Ongoing research

This year has been the year that we decided to see more of our country. At the beginning of June, we took a very long road trip to South Dakota in order to see Mt. Rushmore and the surrounding wonderful national monuments. It was a very memorable trip for two reasons.

Dear Colleagues, USDA Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) announced that the National Sheep Industry Improvement Center is accepting applications for the 2019 Call for Proposals.

Dear Colleagues, The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), in coordination with the North American Development Bank (NADB), is pleased to announce a Request for Proposals (RFP) for projects in the Arizona/Sonora and California/Baja California border region: Border 2020.

Dear Colleagues: Building on NSF's history of investments in data and computational sciences and USDA/NIFA's history of investments in agricultural science, NSF and USDA/NIFA wish to notify the community of our intention to jointly fund convergent research that combines methods in agricultural, biol...

To reduce the likelihood or severity of fire incidents during extreme weather or potential wildfire conditions, California has approved the Public Safety Power Shutoff Program allowing utility companies to turn off power as a preventive measure.

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Date: July 31, 2019 Place: Wolfskill Experimental Orchards, 4334 Putah Creek, Winters, CA 95694 Tentative Agenda: 9:00-11:00 Prune Breeding Program, Sarah Castro 11::00-11:15 Trichoderma Research Update, Bob Johnson 11:30-12:00 Wolfskill Rootstock Research Update, Kat Jarvis-Shean 12:00-1:00 Lunch 1...

Laurel wilt A threat to California's avocado industry Presented by: California Avocado Society, Inc., California Avocado Commission, University of California Cooperative Extension, and University of Florida's Tropical Research and Education Center.

As some readers of this blog may know, I'm currently working on a research project examining livestock guardian dog behavior. The back story is this: several years ago, I was invited to demonstrate electro-net and livestock guardian dogs at a workshop on livestock protection tools.

If you should walk into the office of Lynn Kimsey, director of the Bohart Museum of Entomology at the University of California, Davis, you may not notice it at first. The desk, yes. The books, yes. The specimens, yes. Wait, what's that protective cover on the microscope? Could it be? It is.