Ongoing research

By Polly Nelson UCCE Master Gardened...

It is important for food-safety reasons to manage rats in school and community gardens. Rats and other wildlife can carry a number of diseases that can be deposited in the form of urine and feces on fruit, vegetables, and in the soil.

Professor Rick Karban of the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology, author of the landmark book, Plant Sensing and Communication (University of Chicago Press), says that plants can eavesdrop, sense danger in the environment, and can distinguish friend from foe.

Hello all, Please find the attached document to provide the previous weeks estimated water use report in terms of evapotranspiration for almonds, peaches, walnuts, established vineyard, alfalfa and pasture in Stanislaus County.

University of California Cooperative Extension Grafted Fresh Market Tomato Field Day Farmington, CA Friday, July 27th, 2018 Corrected date!!!!! view or download the map and details...

Dear members of the Monterey County 4-H Leaders Council, On Tuesday, July 17th, the 4-H Leaders Council will hold its monthly meeting at 7pm. The location will be at the County Agricultural conference room at 1423 Abbott St. in Salinas.

Hello all, Please find the attached document to provide the previous weeks estimated water use report in terms of evapotranspiration for almonds, peaches, walnuts, established vineyard, alfalfa and pasture in Stanislaus County.

What can be said when a friend/neighbor/child/blog/news channel says to, " Go for it!!!!!" A response from the CA Avocado Commission which really wants you to eat as many avocado as you can and want to eat. California Avocado Commission 03 / 30 / 2016 https://www.californiaavocado.

By Jeanne Lawrence, UC Master Gardener of Butte County, July 13, 2018 Summers are getting hotter in much of the U.S., including our local environment. One way to counteract this change in climate is by planting trees to provide more shade in the summer months.

A Fulbright to France... Congratulations to UC Davis entomology professor Diane Ullman who has just a received Fulbright to France to research plant virus-insect interactions. She will be studying plant viruses and the insects that transmit them.