Ongoing research

There are so many exciting new developments happening in respect to drones within the University of California system it is hard to know where to start.

Back in 2013 we purchased a stunning yellow rose, "Sparkle and Shine," at the UC Davis Rose Weekend. Well, it was a natural thing to do--a honey bee was on it! Honey bees aren't all that attracted to commercial roses, but this one was. Honey bees are still attracted to it.

This is a question I have gotten recently. Should a N topdress be planned or can it be avoided? Research conducted by Bruce Linquist, UCCE Rice Specialist, has shown that a N topdress is unnecessary if an adequate amount of N is applied at planting.

Thanks to Emeritus UCCE Advisor, Maxwell Norton, of Merced County, CASI was invited to prepare an article for the Central Valley Farmland Trust's LEGACY newsletter that has now been printed.

Spanish tomato researchers, Pedro Garcia of Transformaciones Agricolas de Badajoz in Spain, and farmer Francisco Carapeto, along with Westside Equipment's Abraham Quiroga, and Oxnard, CA vegetable crop consultant, Jesus Valencia, visited the longstanding NRI Project conservation agriculture field in...

It's about connecting. It's about learning where parents work and what they do. It's about fun. That's what will happen on Thursday, April 28 during the annual "Take Your Daughters and Sons to Work" day at the University of California, Davis.

We ran the robovator in twin row processing tomato yesterday in the Westside of the San Joaquin Valley (see photo). We conducted intra-row cultivation at up to 5 mph without damage to tomato.

"All human beings are born curious, but the wrong conditions can jeopardize that curiosity," says second-year Ph.D. student Ralph Washington, Jr. of the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology.

This is the abstract and a poster from a presentation that I made at the 2016 Weed Science Society of America meeting in San Juan, PR. The results were generated from one run of each of the experiments.

The University of California Cooperative Extension (UCCE) is recruiting to fill a Livestock and Natural Resources Advisor position for Fresno and Madera counties. Applications are due Sunday, June 12, 2016. These are great positions. Check out the job announcement below.