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Would you like to be a mentor for a UC Berkeley graduate student interested in gaining experience in Cooperative Extension? The Graduate Students in Extension (GSE) Pilot at UC Berkeley has been extended for one year.

A video game that doubles as a crowd-source solution finder is pursuing a real-life enemy of aflatoxin, a harmful natural substance that can grow on some agricultural crops, reported Kerry Klein on Valley Public Radio.

March 5 - 9, 2018, is California's inaugural Food Waste Prevention Week.

Upcoming Events Treasurer's Mid-Year Meeting State Record Book Contest 4-H Scholarship Siskiyou Golden Fair-Quality Assurance Siskiyou County 4-H Field Day State 4-H Updates...

The UC CalFresh Program brings the Shaping Healthy Choices Program to Madison Elementary in Madera Unified School District. Mrs. Schallberger and her classroom receive intensive weekly lesson demonstrations from their educator, Angelica Perez.

The Landscape Tree workshop is RAIN OR SHINE! Bring your umbrellas and boots.

I'm past the halfway point of my 20-day week now. There's so much information and reflection swirling around in my head that I'm afraid I'm going to lose much of it before I have a chance to fully process it.

Scientists' Newest Tool To Fight Agricultural Toxin: A Video Game (KVPR) Kerry Klein, Feb. 28 It wasn't long after the invention of the internet that scientists discovered the potential for using computing power as a citizen science tool.

The new study Climate Change Trends and Impacts on California Agriculture by UC scientists Tapan Pathak, Mahesh Maskey, Jeffery Dahlberg, Faith Kearns, Khaled Bali and Daniele Zaccaria was published Feb. 26 in the journal Agronomy.

The evolutionary history of honey bees dates back millions and millions of years. Bees are thought to have appeared at least 130 million years ago, according to British biologist Dave Goulson, author of A Sting in the Tale: My Adventures with Bumblebees.