Ongoing research

Open Enrollment has begun! Through 5 p.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 20, you can make changes to your benefits or the family members you enroll just choose your location under "make changes" on the Open Enrollment website.

This year's Alfalfa and Forage Field Day held on September 19, 2018 at the Kearney Agricultural Research and Extension Center in Parlier, CA, was another success. The presentations and handouts from that day are now available on the University of CA Alfalfa and Forages website.

Note: This article first appeared in the October 2018 issue of The New Foothill Rancher and The New Ranch Update newsletters.

Last year, I was looking for opportunities to do something unique and satisfying, yet flexible for my work schedule as a Master Gardener. Dustin Blakey, our trusty Farm Advisor, found me the perfect solution, doing a research study on the cultivation of Devil's Claw, Proboscidea parvifolia.

Here is the November Spirit for your reading.

The UC Agriculture and Natural Resources Agricultural Issues Center (UC ANR) has released a study on the costs and returns of producing sunflowers for hybrid seed in the Sacramento Valley.

ANR academics are invited to apply for Strategic Initiative leader positions, which play key roles in unifying, communicating and advocating to strengthen UC ANR's research and outreach agenda.

Congratulations to community ecologist Rachel Vannette, assistant professor in the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology: she was just selected as one of the 11 campus recipients of a Hellman Fellowship grant.

On Jan. 1, 2018, the legal sale of recreational marijuana commenced in California. This followed the passage of Proposition 64 by California voters on Nov. 8, 2016, which legalized its recreational use by people over the age of 21. However, Prop.

DAVIS--Community ecologist Rachel Vannette, assistant professor, UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology, is one of the 11 campus recipients of this year's Hellman Fellowship grants.