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This last week started with us waking up to learn of the 7.8 magnitude earthquake that rocked Turkey and Syria. Drone footage, satellite imagery, news reports all show the devastation.

I'll bet you did not know that some of your plants have sports. Not the athletic kind, these sports are chance offshoots that are genetically different from the parent plant.

It's beginning to look a lot like...UC Davis Biodiversity Museum Day! The 12th annual event, set Saturday, Feb. 18 on the UC Davis campus, will showcase 11 museums or collections.

Dear Colleagues, NIFA has announced the Children, Youth, and Families at Risk Sustainable Community Projects (CYFAR SCP) funding program to marshal resources of the Land-grant and Cooperative Extension Systems so that, in collaboration with other organizations, they can develop and deliver education...

Doctoral candidate Christine Tabuloc of the laboratory of molecular geneticist and physiologist Joanna Chui, professor and vice chair of the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology, will present her exit seminar at 4:10 p.m., Wednesday, Feb. 15 in 122 Briggs Hall.

CENTRAL COAST WINE GRAPE SEMINAR WHEN: Tuesday, March 7, 2023 WHERE: Monterey County Agricultural Center 1432 Abbott Street, Salinas, CA, 93901 TIME: Registration: 1:00 pm Meeting: 1:30 5:00 pm Agenda Determining Nitrogen Nutritional Requirements of Grapevines - Matthew Fidelibus, Viticulture Spec...

It's the time of year when gardeners begin planning their summer gardens and starting seeds indoors to get a head start on the growing season. No better time, then, to think about how amazing, enchanting, magical, and mysterious seeds really are. They can be densely nutritious or fatally poisonous.

Geese have been heavily foraging again in small grains and alfalfa fields this winter. Drought conditions led to heavy geese damage to Sacramento Valley fields in 2021. Why are they feeding heavily on crops again this year? Rice plays an important role in providing foraging habitat for geese.

University of California Cooperative Extension has recently expanded their team of fire advisors and staff.

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