Agriculture

The list of spring quarter seminars hosted by the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology has been announced by coordinator Shahid Siddique, assistant professor of nematology. The seminars will take place at 4:10 p.m. on Wednesdays, beginning March 30 and continuing through June 1.

Expanded from four chapters in the previous edition to 12, the third edition of Pesticide Safety: A Study Manual for Private Applicators aims to be more than just a study guide.

Maria Ridoutt is the newest member to UC Cooperative Extension. Maria is based out of Kern County and serves Kern, Tulare, and Kings Counties.

Translating the science of managing HLB Your resource for learning about existing and new tools being developed by researchers to protect and manage citrus from the causative agent of huanglongbing (HLB).

Nematodes! The display of nematodes (aka "roundworms") at the 11th annual UC Davis Biodiversity Museum Day, held Sunday, March 6 in the UC Davis Conference Center, drew scores of curious visitors. Many were dog owners with an interest in heartworms.

Several UC Davis scientists, including Professor Lynn Kimsey, and Extension apiculturist Elina Lastro Nio of the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology, weighed in on "The Plight of the Pollinators," in an informative article by Ula Chrobak in the March edition of UC Davis Magazine, edited...

LAKE ALFRED, Fla. Sometimes in science, a new perspective brings an a ha! moment. That's what one senior researcher at the University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences believes happened with his latest research on Huanglongbing (HLB), or citrus greening.

If you missed the Weed Management in Agronomic Crops for a Changing Environment 2021 online event (Nov. 15, 2021 9 AM-12 noon PST), you're in luck. We have the recordings of each presentation here.

UC Davis scientists weighed in on "The Plight of the Pollinators," in an informative article by Ula Chrobak in the March edition of UC Davis Magazine, edited by Jocelyn Anderson.

Over a century of growing cotton in California, scientists and farmers have learned how to better manage soil health. To share their collective knowledge, they have produced a series of videos about cultivating better soil health in cotton fields.