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After a two-year hiatus due to COVID-19, the California Department of Food and Agriculture hosted Ag Day at the Capitol in Sacramento on March 23.

UC Vice President for Agriculture and Natural Resources Glenda Humiston led a delegation from California to meet with congressional members and staff on March 6-11 to discuss specific benefits of UC ANR in their districts and the importance of strong federal funding to support programs, including Co...

It sucks sap, it secretes honeydew, and it draws ants. And curious photographers. Last weekend we spotted cottony cushion scale, Icerya purchasi, infesting the twigs and branches of our Nandina (Nandina domestica), planted 22 years ago.

Complete our survey and help us get a better understanding of barriers and motivations associated with cover cropping in California If you are one of the first 200 participants who complete the survey, you will be entered into a drawing to win one of ten $50 gift cards Access to the survey: bit.

UC Davis entomology alumnus Gary Lamberti, professor of aquatic science in the Department of Biological Sciences, University of Notre Dame, and director of the university's Stream and Wetland Ecology Laboratory, is the recipient of a 2022 Society for Freshwater Science (SFS) Career Award for "signif...

Weekly Horticulture Zoom Talks March-April: A Few Things to Do Fireblight Disease of Trees and Shrubs Lawn and Garden Equipment: California's Recent (2021) Law...

Reposted from the UC Riverside news Project examines microbes' role in greenhouse gas emissions Scientists have found microbes living in the charred soil that wildfires leave behind.

Nutrition Policy Institute inaugural director and UC Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources cooperative extension nutrition specialist, Lorrene Ritchie, was featured in the USDA National Institute for Food and Agriculture's Women's History Month spotlight on March 21, 2022.

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Ishai Zeldner, a beekeeper turned businessman, would have been proud. Zeldner, who died in 2018 at age 71, would have been proud to see the family business he founded, Z Specialty Food, develop into a 20,000 square-foot facility at 1221 Harter Way, Woodland. It was his dream.