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UC ANR will be making additional travel support available for UC Cooperative Extension specialists to collaborate directly with CE Advisors or REC Directors in FY 2022/23.

It's that time of year again! The dominant variety of apricots, Blenheim, that have a short season here on the Central Coast, have arrived. I used to have a Royal apricot tree in my yard and made delicious jam every year.

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While perusing the UCCE Master Gardener-Solano Facebook Page, I found a captivating photo that Master Gardener Sharon Leos posted. The photo displayed what appeared to be colorful pebbles that were surrounded by tiny rocks, placed neatly in a pot.

Congrats to UC Davis distinguished professor Walter Soares Leal of the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, and a former chair of the Department of Entomology, on his induction as a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI).

A recent paper shows that a food-grade coating can successfully reduce the damage of cherry fruit fly on cherries. This has implications for control of olive fruit fly, spotted-wing drosophila (on blueberry and other bush berries), Mediterranean fruit fly and other tephritid flies.

Dear Colleagues, The California Blueberry Commission (CBC) seeks research proposals from qualified companies and/or individuals to demonstrate their capabilities in conducting research that will ultimately benefit California blueberry growers and processors by increasing the efficiency of blueberry...

Michelle Hammer Coffer, chief business officer for statewide program operations, retired July 1 after serving 26 years with UC. In 2016, she joined UC ANR to provide fiscal, analytical, administrative and policy/procedure support.

This is the 42nd ESRI User Conference yet in some ways it felt like the first. This is the first in-person user conference since the COVID19 outbreak after almost 2 and a half years.

UC Davis distinguished professor Walter Soares Leal of the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology and a former chair of the Department of Entomology, was inducted as a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors (NAI) at a June ceremony in Phoenix, Ariz.