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News Release March 1, 2018 Salinas, CA USDA's Brennan hosts Fresno State's Shrestha and Brazil's Botelho! Eric Brennan, the well-renowned USDA ARS organic vegetable systems researcher in Salinas, CA provided a simply wonderful and very gracious hosting of Anil Shrestha, also a well-recognized weed e...

Stretching from the Death Valley to Calexico, California's vast dry desert is home to a unique and important agriculture industry. It's a place where summertime temperatures often top the 115-degree mark.

In January, a federal district judge granted an injunction to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's rescission of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program.

Check out the calendar to see what's happening in March in Yolo/Solano/Sacramento Counties. Insectary Cover Crop Field Day Guild Raising Barn Owls and Bats and their Benefits Farm Finance Expo http://ccsmallfarms.ucanr.

UC Agriculture and Natural Resources and the Nutrition Policy Institute are pleased to announce March 5 - 9, 2018, as California's inaugural Food Waste Prevention Week.

Governor Jerry Brown has issued a letter of support and several state agencies have announced the week of March 5-9, 2018 as California's first Food Waste Prevention Week. Happening in March to coincide with National Nutrition Month, partners nationwide are urging everyone to Go Further with Food.

The evolution of herbicide resistance in weeds is an ongoing problem in California agriculture. Resistance to glyphosate has become particularly widespread across the state.

PULLMAN, Wash. Soil pathogen testing - critical to farming, but painstakingly slow and expensive - will soon be done accurately, quickly, inexpensively and onsite, thanks to research that Washington State University scientists plant pathologists are sharing.

Help for the Home Gardener From the Help Desk of the UC Master Gardener Program of Contra Costa County Client's Request: We've recently moved into a new home with several fruit trees in the back garden. I would like some advice on what fertilizer is recommended for them.

Over the past twenty years, the frequency of family dinners has significantly declined even though research has shown that children who share family dinners three or more times per week are less likely to be overweight and more likely to perform better academically, eat healthier foods, and have bet...