The new California Farm Demonstration Network was formally launched in an MOU signing in May at Russ Lester’s orchard in Winters, California. The network is a partnership of several groups including the California Farm Bureau Federation, the USDA NRCS, the California Assn. of Resource Conservation Districts, the California Dept. of Food and Agriculture, UC ANR,…
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Climate scientists from three countries have determined that the carbon reduction goals set at the Paris Agreement in 2015 are not feasible. Regardless of whether the U.S. remains part of the Paris climate accord, scientists at the University of California, Davis, are developing additional agricultural methods to offset increases in atmospheric greenhouse gases, thereby reducing…
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Quick summary Only about half of conifer trees regenerated five to seven years after wildfire in sites studied. Study spanned 10 national forests and 4 burned areas in California. Study presents tool to help foresters prioritize which lands to plant after a wildfire. A study spanning 10 national forests and 14 burned areas in California…
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California Rangeland Trust awarded the 2016 Conservation Impact Award to Dr. Kenneth W. Tate, a Cooperative Extension specialist and professor in the Department of Plant Sciences, UC Davis, and with UC ANR. The Rangeland Trust recognized that it’s not only landowners who make significant contributions to the conservation of California Rangelands and created the Conservation…
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Op-ed by Jeff Mitchell and Randy Southard Reprinted from The Sacramento Bee, October 29, 2015 California’s severe drought has focused attention on the critical role that soils have in agriculture and the economy of the Central Valley. Farmers are investigating a range of practices to get more out of every drop of water, including reduced…
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November 2, 2015 University of California, Davis by Ann Filmer If you allowed your lawn to die this summer to save water, now is the time to replace it with water-wise landscape plants, say landscape specialists from the University of California, Davis. Autumn, with its cooler weather and anticipated winter rains, is the best time…
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Improving lettuce crops is the aim of a new, $4.5 million grant, awarded to University of California, Davis, researchers by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture. The five-year, renewable grant is part of USDA’s Specialty Crop Research Initiative funding program, made available through the 2014 Farm Bill. This award is…
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Leslie Roche joined the Department of Plant Sciences at the University of California, Davis, in September as a faculty member. Roche is a UC Cooperative Extension Specialist in Rangeland Management. She earned a Ph.D. in Ecology from UC Davis, and was a USDA-NIFA postdoctoral fellow and project scientist before joining the faculty. Her research and…
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Updates presented at the symposium indicate that livestock grazing is a minimal source of water quality impairment. For two days in March 2015, the “new frontier” of livestock grazing in California was on full display at UC Davis as more than 200 ranchers, researchers, regulators, and others gathered for the third Rustici Rangeland Science Symposium….
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by Pamela Kan-Rice August 10, 2015 re-posted from UC ANR Green Blog Can orchards get credit for storing carbon? A webinar discussing greenhouse gas emissions, carbon sequestration and more is now online. Sonja Brodt, academic coordinator in the UC ANR Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Program, and Elias Marvinney, a graduate student in the UC…
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