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It's the time of year when gardeners begin planning their summer gardens and starting seeds indoors to get a head start on the growing season. No better time, then, to think about how amazing, enchanting, magical, and mysterious seeds really are. They can be densely nutritious or fatally poisonous.

Geese have been heavily foraging again in small grains and alfalfa fields this winter. Drought conditions led to heavy geese damage to Sacramento Valley fields in 2021. Why are they feeding heavily on crops again this year? Rice plays an important role in providing foraging habitat for geese.

University of California Cooperative Extension has recently expanded their team of fire advisors and staff.

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2023 Rice Production Workshop An in-depth workshop that covers the principles and practices of rice production in California March 15 and 16, 2023 8:30 am - 3:30 pm Lundberg Family Farms 5311 Midway, Richvale, CA 95974 Cost: $200 Program DPR, CCA, and CDFA N management continuing education credits r...

Got a question about ants? Or other insects? By popular demand, ant specialists (myrmecologists) from the Phil Ward lab, UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology, will answer questions at the 12th annual UC Davis Biodiversity Museum Day, set Saturday, Feb. 18.

51st Quad-County Walnut Institute Updated Agenda The 51st Quad-County Walnut Institute will be held on February 28, 2023, at the Robert J. Cabral Agricultural Center in Stockton. The event will run from 7:30 am - 12:00 pm and will cover a variety of topics.

After two years of Covid restrictions, I'm happy to say that I'll be doing our very popular week-long shearing school. The dates are March 20th through 24th, 2023. It will be located once again at the Twinning Barn near Ukiah.

There's still time--and room--to register to attend virtually the New Emeriti Distinguished Lecture on Wednesday, Feb. 15 by UC Davis distinguished professor emeritus Geerat Vermeij, an evolutionary biologist and paleoecologist with the UC Davis Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences.

In between the rain and the cold, UC Davis Distinguished Professor Art Shapiro of the Department of Evolution and Ecology has been searching in vain for the first white cabbage butterfly (Pieris rapae) of the year.