Agriculture

Congratulations to UC Davis distinguished professor Walter Leal, the recipient of the Academic Senate's highly competitive 2024 Distinguished Faculty Research Award. That makes three. Good things come in threes.

El Programa Jardinero Maestro de California en San Diego cumpli 40 aos de existencia, durante los cuales ha sido fiel a su misin de informar a la comunidad a travs de sus voluntarios capacitados sobre horticultura casera y control de plagas con el propsito de mejorar la seguridad alimentaria.

UC IPM online courses are now up and running for the 2024 calendar year.

As some of you know, 2023 was an incredibly difficult year for my family and me. My wife of 33 years, Samia, was diagnosed with an aggressive form of brain cancer last February.

Back in October of 2020, we wrote about the newly published research of an international team of scientists involving the genome analysis of the western flower thrips, an invasive global agricultural pest that feeds on plants and spreads viruses.

Yu-Chen Wang is a UC Cooperative Extension plant pathology advisor serving Santa Cruz, Monterey and San Benito counties. Wang, who joined UC ANR in 2022, studies diseases on vegetable and berry crops.

This is a great article on Stem Nematode management in the West. Stem Nematode has been a severe pest in some years throughout California's Central Valley and high mountain valleys.

Three longtime University of California Cooperative Extension farm advisors were honored by the California Chapter of the American Society of Agronomy. The career achievements of Rachael Long, Shannon Mueller and Richard Smith, all now retired, were recognized by their peers at a ceremony on Feb.

If you're an almond grower, a beekeeper, or someone interested in almond pollination, you'll want to read what a team of six researchers discovered--and maybe share feedback.

El invierno hmedo y El Nio crean condiciones favorables para una infeccin con el patgeno Phytophthora areo Ante los pronsticos de lluvias torrenciales en California, expertos de Extensin Cooperativa de la Universidad de California (UCCE, por sus siglas en ingls) alertan a los productores de almendra...