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Dear Colleagues, The Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research (FFAR) is accepting pre-applications for the Seeding Solutions funding opportunity, starting in January 2020. Seeding Solutions Grants are an open call for innovative research projects that support one of FFAR's Challenge Areas.

Keith C. Knapp passed away on Nov. 27, 2019, surrounded by his family and friends, in Riverside. Born in Wichita, Kan, on July 28, 1950, Keith was the first son of William H. and Jane L. Knapp.

James M. Lyons, UC Davis professor emeritus of vegetable crops and founding director of the UC Statewide Integrated Pest Management Program, passed away Nov. 9, 2019. He was 90. Born and raised in Livermore, Jim earned a B.S. in Agricultural Economics at UC Berkeley.

Extra special congratulations are in order for the 2020 Tuleyome graduating class of certified California Naturalists.

I love to plant sunflowers of different types and, at the end of summer, leave the sunflower heads to ripen and feed the birds. The birds make a mess when pulling the seeds out of the sunflower head, but nonetheless, it's quite entertaining to watch.

For the first time since the 1980s, University of California, Davis, researchers have released new varieties of wine grapes. The five new varieties, three red and two white, are highly resistant to Pierce's disease, which costs California grape growers more than $100 million a year.

During the 2018-2019 School Year, the Yuba City Unified school District (YCUSD hereinafter) partnered with the University of California Cooperative Extension's, CalFresh Healthy Living Program (CFHL hereinafter) to implement The Smarter Lunchroom Movement of California in all YCUSD school cafeterias...

Passion fruit is widely grown and valued throughout the tropics and subtropics. Most Passifloras are vines which can climb to 20 or 30 feet. The fruit varies in color from purple to yellow-orange and in shape from an egg to a tennis ball.

John Henry Comstock would be proud. At each annual meeting, the Entomological Society of America (ESA) presents the prestigious John Henry Comstock Graduate Student Award to six outstanding graduate students, one from each branch of the ESA.

The California Dry Bean Advisory Board (CDBAB) is requesting applied research proposals for 2020. This commodity-based research request is sponsored by the CA Dry Bean Marketing Order, under the guidance of the CA Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA).