Farmers placed clumps of soil into metal mesh baskets, submerged the baskets into jars of water, then watched to see if their soil held together. The slake test, conducted at the Soil Health Field Day ...

The lively local food and farming community in Modoc County also includes smaller-scale vegetable and fruit farms; the State ...

The Belden Village Apartments in Clairemont Mesa East of San Diego is home to a diverse population of older adults. Shital ...

Both Woodmansee's paper and the new grant are based on more than a decade of surveys and interviews with ranchers and other agriculturalists. That work all points to the economic and social barriers ...

by Becky Wheeler-Dykes, UCCE Glenn Orchard Systems and Weed Ecology Farm Advisor ...

California farmers are at the heart of global food production, but staying ahead requires constant innovation. To meet this challenge, VINE Connect bridges the gap between innovation and application ...

Niño, who holds a doctorate in entomology from The Pennsylvania State University, joined the UC Davis/UC Agriculture and ...

The quince tree ( Cydonia oblonga) is in the rose family along with apples and pears, but is the only member in the Cydonia group. The fruit is tough to cut, and the cut flesh is the color of an apple ...

When UC Davis professor and agricultural entomologist Christian Nansen gives assignments to his students, he expects them to ...

However, because these H-2A workers come at a steep cost to employers, this could mean that several crops with high labor costs may increasingly move production to Mexico in a quest to reduce costs.

This is NOT a conventional spray application and our previous research showed foliar-applied Matrix did not provide much broomrape control. The 24c Matrix chemigation label calls for 1.33 oz of ...

This is the first study to test seaweed on grazing beef cattle in the world. It follows previous studies that showed seaweed cut methane emissions 82% in feedlot cattle and over 50% in dairy cows.