Agriculture

Effort Will Develop Ways to Minimize Risk from Climate Extremes for Southwest Growers Researchers from the University of California, Davis, have been awarded a $10 million grant by the U.S.

Hey, wait, take me with you! No, leave me alone! Let me go! Have you ever seen insects struggling to free themselves from the reproductive chamber of a milkweed blossom?

New online course on diagnosing herbicide injury now available Petr Kosina, UC Statewide IPM Program A brand-new online course on Diagnosing Herbicide Injury focusing on how an herbicide injury situation can arise, what information can help diagnose symptoms during field investigations, and what too...

Root-inhibiting herbicides (like pendimethalin or trifluralin) are soil-applied and pre-plant incorporated as a standard practice for conventional processing tomatoes in the Sacramento Valley.

Winning an Editors' Choice Award was a milestone for an international research team, including UC Davis entomologist Elvira de Lange. De Lange assembled a project team that wrote a research paper on the agricultural use of drones, published last February in the Journal of Economic Entomology (JEE).

Bonding works both ways... Bonding a livestock guardian dog (LGD) to livestock is a critical first step in using dogs to protect livestock from predators.

A research paper on the agricultural use of drones, co-authored by a four-member international team including UC Davis entomologist Elvira de Lange and published last February in the Journal of Economic Entomology, has won the prestigious 2021 Editors' Choice Award.

The Ag Engineer Advisor will implement an extension education and applied research program to address high needs in relation to integrating and adapting new technologies related to mechanization, automation, and precision farming into Intermountain cropping systems. For more information, click here.

Cover crops, typically planted in early fall, deliver a host of agricultural and conservation benefits. But many growers have gone away from planting them due to technical challenges and extra costs associated with the practice.

He's a giant in his field--a veritable Sequoia in the flatlands. But he's an entomologist with an incredible reach that extends in practically all corners of the insect science world.