hearden's story was based on a study published in California Agriculture journal.
Nearly 600,000 tons of nitrogen fertilizer is sold in California each year, but sales figures are not an accurate indicator of how it is used.
Imposing regulations without supporting data could fail to address the problem while damaging agriculture, said Tom Tomich, co-author of the study and director of the
- Author: Jeannette E. Warnert
The article was based on press release distributed yesterday by UC Davis.
- 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...