Ongoing research

Dear Colleagues, The Leslie J. Nickels Trust and the Nickels Soils Lab (NSL) requests applications to support research and/or demonstration project proposals.

Dear Colleagues, The Research Committees of the California Pear Advisory Board and Pear Pest Management Research Fund are accepting 2021 applications.

Dear Colleagues, The California Prune Board (CPB) requests new and renewal research applications with a deadline of December 3, 2020.

The Countdown to #Giving Tuesday Is On! Join us on Tuesday, December 1 See attached for more information and link...

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The holidays are here Fodder Family! For those of you who enjoy a living Christmas tree, perhaps you will try a stump cultured tree this year from one of the many foothill Christmas tree farms.

With only a few short weeks between Thanksgiving and Christmas and two very similarly looking plants, you may be wondering whether the gift a loved one gave you for Christmas is a Thanksgiving cactus or a Christmas cactus.

Richard Smith is the UC Cooperative Extension Vegetable Crop Production and Weed Science Advisor for Monterey, Santa Cruz and San Benito counties and Daniel Hasegawa is a USDA ARS Research Entomologist for the Crop Improvement and Protection Research Unit in Salinas, California.

Congratulations to the five UC Davis entomology doctoral students who excelled in the Entomological Society of America's student competitions, part of the organization's Nov. 16-25 virtual meeting.

The UCCE Stanislaus County Master Gardeners are excited to announce we've broken ground on our Learning Landscape. The project will be a combination of demonstration gardens and an outdoor classroom.