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UC Davis faculty and friends are remembering internationally recognized medical entomologist Mir Mulla, a UC Riverside distinguished emeritus professor of entomology whose university career spanned 50 years of teaching, research and public service. He died Jan. 29 at his home in Riverside at age 97.

Tobias Oker, our new Soils and Irrigation Advisor...

Soils vary across a landscape according to soil-forming factors present in a particular location. To help those involved in land management and planning, the U.S. Department of Agriculture launched the National Soil Survey in 1899 to systematically map changes in soils across the country.

In the middle of January, the California Weed Science Society celebrated its 75th anniversary with a meeting in Monterey, California. We had a good number of attendees with nearly 550 people registering and attending our conference. There were lots of great presentations made during the sessions.

If you've been frustrated when growing onions because the plants produce flower stalks instead of bulbs, it is time to try again. In our Contra Costa County climate, when onions are started in the fall, it is not unusual for them to flower the following spring.

by Rainer Hoenicke While perusing the aisles at a nursery a few years back, I noticed a two-foot tall honeywort (Cerinthe major purpurescens'), growing in a large container. It was in full bloom in the middle of February when hardly anything else was.

Last week was an exciting week in ANR. We welcomed David Gonzalves as our new Area Director for Monterey, Santa Cruz and San Benito Counties. David has worked for Tuolumne and Merced Counties as well as UC Merced. He brings his agricultural roots and administrative expertise to UC ANR.

Hello lovers of good fire, The CCTREX planning team is excited to announce the Central Coast Prescribed Fire Training Exchange (CalTREX) June 3-10 2023.

In a recent CNN article, Lauren Au, Assistant Professor at the University of California, Davis in the Department of Nutrition and an affiliated researcher with the Nutrition Policy Institute, shared her thoughts on the proposed changes to school nutrition standards.

Procrastination is rarely one's friend, but never is this truer than when dealing with weeds. Some gardeners say, breezily, that a weed is simply a plant in the wrong place. I say that it is something that you didn't plant and don't want.