Agriculture

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In the small town of Buga, located in Valle del Cauca in southwestern Colombia, Jairo Diaz-Ramirez prioritized salsa dancing over his studies. His parents, noticing that he was having too much fun on weekends, reminded Diaz that schoolwork comes first.

An insect carrying the huanglongbing bacteria, a pathogen that kills citrus trees, has been found on a residential citrus tree in Ventura County, according to the California Citrus Pest & Disease Prevention Program.

Noted pollination ecologist Neal Williams, professor in the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology and a 2015-2020 Chancellor's Fellow, recently discussed native bees on the international podcast, Science Friday, with host and executive producer Ira Flatow.

This is a call to prepare for pest invasions with an eye to proactive biocontrol written by Mark Hoddle in a recently published article in the journal BioControl: https://link.springer.com/article/10.

(Este post est disponible en espaol) In early September 2023, nearly the entire growing area around the city of Brentwood was put under a quarantine by the California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA) (see current included area).

The Russian invasion of Ukraine in early 2022 caused wheat and corn prices to spike 30% and 13%, respectively, and threatened a worldwide food crisis.

The UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology's fall seminars will begin Monday, Oct. 2 and continue through Monday, Dec. 4, announced coordinator Brian Johnson, associate professor of entomology and honey bee scientist. All seminars will be in-person and will take place on Mondays at 4:10 p.

With the McKinney Fire creeping closer to Yreka in the summer of 2022, Emily Jackson and her mother potentially faced the enormous task of getting all their goats, chickens, dogs and cats to safety while Emily's father and twin sister Lindsay were away fighting the fires.

To achieve groundwater sustainability under California's Sustainable Groundwater Management Act, or SGMA, demand management policies that encourage water conservation will be necessary, says Ellen Bruno, University of California Cooperative Extension specialist in quantitative policy analysis at U...