Ongoing research

On April 13, 2019, 28 4-H members and volunteers from Sonoma, Marin, Napa and Alameda counties convened with Cooperative Extension staff at the Las Posadas 4-H Camp for the 2019 4-H Environmental Science Institute.

The deadly thousand cankers disease, an emerging insect-fungus complex, has caused profound damage to black walnut trees not only in urban areas of California and other western states, but in Pennsylvania, Tennessee and Virginia, according to a newly published review by UC Davis-affiliated scientist...

Solar panels at UC Merced's Science and Engineering building.

Introducing Your New Information Source for CDFA grants, Kern and Ventura Counties Spotlight on SWEEP in Citrus Low Pressure Guide to Low-Flow Irrigation Scheduling The So-Called Leaf Fleck Virus Diseases of Citrus Replanting Trees in Mature Citrus Groves What About Planting Lemons in Kern County?

Have you ever seen the larva of a lady beetle (aka ladybug) dining on an aphid? Lights! Camera! Action! So here is this charming little immature lady beetle chowing down on an oleander aphid that has the audacity to infest the milkweed in our pollinator garden.

I am in Chicago at a Multi-state Regional project meeting. I was a member of this project for 19 years and am now the Administrative Advisor. One of the members commented yesterday that some days drag on forever; I have not experienced this over the last three years.

In April 2018, EFNEP and UC CalFresh in the Butte Cluster began their partnership with the Sutter County Superintendent of Schools to offer nutrition education and food resource management courses to individuals who are working towards earning their GED in Sutter County's English as a Second Languag...

The fairly heavy rains over the past weekend (1.06" from CIMIS station #111 in Watsonville), have given people concern about what sort of damage our strawberry crop has sustained.

Students participating in the Lakeside Elementary After School Program had a fun filed afternoon of organized games from the CATCH activity box.

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