Agriculture

February 3, 2025 The California Chapter of the American Society of Agronomy is holding its 2025 Annual Conference on Thursday, February 6th and Friday, February 7th at the Wyndham Hotel 9000 W Airport Dr, Visalia, CA.

UC Riverside excited to announce that registration is open for the 2025 Citrus Day at UCR on February 20, 2025 from 7:15 to 2:00. We are looking forward to seeing you and sharing the exciting ongoing research in citrus. In additional to a great list of speakers, Dr. Kim Bowman (Univ.

Evaluation Findings Research Brief • February 2025 • Download PDF (270 KB)BackgroundIn 2023, the California Department of Social Services initiated the California EBT Fruit and Vegetable Pilot Project (CF&V), testing a new approach for increasing access to fruits and vegetables (FV) among…

February 1, 2025 A detailed timeline of advances in tillage management in California has been prepared by a large group of CASI partners for possible publication in an upcoming article about the history of conservation agriculture in the state.

You won't want to miss the 14th annual UC Davis Biodiversity Museum Day on Saturday, Feb. 8.

Nematologist Christopher Pagan, who received his doctorate in the fall of 2024 from UC Davis, will deliver his exit seminar on "Soil Nematode Community Analysis: Insights from 28S Metabarcoding" at a seminar hosted by the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology at 4:10 p.m., Monday, Feb.

Dejar atrs su amado Mxico fue una de las decisiones ms difciles que Lupita Quintero tuvo que tomar al mudarse a Watsonville, California. La nostalgia por su tierra natal la acompa durante aos, como un hilo invisible que la conectaba con sus races.

January 23, 2025 Cary Crum, longstanding CASI Workgroup member and consulting agronomist with Agritechnovation, out of Clovis, CA, recently spoke about his observations on increases in cover crop seed sales and acreage in the San Joaquin Valley. The recording is available below.

Checking in at bee hotels: trap-nesting occupancy and fitness of cavity-nesting bees in an urbanised biodiversity hotspot Kit S. Prendergast The design of bee hotels is critical - untreated wood, holes a range of diameters (I suggest 3-10 mm), lengths min 10 cm.

What are the odds? You're participating in a monarch-counting expedition, you photograph an image of a bumble bee with your cell phone, and you win a regional bumble bee contest, a contest you didn't know about at the time.