Agriculture

As part of DPR's goal to accelerate the transition to safer, more sustainable pest management and fulfill its mission to foster reduced-risk pest management, DPR has funded a project with Wild Farm Alliance (WFA) to provide educational resources for farmers to encourage the use of beneficial birds f...

*Results from March 2023 ISHB Monitors Training* Invasive shothole borers (ISHB) are wood boring beetles that attack many native and non-native trees in Southern California. These beetles bore tunnels into trunks and branches where they grow a fungus they use as food.

Gophers, Ground Squirrels, Rabbits and Voles are going to love irrigated orchards when the hillsides start drying up by UC ANR Staff Writer Burrowing rodents can cause extensive and expensive damage to orchards and crop fields.

[Updated June 9, 2023, to add Guilherme De Moura Araujo to Amiggie advisors.] A robot designed to reduce farmworker injuries and streamline harvest took the top prize in the Farm Robotics Challenge 2023.

Seven entities recently received $21.7 million to conduct research into combating and preventing HLB at the farm level. The funding is from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Institute of Food and Agriculture (USDA NIFA) Emergency Citrus Disease Research and Extension program.

Half the battle in learning and development is knowing what you don't know. I have been collecting a running list of different ag-related tools and technologies that I think growers, managers, and crop consultants could benefit from.

SANTA BARBARA COUNTY CITRUS UPDATES Save the Date! Santa Barbara County Citrus Meeting Thursday, June 15, 9 am - 12 pm, at the County Employee University Building, 267 Camino del Remedio, Santa Barbara Intended for citrus growers, PAC/QAC/QAL/PCA holders, and farm labor contractors in Santa Barbara...

A scientific paper on pesticide-detection research, funded by UC Davis and Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences grants, and authored by 14 scientists, including UC Davis distinguished professor Bruce Hammock, has just been named the Extramural Paper of the Month by the National Institute of Envi...

June 5 to 9, 2023 (12:00 to 1:00 pm each day) - Invasive Species Action Week Lunchtime Talks Invasive species are arriving in California with increasing frequency.

Coming out of 2022, where roughly half of all California rice fields were left fallowed last year, and others may have been fallowed for two seasons, many of us have questions about what weed management will look like in 2023.