Agriculture

La tecnologa puede ahorrar tiempo a los ganaderos y beneficiar a los animales y tierras Despus que el incendio de Caldor destruyera miles de millas de cercado en su rancho ganadero en el 2021, Leisel Finley y su familia necesitaban reemplazarlo.

Fruit flies are important economic pests, causing millions of dollars in damage, but not many scientists know how to identify them.

Interested in getting the inside scoop on current research relevant to organic growers? Join UC ANR's Small Farms and Urban Agriculture advisors for the 2025 Organic Agriculture Seminar Series for Growers. The virtual, weekly, lunchtime series started January 14 and runs through March 10, 2025.

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Widespread rain, strong winds gusting 30 to 40 miles per hour, dangerous surf, hazardous roads, flood watch, maybe power outages. That's the weather warning tonight.

Claire Tuohey-Mote joined UCANR in January 2025 and is working as a Staff Research Associate with the Small Farms Network. She is based in San Luis Obispo and will be working with small farmers in San Luis Obispo and Santa Barbara Counties.

(Update: Felicity Muth's Feb. 20th presentation is on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5Nv3DMH38s) If you missed the native bee booth in the Academic Surge Building during the 14th annual UC Davis Biodiversity Museum Day on Feb.

Image: "urban farming," by Elizabeth Lloyd on Flickr, CC BY 2.0. Growing food in urban and peri-urban environments has many documented and diverse benefits, including enhancing food sovereignty and building community.

These are hard days for navel oranges. Drought stress. Salt stress due to drought. And no rain this fall. And here comes the big one. This is ripe for navel splitting. This time of year when they are starting to build sugar, they are also ripe for splitting.