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Nearly half of the children born each year in the U.S. rely on WIC to begin life with healthy nutrition.

I am thrilled to announce another monumental milestone to grow UC ANR's Cooperative Extension footprint 48 more CE Advisor positions will be recruited over the next 12 months! Thanks to the increased 2021-22 state funding, the 2021 Call for CE Positions has concluded.

Translating the science of managing HLB Your resource for learning about existing and new tools being developed by researchers to protect and manage citrus from the causative agent of huanglongbing (HLB).

by Mel Kendall How many of you have gone to bed only to kick yourself in the morning when you get up and see a white, icy garden and have to face the frost damage to your plants? Frost does sneak up, that is a given.

Thanks to the generosity of the Hrdy family, we are pleased to announce that four proposals have been selected for funding through The Daniel & Sarah Hrdy Fund for UC Cooperative Extension Research.

Nematodes! The display of nematodes (aka "roundworms") at the 11th annual UC Davis Biodiversity Museum Day, held Sunday, March 6 in the UC Davis Conference Center, drew scores of curious visitors. Many were dog owners with an interest in heartworms.

Dear Members of the Monterey County 4-H Leaders Council, On Tuesday, March 15th, the 4-H Leaders Council will hold its monthly meeting at 7pm. The location will beat 1432 Abbott St, Salinas. All 4-H families are invited to attend and take part in the councils discussion and planning.

Several UC Davis scientists, including Professor Lynn Kimsey, and Extension apiculturist Elina Lastro Nio of the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology, weighed in on "The Plight of the Pollinators," in an informative article by Ula Chrobak in the March edition of UC Davis Magazine, edited...

Every day on my walk I'm seeing more and more people installing the fake green grass. This artificial grass is not environmentally friendly. After 15-20 years, it gets put into the landfill because it is old. There are concerns about toxic runoff from the crumb rubber infill.

LAKE ALFRED, Fla. Sometimes in science, a new perspective brings an a ha! moment. That's what one senior researcher at the University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences believes happened with his latest research on Huanglongbing (HLB), or citrus greening.