Agriculture

Did you miss the live Read with a Farmer event? We now have a pre-recorded session available. Brent Ashurst, a local beekeeper, reads The Beeman by Laurie Krebs. Visit our website to view the recording and the supplemental educator's guide. http://ucanr.

by Brad Buck http://blogs.ifas.ufl.

California this year has faced the COVID-19 pandemic, disastrous wildfires, racial unrest, and political strife--a combination resulting in undue stress and overall fatigue.

Have you noticed the surge in small scale farming operations specializing in locally grown and distributed food?

Outsized wildfires, rising sea levels and disappearing glaciers are dramatic signs of climate change, but not the only ones.

or what to do if it just won't rain! Over the last thirty-plus years they've been keeping records at the UC Sierra Foothill Research and Extension Center (SFREC), we've received a germinating rain, on average, around October 21.

Click here to view our latest newsletter (Below is the newsletter at a glance) AG in the Classroom Grant Deadline: Friday, October 30, 2020 Don't forget to submit your grant applications by October 30, 2020. Send all applications to scwills@ucanr.

If you didn't get a chance to listen to Whitney Brim-DeForest's webinar presentation on "Integrated Weed Management Rice Systems" (Part 3 of the UCCE Sutter-Yuba-Colusa Continuing Education Series), here it is: https://www.youtube.

Ben Faber and Brad Hanson This is not good. You find an avocado tree with sun blotch or it is time to thin the orchard and you remove the offending tree. You know that if you don't remove the sucker, you'll end up with some rootstock growth that just gets in the way of the other trees.

Congratulations to the international team of scientists, including UC Davis entomologist and co-author Diane Ullman, on their publication involving the genome analysis of the western flower thrips, an invasive global agricultural pest that feeds on plants and is considered a supervector, spreading p...