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  • UC Cooperative Extension advisors Kirsten Pearsons (left) and Yu-Chen Wang search ice plants for Western flower thrips, the insect that carries the impatiens necrotic spot virus (INSV). The disease has greatly impacted lettuce growers in the Salinas Valley. Photo by Daniel Hasegawa
    New UCCE advisors bring fresh ideas to protect lettuce from INSV, Pythium wilt

    Feb 3, 2023

    • Agriculture
    • Food
    • Pest Management
  • Fatemeh Khodadadi
    UC ANR expands expertise for climate change, economic development with new hires

    Feb 2, 2023

    • 4-H
    • Agriculture
    • Economic Development
    • Environment
    • Food
    • Health
    • Pest Management
  • Irrigation water may ice some flowers, but help protect flowers in the upper canopy from frost damage. Photo by Allen Vizcarra
    Climate change may reduce frost damage to orchard crops

    Jan 23, 2023

    • Agriculture
  • Adult, male red striped weevil. Photo by John Kabashima
    Invasive pests kill thousands of trees, but scientists see some successes

    Jan 18, 2023

    • Environment
  • Volunteers rate the landscape plants during the Fall Open House at the South Coast Research and Extension Center in August 2022. All photos by Saoimanu Sope.
    Your water-efficient landscape doesn’t have to be barren

    Jan 17, 2023

    • Environment
    • Natural Resources
    • Yard & Garden
  • A mix of yellow mustard, black mustard and canola are grown between rows in an orchard. Photo by SAREP
    Growers invited to see benefits of cover crops in orchards, vineyards

    Jan 13, 2023

    • Agriculture
  • Erik Porse
    Porse named director of California Institute for Water Resources

    Jan 11, 2023

    • Natural Resources
  • ErikPorse
    Porse named director of California Institute for Water Resources

    Jan 11, 2023

  • In addition to a deeper understanding of Native foods and their nutritional properties, young people came away from the summer program with a binder of Native American recipes. Photo by Cailin McLaughlin
    CalFresh Healthy Living, UC helps connect Native youth with Native foods

    Jan 10, 2023

    • Family
    • Food
    • Health
  • 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
  • Dylan Shelden (left) and Brent Flory (center) packing seedling trays at the South Coast Research and Extension Center in Irvine. Photo courtesy Esperanza Education Center.
    South Coast REC supports school-to-work pipeline for students with disabilities

    Jan 9, 2023

    • Agriculture
    • Economic Development
  • Steve Quarles, UC Cooperative Extension advisor emeritus, looks at a garage attached to an older house in Paradise where the radiant heat from a nearby fence and line of planted vegetation ignited and were sufficiently hot enough to break the single pane glass. Photo by Yana Valachovic
    Can homes be designed to withstand wildfire?

    Dec 21, 2022

    • Environment
  • A new study of farmworkers’ general health examined factors contributing to their illness and disease, such as inadequate access to health care.
    Farmworkers at risk for obesity, high blood pressure, say UC researchers

    Dec 19, 2022

    • Health
  • With nearly 520,000 acres planted in California in 2021, pistachios are the fastest-growing tree nut crop in the state. California dominates the pistachio industry, growing 99 percent of the nation's crop and nearly 60 percent of the world's crop. Photo by Evett Kilmartin
    NIFA funds $3.8 million project to find climate-resilient pistachio trees

    Dec 16, 2022

    • Agriculture
    • Food
  • 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
  • Refrigerator temperature ranges: what's safe and what's not safe?
    Hotel refrigerators vary in temperature

    Dec 12, 2022

    • Food
  • Janet Hartin presents her research at the Lead With Trees conference in Palm Springs.
    Now is the time to plant climate-ready trees, says UCCE researcher

    Dec 6, 2022

  • 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
  • California Healthy Soils Week highlights the benefits of soil health and biodiversity. Photo by Larry Costello
    Celebrate Healthy Soils Week with free events Dec. 5-9

    Dec 2, 2022

    • Environment
  • 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

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