Agriculture

Did you celebrate National Public Gardens Day today (Friday, May 11)? Yes? It's always held the Friday before Mother's Day to promote awareness of North America's public gardens. The non-profit American Public Gardens Association of Pennsylvania established the observance in 2009.

UC Riverside nematologist Andreas Westphal hosted lunch for staff and academics at the UC Kearney Agricultural Research and Extension Center May 11 in appreciation for their support. In April, he was awarded tenure.

The strawberry industry ended a long good-bye to methyl bromide in 2016. The fumigant had been used for decades to kill a wide range of soil-borne pathogens, weed seeds and insects, permitting the California strawberry industry to flourish.

Kids and bugs go well together. Take the entries in Today's Youth Building at the 143rd annual Dixon May Fair, which opened Thursday, May 10 and continues through Sunday, May 13.

With warming weather come contemplations of bagrada bug. This is the time in the past when we start to find bagrada bug populations on flourishing shortpod mustard plants or patches of pepperweed in the Salinas Valley.

Jennifer Sowerwine helps restore culturally relevant food systems to immigrant and Native American populations The Karuk Tribe once lived on more than a million acres in remote Northern California.

The Farm Service Agency offices in Klamath, Modoc and Siskiyou counties are planning an informational meeting on Tuesday May 15. The meeting will begin at 10 a.m. at the Merrill Civic Center 365 Front Street, Merrill Oregon.

City Visions: Tech and the future of smart, sustainable farming (KALW), May 7, 2018 Host Ethan Elkind and guests explore the impact of new technologies on our agricultural industry.

How do plants defend themselves from herbivores and turn on their defenses?

Congratulations to community ecologist Louie Yang of the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology, the newly announced recipient of an international award for his outstanding academic advising activities.