Plant Disease Diagnosis Plant diseases can cause significant loss of crop yields and quality; identification and management of plant diseases are therefore of paramount importance to small-scale and specialty crops producers.
The Sustainable Agriculture Tool Lending Library is a partnership between the University of California Cooperative Extension (UCCE), organization 2, organization 3, and organization 4 that lends out farming equipment in an effort to diffuse the costs of effective but expensive equipment.
Food Safety for Small Farms Spinach leaf print on agar showing the microbes on a leaf surface Green labeled E. coli on the stomata opening of a spinach leaf Foodborne illness is common, costly, and preventable.
Current Hung Kim Doan is a Small Farms and Specialty Crops Advisor for the University of California, Cooperative Extension and serves the Southern California's Inland Empire, comprised of San Bernardino and Riverside Counties. Hung graduated from the University of California, Davis with a B.
The objectives of this network are to: 1. Develop and facilitate the Hemp Research and Extension Network. 2. Characterize the arthropod (insect and spider) community in California hemp production. 3. Survey CA hemp growers on pest management practices and cost. 4.
"A Budding Problem: Managing Corn Earworm in Commercial Hemp Production" | December 2021 | Entomology Today "Current state of hemp pest management in California" | August 2021 | Adviser Magazine pages 42-44 "First year survey of arthropods in California hemp" | May 2022 | Frontiers "Bee Safe: Botani...
Annemiek Schilder, Ph. D. | Director at UCCE Ventura County and Hansen Agricultural Research and Extension Center Annemiek Schilder is currently the director of UCCE Ventura County and Hansen Agricultural Research and Extension Center in Santa Paula, CA.
