Ongoing research

As a (relatively) new livestock and natural resources farm advisor, I'm fortunate to have known and worked with my predecessors (Roger Ingram in Placer-Nevada and Glenn Nader in Sutter-Yuba). I'm also fortunate to be working in a region where I've lived for most of my life.

Generally, fungicides need to be applied preventatively, before infection occurs, to be most effective in controlling diseases.

South American spongeplant (Limnobium laevigatum) is a free-floating, freshwater aquatic plant that has been introduced to the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta. Spongeplant can propagate sexually through seed production and asexually through the development of stolons that produce new plants.

How to use that pickle brine! I read "That Leftover Pickling Brine" at Preserving Food At Home by the National Center for Home Food Preservation (NCHFP), hosted by the University of Georgia.

Are you a rancher who is interested in figuring out ways to reduce costs? Are you thinking about going into the cattle business? Or are you a staff person at an agency that uses livestock grazing as a land management tool, and want to better understand how ranching works?

Dear Colleagues, The National Science Foundation's (NSF) Directorate for Engineering (ENG), in collaboration with its Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) and Geosciences (GEO) Directorates, aims to encourage convergent research that transforms existing capabilities in understandi...

By Faith Kearns Parisa Parsafar is a doctoral candidate in Developmental Psychology at UC Riverside. Her work focuses on how children's experiences and management of negative emotions relate to differences in attention, memory, and learning.

NOTE from the Editor: Sorry this blog is being posted later than anticipated. JB This past month, since early April, the local rose society of which I am a member, began to plan for its annual Rose Show.

Have you ever been on a walk and observed an interesting plant you couldn't identify? Encountered an unusual insect trapped in your home? Have you noticed you used to see certain species in nature that you don't now?

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