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Conservation Agriculture: Article

CIG Project Organic Reduced Disturbance Farmers Phil Foster and Tom Willey Plan 2022 Air Injection Project in Peppers with John Petrosso of Mazzei Injector Company

January 20, 2022
By Jeffrey P Mitchell
January 19, 2022 On a foggy morning at the Santa Ana Ranch of Phil Foster's Pinnacle Organically Grown Produce farm nearHollister, CA, he along with fellowCIG Project farmer, Tom Willey, met with JohnPetrosso, the Sales Engineer forMazzei Injector Company to plan a study aimed at evaluating the effe...
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Entomology & Nematology News: Article

Jan. 26 Seminar Cancelled

January 19, 2022
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
Due to unforeseen circumstances, the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology seminar scheduled for Wednesday, Jan. 26 has been cancelled, announced coordinator Shahid Siddique, assistant professor of nematology.
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This earwig was beneath a garden sculpture in a Vacaville garden. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Ode to an Earwig

January 18, 2022
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
A winter pollinator garden does not buzz with bees; it crawls with earwigs, ants, roly-polys, and other insects. Turn over a rock, a pot, or a garden sculpture and there they are. Well, there one was. An earwig looked up as we lifted a garden sculpture.
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Ranching in the Sierra Foothills: Article

Ranchers Wild Fire Field Day - February 18, 2022

January 18, 2022
By Daniel K Macon
While wildfire has always been a part of our foothill and mountain environments, the scope and intensity of recent fires are well beyond anything most of us have experienced.
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Gwen Erdosh: Entomology Ambassador Extraordinaire

January 17, 2022
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
If you're not big on bugs, you will be--or should be--after seeing UC Davis entomologist Gwen Erdosh's recent interview with reporter Ashley Williams on Good Day Sacramento. Erdosh, 21, an undergraduate entomology major and president of the UC Davis Entomology Club, is passionate about bugs.
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Conservation Agriculture: Article

CASI's Mitchell helps with interview on KVPR's Valley Report - January 14, 2022

January 16, 2022
By Jeffrey P Mitchell
CASI's Mitchell helps with KVPR interview on climate change January 16, 2022 CASI's very own Jeff Mitchell, along with UC ANR colleagues Mae Culumber, George Zhuang, Karl Lund, and Bob Hutmacher, helped with information on their research that is related to climate change in an interview with KVPR re...
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