ANR News Releases

News releases share the latest updates on Extension activities and impact by scientists and staff across UC Agriculture and Natural Resources.

Five people stand around a robot as it moves through a crop field.

Farm Robotics Challenge launches 2024 college competition

September 28, 2023

Registration is now open for college teams competing in the 2024 Farm Robotics Challenge and proposals are due Nov. 15.

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Gabe Youtsey converses while standing next to a robot with agricultural applications

The VINE announces call for startups to apply for field-trial support

August 3, 2023

By Hanif R Houston

The VINE, an initiative by the University of California Agriculture and Natural Resources, is now accepting applications for its VINE Validation of Innovation Program.

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Man wearing ball cap and a jacket works next to a pen holding a cow.

Cattleman’s four decades of UCCE collaborations advance ranching practices

July 27, 2023

By Pamela S Kan-Rice

Siskiyou County rancher Jack Cowley, 91, joyfully recalled the special Christmas gift that delighted his seven children in the 1960s. Cowley, then a practicing eye doctor in Sacramento, and his late wife Barbara surprised the children with a white quarterhorse, which they named Silver.

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Norma De la Vega retires as broadcast communications specialist after 13 years

July 8, 2023

After 13 years of telling the UC ANR story through written articles and video production, Norma De la Vega retired on June 29. De la Vega joined UC ANR's News and Information Outreach in Spanish team in 2009 as a senior writer.

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New UC ANR scientists bring expertise in ag tech as well as crop production

July 7, 2023

By Pamela S Kan-Rice

This spring more scientists joined University of California Agriculture and Natural Resources to share their practical knowledge in counties across the state.

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