…dispersed over a five-year period. The cooperative agreement between EPA and UC Davis is intended to advance the development of materials and projects to improve pesticide safety. UC Davis will…
New Online Course on Vertebrate Pest Management Available
…from Dr. Roger Baldwin, a University of California Cooperative Extension Specialist in Human-Wildlife Conflict Resolution. The course, An Integrated Approach to Managing Ground Squirrels and Pocket Gophers, is now available through…
Farm Bureau Extension Continuing Education Series Begins July 15
Farm Bureau Extension’s continuing education series is set to begin this week. There will be four dates over the summer and fall for the virtual series of classes offering continuing…
Partnerships Sought for Restoring Wetland Ecosystems
…Part of the Agricultural Conservation Easement Program, WREP enables collaboration with NRCS through cooperative and partnership agreements. The WREP funding that is being made available is for the Fiscal Year…
Almond Update: Additional Conservation Assistance for Drought Impacted Regions
…drought. CIC is being developed as an extension of the Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP), offering producers another avenue of support for conservation efforts. “Growers might be familiar with the…
MSOB: Biological Protection for Grapevine Trunk Disease
Researchers have found that biological protection against grapevine trunk disease has tremendous potential. Cooperative Extension Specialist and Plant Pathologist in the Department of Plant Pathology at UC Davis, Akif Eskalen…
New Guidelines Available as Winegrape Mechanization Expands
…shift into mechanical pruning,” said Kaan Kurtural, Cooperative Extension specialist with the UC Davis Department of Viticulture and Enology. “We were thinking this would take at least a decade in…
Improving EU Trade Relationship to Benefit U.S. Ag Exporters
…resolution. Under a recent cooperative framework, tariffs for multiple products including agricultural goods are being lifted for a period of five years. “This trade announcement was a step in the…
New Publication Outlines Herbicide Drift Symptoms on Hemp
…are certain unknowns,” said Sarah Light, UC Cooperative Extension Agronomy Advisor. “We conducted this pretty simple project to just demonstrate what certain herbicide drift symptoms would be on hemp plants….
Using AI to Better Understand Grapevine Leafroll and Red Blotch Diseases
…County UC Cooperative Extension. “They have been collecting troves of data from various vineyards and they want to feed that into a supercomputer to see if that computer can identify…
Keeping The Table Olive Industry Alive Through Mechanization
Table olive industry members are looking to keep the crop competitive in California, with a push towards mechanization. Statewide Olive Extension Specialist Louise Ferguson explained that Musco Family Olive has…
New USDA Grant Program to Increase Processing Capacity
…Federal Grant of Inspection under the Federal Meat Inspection Act or the Poultry Products Inspection Act, or to operate under a state’s Cooperative Interstate Shipment program.” USDA is seeking applications…
Industry Survey Looks at The Impact of Wildfire on Grazing Livestock
…“What we wanted to do with this survey is find out from producers what they observed,” said Gabriele Maier, Cooperative Extension Assistant Specialist at UC Davis. “Did they see an…
Almond Update: Growers Sought for Research to Combat Aflatoxins
…by Themis Michailides, Ph.D., a plant pathologist at the UC Davis Kearney Agricultural Research and Extension Center in Parlier. AF36 Prevail is a particular type of mold that does not…