Agriculture

Hi Fodder Folks! "Precision Agriculture" is a term you've probably heard. You may think of farm mechanization, remote sensing, computers, and maybe even drones when you hear it, and you'd be correct in all of those associations.

Did you miss our Ranching and Range Management in a Drying Climate Workshop?

The global decline of pollinators ought to concern everybody, and everybody ought to get involved, said bee conservation researcher Lynn Dicks of the School of Biological Sciences, University of East Anglia, United Kingdom, in her keynote address at the fourth International Pollinator Conference, he...

Cover crops in avocados.

"If you were a bug, what would you be?" That sign greets visitors to the California State Fair's Insect Pavilion. It's a good conservation starter. The Insect Pavilion showcases insect specimens and insects from the Bohart Museum of Entomology at the University of California, Davis.

Weed control in lettuce and other crops is a key issue this time of year. Purslane is particularly problematic and is adapted to warm conditions and can grow very rapidly especially during July and August. At times growers and PCAs are disappointed with the efficacy of Kerb on this weed.

If you read The Plant Journal today, you may have noticed the exciting research published on nematodes. And it has a University of California, Davis, connection.

DAVIS--Distinguished professor Bruce Hammock of the University of California, Davis, has received a $6 million, eight-year Outstanding Investigator federal grant for his innovative and visionary environmental health research.

Thursday, August 1, 2019 10:00 AM- 12:00 noon (followed by lunch) Colusa Casino Chairman's Room This event is FREE, but you must register. Click HERE to register. Limited to 50 participants, so please enroll early. Seats will be filled on a first-come basis.

An international team of 10 scientists, led by plant nematologist Shahid Siddique, a former research group leader at the University of Bonn, Germany, and now an assistant professor in the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology, has discovered the role of a plant's endodermal barrier system...