Agriculture

La Red de Pequeas Granjas de UC ANR apoya a granjeros a pequea escala y desfavorecidos que han sido impactados por el calor extremo Ruth Dahlquist-Willard, directora interina del Programa de Investigacin y Educacin de Agricultura Sustentable de UC, se uni a ms de cien participantes de todo el pas du...

El primer programa de su tipo en el rea establece una biblioteca de semillas gratuitas y un huerto comunitario Una de las muchas cosas que hace a Extensin Cooperativa de la Universidad de California del condado Imperial nica es su proximidad con la frontera de Estados Unidos y Mxico.

Un da en el campo ofrece ejemplos y consejos para resolver el misterio Un agricultor aplica herbicida a sus plantas de tomate o piensa que la fumigacin de su vecino se est extendiendo por aire a sus almendros. Despus de un corto tiempo, las hojas empiezan a decolorarse o marchitarse.

Fresno County is consistently one of the top producing agricultural counties in California and the United States. In 2023, 62,900 farm operations on 23.8m acres produced a total gross production value of $8.6b. This was an increase of $494m or 6.

Horticulture is the cultivation of plants as ornamentals or for the production of food. When things go wrong (plants grow poorly or not at all), horticulturists sometimes turn to products that can cure, revitalize, invigorate, stimulate or enhance the growth of their plant or crop.

Every winter, millions of migratory birds fly south to warmer locales, passing over California Central Valley dairies and poultry farms. Many of these wild waterfowl are carrying the virus that causes avian influenza, based on the U.S.

It was good to see Sonoma County's "Queen Bee," Ettamarie Peterson of Petaluma, bee honored on the cover of the December edition of Bee Culture magazine. She often submits articles for the magazine. I decided it was time her to be featured and wrote a two-page article, illustrated with six images.

There have been a number of calls about damage to citrus tree trunks. Lemon is especially delicious, it seems.

Farmers placed clumps of soil into metal mesh baskets, submerged the baskets into jars of water, then watched to see if their soil held together. The slake test, conducted at the Soil Health Field Day in Woodland, measured soil health.

En el condado de San Diego existen ms de cinco mil pequeas granjas, pero, de acuerdo con el Censo Agrcola del 2022, menos del 2 por ciento son operadas o pertenecen a una persona negra, indgena o de color incluyendo a los de decendencia asitica, hispana o nativa de Hawi o las Islas del Pacifico.