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Glenda Humiston to speak on market opportunities for climate smart agriculture The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) today (Jan. 25) announced plenary speakers for the 2022 Agricultural Outlook Forum, themed New Paths to Sustainability and Productivity Growth to be held virtually Feb.

The UC Davis Vector Genetics Laboratory, part of the School of Veterinary Medicine's Department of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology (PMI), has been awarded a $10.

Recent wet weather in many parts of the state has spurred emergence of winter weeds. How these weeds are managed varies by the type of weed and where it's growing. In IPM, identification is always the first step toward effective pest management.

It's 2022 and the California Weed Science Society was back in person at the Hyatt in Sacramento! It was touch and go leading up to the conference, but after it started everything seemed to go off without a hitch. There were lots of good exhibitors and a great lineup of speakers to listen to.

Can you imagine typing a huge grant application on an 132-year-old "type writer?" Make that 986 pages, equal to a four-inch-thick document. No one visiting the Briggs Hall office of UC Davis distinguished professor Bruce Hammock can imagine that, either.

by Melody Kendall This is the first of four articles describing plants and their care featured in the UC Master Gardeners of Napa County's low water, low maintenance area of Las Flores Learning Garden.

Abrir el acceso a vacas muy pesadas, de unas 1,200 libras, a uno de los ecosistemas ms frgiles y biolgicamente ricos de California, parece una forma rara de proteger a las especies en peligro de extincin.

John C. Bruhn, UC Cooperative Extension specialist emeritus, passed away Dec. 18, 2021. He was 81. Bruhn began his 37-year career (1969-2006) as a UCCE dairy food specialist in the Department of Food Science and Technology at UC Davis.

RESCHEDULED 2022 Annual Rice Grower Meetings Sponsored by UC Cooperative Extension -------------- 5 Locations -------------- NEW: Virtual Option WHERE & WHEN Richvale: Monday, March 14, 8:30am, Evangelical Church, 5219 Church St.

Farmers and ranchers are invited on a tour to learn how to use cover crops to build soil health. A full-day tour of several cover crop sites in orchards and annual crop fields in the Sacramento Valley is being offered on March 3 by the Western Cover Crop Council's Southwest Region Committee.