Agriculture

Have you ever seen a bumble bee sleeping? If you slip out to your garden at night or early morning, you might find the male bumble bees asleep in, on or around the flowers. The yellow-faced bumble bee, Bombus vosnesenskii, frequents our pollinator garden in Vacaville, Calif.

In May, I looked at a lima bean field in the Sacramento Valley that showed poor seedling emergence scattered throughout the field (photo 1).

The University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences and Southeast AgNet are partnering to provide the latest news on citrus-related research in a monthly podcast.

Have you seen Lee Allen's article in the Western Farm Press (July 15, 2020) on weed control in tree nut orchards? Here's the link: https://www.farmprogress.

Postdoctoral researchers Amber Crowley-Gall and Marshall McMunn of the Rachel Vannette lab, UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology, have each received a two-year, $165,000 postdoctoral fellowship from the U.S.

By Kate Armstrong in University Kate Armstrong is a communication major working as a fellow in the UC Davis Office of Strategic Communications. Spring Quarter Snapshot Rice Research Continues While much of the world has stopped, the plants keep on growing.

Note: A version of this article originally appeared in the July 2020 edition of my New Foothill Rancher newsletter.

The UCCE Rice Team will be starting a survey of weedy rice across the rice-growing counties in the next week. We are surveying fields that are known to have weedy rice infestations (from reports from the past 3 years).

The road to success is paved with soil microbial communities. And education, curiosity, determination, and collaboration.

In English Un nuevo reporte explora los efectos a largo plazo del COVID-19 en las industrias ganadera, de frutas y verduras, fresas, tomates, nueces y vino del estado. El COVID-19 contina afectando partes de la agricultura de California en diferentes formas.