Jim Farrar

Dr. Jim Farrar is the director of the Statewide Integrated Pest Management Program at University of California. The Program includes ten IPM Cooperative Extension Advisors and five affiliated Cooperative Extension Advisors located throughout the state and a staff of twenty writers, editors, and IT support staff housed in the Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources building in Davis. UC IPM focuses on pragmatic IPM solutions to address important pest issues in agriculture, communities and natural areas in California. Previously Farrar was director of the Western IPM Center and prior to that he was professor of plant pathology in the Department of Plant Science at California State University, Fresno. Farrar’s research at Fresno State primarily focused on fungal diseases of vegetable crops. He completed a masters at University of California-Davis and a doctorate at University of Wisconsin. His publications include scientific papers, extension newsletter articles, and articles in agricultural industry magazines. He was a senior editor for the journal Plant Disease and for the on-line journal Plant Health Progress.