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Unify-Communicate-Advocate The UC ANR Strategic Initiatives offer a home for strategic thought - drawing on members of the wider UC ANR community and beyond to 1) help people connect and 2) to help them identify and address issues of current and emerging importance.

If you've been following our effort to demonstrate techniques for bonding livestock guardian dogs (LGDs) with cattle (either on this blog or through my @flyingmulefarm Twitter or Facebook accounts), you'll know that Sam the LGD pup got off to a great start on large cattle operation in Modoc County i...

Please see the attached PDF for information on a meeting going over aflatoxin contamination in pistachio and the 2022 principles in fruit and nut tree growth, production, and maintenance course.

Have you heard of SB 1383? If you haven't, you probably will soon because the regulations just took effect on January 1, 2022. I learned about this law through my involvement in community composting and collaboration with the City of Rancho Cucamonga Environmental Programs.

How little we know about monarch butterflies, Danaus plexippus... And how long misinformation can linger...

UC ANR is launching a photography contest and calling all staff and academics to submit their best shots. The contest will give us a chance to see scenes from different parts of our beautiful state, said vice provost Mark Bell.

Schools are an ideal setting for policy, systems, and environmental (PSE) approaches to childhood obesity prevention.

Hello, Please see the attached flyer about "EXPANDING MARKET OPPORTUNITIES FOR MEAT PROCESSING" forum on January 27, 2022 @1:00-2:00pm EST.

By Yvonne Rasmussen, UC Master Gardener of Napa County What's this weird thing growing in my yard? Is it dangerous, poisonous, or killing my plants? How can I get rid of it?

Dear Colleagues, CAL FIRE's Wood Products and Bioenergy Program is seeking projects that support the creation of a robust and diversified wood products market to help meet California's forest resilience goals.