Ongoing research

Integrated pest management (IPM) scientists affiliated with the University of California, Davis and the UC Agriculture and Natural Resources received high accolades at the 9th International IPM Symposium, held March 19-22 in Baltimore.

Mark Lagrimini, our new Vice Provost - Research and Extension, effective June 1, was in town last week. We met for an hour to talk about the position, expectations, and work styles. He also met with Joan Warren to jump start the onboarding process as much as possible.

Although it's not quite time to plant yet, it is definitely time to get your garden plan together. Luckily, your local Master Gardeners have several upcoming events where you can not only learn all about gardening, but can buy all your seedlings as well.

Doing some more weekend reading in "Machine Platform Crowd" the popular and well quoted tract on what we are looking at this second phase of the machine age.

The UCANR IGIS team will hold its next DroneCamp training June 18-21, 2018, at UC San Diego.

Douglas DeWitt McCreary, UC Cooperative Extension natural resources specialist, died on Feb. 15 in Grass Valley. He was 72.

So you're a rural landowner thinking about planting cover crops in your fields or orchards. And/or, you want to learn more about beneficial insects. You're in luck.

A question from a Horticulture Quiz 101 might be, What was the first subsidized agricultural crop in the United States? Possible answers of corn, tobacco, cotton and hemp might be given, none of which is correct.

Shoes with rubber soles, western cottontail rabbits, birds, avocados, oranges, peaches, candy wrappers and fast-food cartons were among the contents that UC Cooperative Extension human-wildlife interactions advisor Niamh Quinn has found inside the stomachs of urban coyotes, reported Louis Sahagun in...

Attached is the April 4-H Spirit. Inside issue are fliers for the following events- MS Bike-a-thon, Bootjack 49ers Club dinner, Junior Livestock day, Record Book workshop, Range Camp.