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Summary of 2013 University of California Statewide Rice Variety Trials...

Meeting announcements: Walnut Day, Wednesday, February 26, 1-4pm, Veterans Memorial Hall, Yuba City Walnut No Pruning/Pruning Comparison Field Meeting, Tuesday, March 4, 10-11:30am, Nickels Soil Lab, Arbuckle Botryosphaeria and Phomopsis canker and blight and their mgmt in walnut Field Meeting, Wedn...

The VICE PRESIDENT of Agriculture and DEAN of the College of Agriculture position opened up at Montana State University. Initial screening of applications will begin immediately and continue until an appointment is made. For full consideration, materials should be provided by FEBRUARY 18, 2014.

One is a renowned bee scientist based in Washington state. One is a noted commercial queen bee breeder in California. One is the head of the beekeeping section, Ministry of Agriculture, Botswana government. And two are beekeepers in Bolivia. Washington, California, Botswana and Bolivia...

Despite the increasing potential for rain this week, California remains poised to experience exceptional drought conditions in 2014. Under prolonged periods of dry weather, weed control is likely to suffer.

A recent visit with Spanish researchers and packers was of interest. Virtually the whole industry uses a snapping method to harvest fruit. It is faster and often leads to fewer fruit rots than with clipping.

How many times have you walked around the University of California, Davis campus on a weekend and wished: "If only those buildings were open--I'd love to see what's inside!" Well, on Saturday, Feb. 8 your wish will come true.

There has been a trend toward open access publishing that has been strengthened recently with a number of coincident efforts, for example Randy Scheckman's Nobel Prize talk, and the UC's Open Access policy for example.

Agriculture is under pressure from regulations, as well as environmental and economic issues. In 2013 there were also widespread labor shortages in the Salinas Valley. These issues put pressure on growers to adapt and resolve each of these problems.

If a picture is worth a thousand words, what is a mural worth? Priceless--if it's a mural of a realistic monarch butterfly, teasing you with a strip of masking tape, a chunk of a child's lined notebook paper, and a stack of rich, textured heritage bricks.