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UCCE rangeland advisor meets with ranchers in the field to discuss rangeland management decisions.

UCCE to be a leader in climate change awareness and education

February 21, 2018
By Jeannette Warnert
Although individual extreme weather events cannot yet be reliably linked to global climate change, the warming planet may be contributing to recent weather disasters in California. Across the state, 129 million trees died as a result of the drought of 2011-2016, many of them in the Sierra Nevada.
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A young girl searches for bees amid the blossoms of the California native plant, Brandegee's sage (Salvia brandegeei) (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Heaven in the Bee Haven

February 20, 2018
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
It was heaven in the bee haven. As temperatures climbed into the seventies last Saturday, honey bees foraged in the California native plant, Brandegee's sage (Salvia brandegeei). and pollinated the almond blossoms. It seemed like spring.
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ANR Adventures: Article

Keeping it in context

February 20, 2018
By Wendy Powers
I mentioned last week that visits to the counties really help me see successes and challenges in context. Today was full of that sentiment.
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UC Davis student Diego Rivera shows a Madagascar hissing cockroach. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Who Doesn't Love Bugs?

February 20, 2018
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
Raise your hands! How many of you love bugs? If you had asked that question at the Bohart Museum of Entomology open house at the seventh annual Biodiversity Museum Day last Saturday at the University of California, Davis, the Yellow Shirts would have been proud.
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Night Rider camellia. photos by Betty Victor
Under the Solano Sun: Article

Night Rider

February 20, 2018
I have three camellia plants, in my yard. The first one of the three shrubs blooms mid-January. The other two usually late February and March. The early bloomer is Camellia japonica 'Night Rider' just as the name suggests it is a very dark maroon almost black with semi double blossoms.
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Figure 3. Wheat N uptake as a percentage of seasonal total expressed as a function of GDD.
UC Small Grains Blog: Article

Adapting in-season N rates for wheat during a dry year

February 20, 2018
By Mark E Lundy
After almost 6 weeks without a substantial rainstorm, there is finally some precipitation starting to appear in the 10-day forecast for the Sacramento Valley. The lack of rain thus far has made it difficult to proceed with N fertilizer topdress applications in non-irrigated wheat fields this season.
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