Agriculture

For the first time, the University of California has hired a Cooperative Extension specialist dedicated to organic agriculture.

Petty Ranch, a story of cover crops in Ventura County. All of the lemon trees were dying. Sigh. Another distressing story about agriculture in the face of climate change, rising land values, difficult economies, and soil degradation.

We are happy to announce that the diamondback moth capture data, presented as maps, is now housed in our own University of California Cooperative Extension Monterey website. To access to these maps, simply click on the link below: http://cemonterey.ucanr.

Postdoctoral fellow Jessica Gillung of Cornell University, who received her doctorate in entomology from UC Davis, is the recipient of the prestigious Marsh Award for Early Career Entomologist, sponsored by the Royal Entomological Society.

Hello, My name is Valerie Perez and I was hired by the Santa Cruz UC Cooperative Extension office as a Community Education Specialist (CES). I recently graduated from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, where I received my bachelors in Agricultural Business.

What's a fair without insects? Entomologists at the University of California, Davis, will share their love of insects with fairgoers at the 144th annual Dixon May Fair, which opened today (Thursday, May 9) and continues through Sunday, May 12.

A 26-episode weekly video series will debut May 13 on YouTube to help train the next generation of vegetable crop workers and increase their use of effective stewardship practices in vegetable production.

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Every spring, there comes a stretch of time when I wish we had 10 times as many sheep. Since we're stocked at a level where we're comfortable we'll have enough grass in bad years (and in the autumn months - see my December 2018 post, Fall Feed...

CropManage Hands-on Workshop Bringing Irrigation and Nutrient Management Decision Support to the Field Date: Wednesday, May 22, 2019 1pm 4:30pm Location: University of California Cooperative Extension 669 County Square Drive, Suite 100, Ventura, CA 93003 Learn how to use CropManage to support irrig...