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Planning for the annual Alfalfa & Forage Field Day at the Kearney Ag Center is underway. We are seeking suggestions for topics to include on the agenda. We want to make sure to meet your need for information on subjects related to all aspects of alfalfa and forage production.

The Latino vote will play a significant role in upcoming elections as the Latino population is projected to reach almost a quarter of the total U.S. population by 2040, according to research by UnidosUS and the University of California, Davis, California Civic Engagement Project. During the 2016 U.

School food service is a multibillion dollar industry that impacts the lives of over 30 million (mostly) low-income students.

UC CalFresh Nutrition Education Program has continued its partnership with Madera's Community Action Partnership of Madera County Head Start by providing nutrition lessons.

There is a wild world in those avocado orchards. A study was done locally of some of the carnivores besides humans that show up there. Carnivore Use of Avocado Orchards Across and Agricultural-Wildland Gradient Wide-ranging species cannot persist in reserves alone.

Advice for the Home Gardener from the Help Desk of the UC Master Gardener Program of Contra Costa County Client' Request: Hi! What bug (or other cause) is responsible for my Bright Lights Swiss chard leaves to look dry and brown? (See pictures below) What can I do to fix this?

Rodenticides continue to come under scrutiny in California due to issues surrounding the potential for nontarget injury to wildlife and pets.

Here you go: Mushrooms as spices, able to be powdered and added to food for that mushroom-y umami flavor. Tasty, delicious, fresh 'shrooms are very perishable; commercially dried at the grocery are really expensive. . . What to do? ---Dry your own, I say.

[From the Spring issue of the UC IPM Retail Nursery & Garden Center News and the Pests in the Urban Landscape blog] I hate crabgrass! is a common lament I've heard from residents during my 35 years in UC Weed Science.

Albert O. (Al) Paulus, UC Cooperative Extension specialist emeritus, died on May 23. He was 91 years old. Paulus was hired as an assistant Cooperative Extension agronomist in the Department of Plant Pathology (now Microbiology and Plant Pathology) at UC Riverside in 1954.