Ongoing research

If want to plant a passionflower vine (Passiflora)--the host plant of Gulf Fritillary butterflies (Agraulis vanillae)--in your garden, go for the species that produce lavender or purple flowers, "not the red ones." That's what we've been told for years.

A teen leader involved in the UC Cooperative Extension 4-H program in Santa Clara County was featured in a Google blog and video in honor of National Youth Science Day.

Dear Colleagues, The Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research (FFAR) is expanding and refining the FFAR Challenge Areas for 2019. FFAR funds innovative research to solve food and agriculture's most pressing problems, which are defined by the Challenge Areas.

Dear Colleagues, The California Air Resources Board (CARB) announces the release of the "Draft Final Dairy Research Prospectus to Achieve Senate Bill 1383 Climate Goals" (Prospectus) for a two-week public review period.

One avocado tree, wholesale, recently sold for $92 in South Africa with 250 trees in a bunch costing about $23,000.

Hello 4-H Families, We would like to thank all the families for their hard work at Santa Cruz Fair. We had an amazing fair! Congratulation to all the youth on their accomplishments at fair. We are proud of all of you! We have a teen leadership meeting at 7pm tonight.

A new study on the costs and returns of producing hybrid sunflower seed in the Sacramento Valley has been released by the UC Agriculture and Natural Resources' Agricultural Issues Center for farmers who are considering growing hybrid sunflower seeds.

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Early this week, rain was in the forecast for Bakersfield, the southernmost city in the Great Central Valley, but UC Cooperative Extension farm advisors were unconcerned, reported John Cox in the Bakersfield Californian.

This question actually came up last year at the Vallejo Farmers' Market: Nice couple: We went to Hawaii a couple of weeks ago and bought this plant called an Aloha Lily and brought it home; can you tell us how to care for it? Me: It's a what?