Test PB Collection: FTE

Last year, UC ANR trialed a summer fellowship program in collaboration with the Department of Land, Air and Water Resources and the Planetary Health Center of Expertise at UC Davis. As a result, we had about six students doing a summer session with UC Cooperative Extension advisors.

UCCE Agronomy and Weed Science Advisor, Merced and Madera Counties Weeds compete with crops for light, water, and nutrients, which can result in yield reductions.

Tomorrow I head to Imperial County to meet with essential partners from the nearby agriculture institute at the University in Mexicali. The group in Imperial County (both UCCE and DREC) already have strong relationships with the institute; we are considering how these might expand or be formalized.

Molecular geneticist and physiologist Joanna Chiu, associate professor and vice chair of the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology, has been named one of 10 UC Davis Chancellor's Fellows, an honor awarded to associate professors who excel in research and teaching.

One reason to research plants is that they stay put. But more about that later.

Do you like mysteries? You know, those who-done-it books and stories; or do you prefer those mysteries which start with clues where you guess an item or thing from what you're given?

With over 700 participants, 100 volunteers, and 19 organizations involved, the Farm-to-Preschool Festival was a huge success! https://www.thedesertreview.com/agriculture/preschoolers-learn-where-food-comes-from-the-farm-smart-way/article_cbc4dbc6-2229-11e9-a67f-57d21470c5b3.

Over the years of Kerb use in lettuce (more like decades) there has been a lot of work on application methods. Our transplanted lettuce in southern California is usually grown on drip and when possible, we like to apply all things through it.

Cannabis is unlike any other agricultural crop. Because of its circuitous history once illegal to grow, and now legal but heavily regulated cannabis has cast a unique footprint on the environment and the communities of farmers who grow it.

by Penny Pawl, U. C. Master Gardener of Napa County Why do sunflowers follow the sun? This mystery has been researched and hopefully solved. Recently discoveries at U.C. Davis have explained what this movement is and what causes it.