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April 1, 2019 UC soil physics professors, Teamrat Ghezzehei of UC Merced and Jan Hopmans of UC Davis, along with UCM graduate students Samuel Araya and Jennifer Alvarez, joined CASI's Jeff Mitchell for a visit and research planning meeting at the NRI Project field in Five Points, CA where they are w...

Dear Colleagues: UC is running the biennial Staff Engagement Survey to learn more about non-represented (policy-covered) staff impressions about working at the university.

Thanks to the abundance of rain received this past winter and spring, your landscape may be like mine, flourishing with vegetation that I did not plant.

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Petty Ranch, a story of cover crops in Ventura County. All of the lemon trees were dying. Sigh. Another distressing story about agriculture in the face of climate change, rising land values, difficult economies, and soil degradation.

March 26, 2019 A very good group of folks took part in a lively, engaging and very productive visit to Scott and Brian Park's farm in Meridian, CA on March 26, 2019 to push forward ideas and innovations for equipment to help address challenges of achieving reduced disturbance organic production syst...

Saira Diaz uses her fingers to count the establishments selling fast food and sweets near the South Los Angeles home she shares with her parents and 13-year-old son. There's one, two, three, four, five fast-food restaurants, she says.

The latest newsletter from the UCCE Subtropical Crops Advisors and Specialists is available to read now: http://ceventura.ucanr.edu/newsletters/Topics_in_Subtropics79941.

Advice for the Home Gardener from the Help Desk of the UC Master Gardener Program of Contra Costa County Gardener's Request I've discovered that carpenter bees are nesting in holes they've created in my roof beams. I'd like to get rid of them, but I don't want to harm them when I repair the holes.