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From the UC Davis News Service January 21, 2015 Controlling weeds could soon become more effective, affordable and sustainable for vegetable growers in California and beyond, thanks to a system under development at UC Davis that will help plants communicate with a robotic cultivator.

We're still in the throes of January but already UC Davis entomologist Diane Ullman and her colleagues are busily organizing two consecutive mid-May conferences at the Asilomar Conference Center, Pacific Grove.

I recently adventured into science journalism with a piece describing our recent article in PNAS detailing changes in forest structure over the 20th century. I talk about the use of the old data, and what the implications are for these changes.

Sunday, Feb. 8 is a Super Science Day! Visitors to the University of California, Davis campus can visit six museums at the fourth annual Biodiversity Museum Day. It's a week after Super Bowl Sunday, and by then all talk about deflated footballs may have ended.

Great retrospective on 100 years of National Geographic map making. 100 Years of National Geographic Maps: The Art and Science of Where Since 1915, National Geographic cartographers have charted earth, seas, and skies in maps capable of evoking dreams.

The Beer-for-a-Butterfly contest is over. And we have a winner! Drum roll...Art Shapiro...

New Organic Herbicide Registration for California Richard Smith, Farm Advisor University of California Cooperative Extension, Monterey County A new organic herbicide, Suppress, from Westbridge Company is now in the 30-day waiting period with the California Department of Pesticide Registration and sh...

South Sacramento Valley Winter Almond Meeting Stagehands Theater, Colusa County Fairgrounds, Colusa, CA February 5, 2015 8am - 12pm...

Tomato Production Meeting Recap New Position Announced for the Sacramento Valley Notes on Current Wheat Crop Meeting Announcements Crop Pollination Workshop...

CASI farmer members, Michael and Adam Crowell of Turlock, Darrell Cordova of Denair, and Scott Schmidt of Five Points, along with Jeff Mitchell, hosted Amelie Gaudin, the new professor of Agroecology in the Department of Plant Sciences at UC Davis at their farms on January 23, 2015 to share with her...