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  • From left to right: Former UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine researcher Fernanda Ferreira, Fred Rau Dairy manager Shonda Reid and UC Cooperative Extension dairy advisor Daniela Bruno have collaborated on studies of large dairies in California using automatic milking systems. A robot that pushes feed to the cows can be seen in the background. Photo courtesy of Daniela Bruno
    UCCE advisor Bruno guides, learns from dairies switching to milking robots

    Dec 7, 2023

    • Agriculture
    • Food
    • Innovation
  • Fire professionals are gathering in Monterey Dec. 4-8 to discuss new and creative ways to address wildfire-related challenges. File photo by Evett Kilmartin
    More than 800 wildland fire professionals gather for international conference in Monterey

    Dec 1, 2023

    • Environment
    • Innovation
    • Natural Resources
  • Post-doc Hamid Jafarbiglu (center) flies a drone in the field.
    Researchers create app to help drones improve farm efficiency

    Oct 30, 2023

    • Agriculture
    • Food
    • Innovation
  • Atef Swelam stands in a raised-bed wheat field in the Nile Delta of Egypt, where he developed and researched innovative irrigation techniques. Photos courtesy of Atef Swelam
    From Sharqia to Rome to Fresno: Renowned irrigation expert comes to UC ANR

    Oct 26, 2023

    • Agriculture
    • Environment
    • Food
    • Innovation
  • Ethan Rublee of farm-ng demonstrates the Amiga farm robot for students.
    Farm Robotics Challenge launches 2024 college competition

    Sep 28, 2023

    • Agriculture
    • Innovation
  • An unripe (left) and ripe (right) 'Luna UCR' fruit. All photos by Mary Lu Arpaia.
    New avocado proves tasty, safer to harvest at UC ANR Research and Extension Centers

    Aug 29, 2023

    • Agriculture
    • Food
    • Innovation
  • Gabe Youtsey (left), chief innovation officer with UC ANR and founder of The VINE, says that field trials are essential for validating new innovations in the agri-tech sector and a new program from The VINE will help support those endeavors. Photo by Mike Hsu
    The VINE announces call for startups to apply for field-trial support

    Aug 3, 2023

    • Agriculture
    • Economic Development
    • Innovation
  • Brent Hales, center, participated in UC ANR's statewide 2040 strategic vision conference in April in Fresno. Shown here with UC Cooperative Extension specialist Safeeq Khan, left, and Keith Nathaniel, 4-H advisor and UCCE director for Los Angeles County.
    Hales to join UC ANR leadership team

    May 10, 2023

    • Agriculture
    • Economic Development
    • Family
    • Innovation
  • Manpreet Singh
    New UC ANR hires bring expertise in technology, crops, nutrition

    Apr 21, 2023

    • Agriculture
    • Food
    • Innovation
  • To identify market solutions to dairy industry challenges, The VINE and Wageningen Livestock Research - Dairy Campus have released their novel Global Dairy Industry Innovation Assessment Tool.
    Dairy Industry Innovation Assessment Tool identifies most promising solutions

    Apr 20, 2023

    • Innovation
  • Greenhouse IUNU AI Ornamentals
    Growers invited to take indoor farming survey

    Mar 23, 2023

    • Agriculture
    • Environment
    • Food
    • Innovation
  • UC Cooperative Extension specialist Steve Fennimore, left, and Gabe Youtsey of The VINE test drive the Amiga robot.
    UC ANR receives $1 million for VINE Climate Smart Agrifood Innovation Program

    Mar 2, 2023

    • Innovation
  • David Haviland sharing his research at the Argentine Ant and Citrus Pest Management Field Day in Redlands in October 2022. All photos by Saoimanu Sope.
    UCCE researchers target sugar-feeding ants, a key to controlling citrus pests, disease

    Jan 9, 2023

    • Innovation
    • Pest Management
  • The newly released report outlines the need for continued implementation of California's four-part strategy for dairy methane reduction: farm efficiency and herd attrition, methane avoidance (alternative manure management), methane capture and utilization (digesters), and enteric methane reduction. Photo by Elena Zhukova
    Report: California on path to significant dairy methane reduction

    Dec 14, 2022

    • Agriculture
    • Environment
    • Food
    • Innovation
  • One approach to address food insecurity at UC Berkeley is a course on Personal Food Security and Wellness, with a Teaching Kitchen component that brings the lessons to life through knife skills, “no-cook” cooking, microwave cooking and sheet pan meals. Photo by Jim Block
    Teaching Kitchen course helps improve college students’ food security

    Dec 5, 2022

    • Food
    • Health
    • Innovation
  • A new rice crop rotation calculator, available at https://rice-rotation-calculator.ipm.ucanr.edu, helps California farmers determine if the practice makes financial sense for their fields. Photo by Evett Kilmartin
    New tool calculates crop rotation costs, benefits for California rice growers

    Dec 1, 2022

    • Agriculture
    • Food
    • Innovation
  • Steve Fennimore, UC Cooperative Extension weed management specialist, and Gabe Youtsey, chief innovation officer, test drive a farm-ng robot in the expo area of FIRA USA.
    Farm robotics competition challenges students to solve real-world problems

    Nov 9, 2022

    • Agriculture
    • Economic Development
    • Innovation
  • Nearly 1,000 attendees from 26 countries converged in Fresno for the inaugural FIRA - World Ag Robotics Forum to be held in the U.S.
    First FIRA USA Ag Robotics Forum attracts people from around the world

    Nov 7, 2022

    • Agriculture
    • Innovation
  • Although the strawberry industry has lagged behind crops like tomato and wheat on genetic and technical innovation, enhanced plant breeding, gene editing and other techniques are seen as crucial to ensuring strawberry crops are sustainable. Photo by Tetiana Bykovets on Unsplash
    UC Davis awarded grant to advance strawberry breeding, genetic tools

    Oct 21, 2022

    • Agriculture
    • Food
    • Innovation
  • Suzanna Martinez (right), a Nutrition Policy Institute-affiliated researcher, represents UC efforts to reduce hunger in the university system, alongside UC Berkeley Basic Needs Center Fellow Jocelyn Villalobos. Photo courtesy Suzanna Martinez
    Nutrition Policy Institute work underpins historic White House conference

    Oct 17, 2022

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