Agriculture

When doctoral student Danielle Rutkowski of the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology received the President's Prize in her category for her research presentation at the recent Entomological Society of America (ESA) meeting in Denver, the prize was not only special but so was the photogra...

Working in partnership with CALFIRE Nevada-Yuba-Placer, sheriff's offices, and offices of emergency services in Placer, Nevada, and Yuba Counties, the livestock community established a 3-county Livestock Access Pass program for commercial livestock producers.

Cal OAK Network to build on, grow connections between UC and organic community After pioneering the organic movement in the 1970s, California now leads the nation in number of organic farms, total organic acreage and overall organic crop value.

CDFA's Healthy Soils Program (HSP) and the State Water Efficiency and Enhancement Program (SWEEP) are currently accepting applications! If you are an agricultural operation looking to save water and/or improve your soils then these programs might be for you.

Modern Citrus Cultivars Descriptive Database The Modern Citrus Cultivars Descriptive Database (MCCDD) covers mostly recent and privately controlled varieties, many not yet available for planting and evaluation at the Citrus Variety Collection.

Gabriel Zilnik, a researcher at USDA's Agricultural Research Service, in Wapato, Wash. will be the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology's next speaker. He'll deliver a virtual seminar on "Temperate Tree Fruit and Vegetable Research: Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning" at 4:10 p.m.

It's Veterans' Day, the day we officially salute, honor and commemorate our military veterans. Let's pay special tribute to the servicemen and women who left the family farm to serve in our military. They were the farmers who fed the nation.

If you attended the Entomological Society of America's 2021 meeting last week in Denver, you probably saw a monarch laying eggs. That is, you saw a photograph of a Danaus plexippus ovipositing. The image, by Joe Virbickis of Washington, Ill.

La fresa tiene todo para conquistar paladares, un rojo atractivo, es jugosita, dulce, nutritiva y contiene pocas caloras, de ah que no es de extraar su alta demanda en el mercado. Es uno de los 10 cultivos ms importantes en California y podra seguir conquistando nuevos mercados.

by koestoyo University of Florida researchers publish award-winning findings on orange grove design to produce fruit under HLB FORT PIERCE, Fla. The American Society for Horticultural Science will honor University of Florida scientists for new guidelines citrus growers may apply to their operations.