Agriculture

Put a bunch of natural historians together with their collections and images and what do you end up with - a collection of all the bee species held by some of the biggest entomology institutions around the United States: https://big-bee.net/#overview https://library.big-bee.net/portal/index.

When Extension apiculturist emeritus Eric Mussen (1945-2022) was cleaning out his office in Briggs Hall, UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology, in the fall of 2021, he gifted me with a framed image of an ancient rock painting from Toghwana Dam, Zimbabwe, southeast Africa.

Where?:UC Kearney Ag Center, Parlier, CA CLICK TO REGISTER The Airblast Sprayer Calibration Training is a 4-hour hands-on sprayer calibration training involving classroom and field exercises.

Assistant professor Cynthia Gleason of the Department of Plant Pathology, Washington State University, Pullman, will speak on "How Do We Help Potato Growers Combat the Root-Knot Nematode Meloidogyne chitwoodi?" at the next UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology seminar.

College students are invited to develop a robot that makes farm work easier while competing for cash prizes and bragging rights in the Farm Robotics Challenge, a three-month robotics development competition running from Feb. 1 to May 13, 2023.

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Samuel Sandoval Sols es un profesionista mexicano quien se uni a UC ANR en septiembre del 2011 y actualmente trabaja como especialista en la administracin de recursos hdricos en Extensin Cooperativa de UC y es adems profesor en UC Davis.

Agriculture and the global food supply is threatened by a range of issues including drought, climate impacts, increasing business costs and labor scarcity. To forge solutions to these issues and more, nearly 1,000 attendees from 26 countries converged in Fresno on Oct.

Pruning is a difficult topic to discuss and describe and to arrive at a consistent approach from year to year. And now Simon Newett, Bridie Carr and Renata Grunennvaldt have put together a survey of what avocado growers worldwide are doing to control vegetative growth.

Cereal rye, triticale and oats are commonly used as cover crops in the Salinas Valley in fall grown (Aug/Sept to Oct/Nov) and overwintered (Oct/Nov to Feb/March) planting slots. A key issue for growers is when to terminate the cover crop.