http://ucanr.org/blogs/anrnews/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS%2BFeed The past, present and future of ANR news en-us UC ANR http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/rss/ Fri, 11 May 2012 14:45:26 PST Fri, 11 May 2012 14:45:26 PST UC ANR The Tulare County Board of Supervisors voted to support a bill introduced by Congressman Devin Nunes, R-Tulare, allowing businesses that rent pack mules and horses to operate in Sequoia and Kings Canyon national parks while a new wilderness plan is implemented, according to the Visalia Times-Delta. In 2009 a High Sierra Hikers Association sued the National Park Service for failing to conduct an adequate environmental impact analysis of its wilderness plan. As a result of the suit, a judge...
]]> Fri, 11 May 2012 13:32:59 PST http://ucanr.org/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=7482&utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS%2BFeed jewarnert@ucdavis.edu(Jeannette E. Warnert) http://ucanr.org/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=7482 Mark Gaskell, UC Cooperative Extension advisor in Santa Barbara County, is credited in the Santa Inez Valley Journal for helping a retired couple start a new business. Gaskell is an expert in small-scale farming. The article said Leonard and Nancy Morrell were unsure what to do with their 2.5-acre farm in Solvang after their kids were raised and they retired from their jobs. Leonard read a research paper by Gaskell that suggested the area provided excellent conditions to grow blackberries and...
]]> Thu, 10 May 2012 11:49:13 PST http://ucanr.org/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=7472&utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS%2BFeed jewarnert@ucdavis.edu(Jeannette E. Warnert) http://ucanr.org/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=7472 Construction on the Shippey Educational Center at the UC Hopland Research and Extension Center in Ukiah is in full swing, reported Carole Brodsky in the Ukiah Daily Journal. The lengthy article said ground was broken in October, and the facility is projected to be completed in the fall. "We've been a research and extension center since 1951, but have been primarily focused on research, without a strong extension component," said Hopland director Robert Timm. "Farm advisors in the extension...
]]> Wed, 09 May 2012 08:51:57 PST http://ucanr.org/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=7457&utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS%2BFeed jewarnert@ucdavis.edu(Jeannette E. Warnert) http://ucanr.org/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=7457
]]> Fri, 04 May 2012 08:27:07 PST http://ucanr.org/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=7419&utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS%2BFeed jewarnert@ucdavis.edu(Jeannette E. Warnert) http://ucanr.org/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=7419 Retired University of Nevada Cooperative Extension horticulture advisor Bob Morris is spending a year in Afghanistan to help establish an extension service in the war-torn country, said an article in the Las Vegas Review-Journal. Morris is participating in a program undertaken by a consortium of U.S. universities led by UC Davis. The program, funded with a $14 million grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, aims to help Afghanistan stabilize its agriculture-based economy. "Thirty years...
]]> Thu, 03 May 2012 10:17:36 PST http://ucanr.org/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=7411&utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS%2BFeed jewarnert@ucdavis.edu(Jeannette E. Warnert) http://ucanr.org/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=7411 At a gathering on the west lawn of the state Capitol on Monday, University of California President Mark G. Yudof called the Morrill Act, signed into law by President Abraham Lincoln in 1862, "A catalyst that transformed the United States." The legislation provided federal land to states to build universities that would extend to more Americans educational opportunities in agriculture and the mechanical arts. The act launched the University of California. Los Angeles Times reporter Patt...
]]> Wed, 02 May 2012 14:15:14 PST http://ucanr.org/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=7403&utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS%2BFeed jewarnert@ucdavis.edu(Jeannette E. Warnert) http://ucanr.org/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=7403
]]> Wed, 02 May 2012 09:15:28 PST http://ucanr.org/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=7396&utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS%2BFeed jewarnert@ucdavis.edu(Jeannette E. Warnert) http://ucanr.org/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=7396 UC Berkeley professor of agroecology, College of Natural Resources, Miguel Altieri suggests the university should recognize the potential of urban agriculture to help solve problems of hunger and unemployment. In addition, he said, UC should launch a major research, education and extension program on urban agriculture involving local governments, urban farmers and the whole community in participatory ways, so as to address the real needs of the poor and hungry. These suggestions were made in a...
]]> Tue, 01 May 2012 09:45:55 PST http://ucanr.org/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=7389&utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS%2BFeed jewarnert@ucdavis.edu(Jeannette E. Warnert) http://ucanr.org/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=7389 Winged primrose willow, a weed native to South America, was found last fall in a few Butte County rice fields, alarming agriculture officials about its possible spread to Colusa and Glenn counties, said an article in the Colusa County Sun-Herald. The weed is highly invasive, produces vast quantities of seeds and survives under a wide range of hydrological and climatic conditions. "Farmers have to keep an eye out for this weed, and let us know if they think they have it," said Luis Espino, UC...
]]> Fri, 27 Apr 2012 10:25:27 PST http://ucanr.org/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=7363&utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS%2BFeed jewarnert@ucdavis.edu(Jeannette E. Warnert) http://ucanr.org/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=7363 The case of bovine spongiform encephalopathy discovered in Fresno County is an atypcial varient that happens in cattle similar to sporadic Cruetzfeldt-Jakob, accoring to a report in the Fresno Bee.Jim Sullins, University of California Cooperative Extension advisor and county director in Tulare and Kings counties, told the Bee classical mad cow disease such as the kind found in England in the 1990s causes cattle to stagger and act erratically. By contrast, cattle affected with the atypical form...
]]> Wed, 25 Apr 2012 08:28:48 PST http://ucanr.org/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=7338&utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS%2BFeed jewarnert@ucdavis.edu(Jeannette E. Warnert) http://ucanr.org/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=7338 More than 250 people helped plant trees and other plants in San Bruno on Earth Day to green up a neighborhood charred by a devastating fire a year and a half ago, reported Sergio Quintana on KGO-TV, the ABC affiliate in San Francisco. The planting event was the brainchild of 13-year-old Julien Levy. Through his efforts, the local 4-H Club, a few Boy Scout troops and resident volunteers turned out to plant the trees. "It means, kind of, not only a tree and maybe a source of food and fruit, but...
]]> Wed, 25 Apr 2012 06:48:41 PST http://ucanr.org/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=7335&utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS%2BFeed jewarnert@ucdavis.edu(Jeannette E. Warnert) http://ucanr.org/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=7335 Learning about olive tree pests and diseases brought more than 80 olive growers together on Wednesday (April 18) to participate in the UC Cooperative Extension's Sacramento Valley Olive Day in Corning, reported the Orland Press Register. Bill Krueger, UC Cooperative Extension farm advisor in Glenn County, organized the meeting. He said the annual event provides growers the information they need to be productive and stay competitive. "Things are always changing in the business and this gives...
]]> Mon, 23 Apr 2012 08:58:03 PST http://ucanr.org/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=7318&utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS%2BFeed jewarnert@ucdavis.edu(Jeannette E. Warnert) http://ucanr.org/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=7318 A wave of retirements among the ranks of UC Cooperative Extension advisors and specialists in recent years and in the near future is carrying away decades of institutional and technical knowledge, reported Tim Hearden in Capital Press. "Obviously we are losing a huge amount of knowledge and experience in a very short time," Barbara Allen-Diaz, the UC's vice president for agriculture and natural resources, told the Capital Press in an email. "We are trying as rapidly as possible to ensure...
]]> Fri, 20 Apr 2012 08:40:31 PST http://ucanr.org/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=7306&utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS%2BFeed jewarnert@ucdavis.edu(Jeannette E. Warnert) http://ucanr.org/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=7306 UC President Mark Yudof said UC benefits all Californians, not only the students who attend the universities or the communities where campuses are located, writer Larry Mitchell reported in the Chico Enterprise-Record. "The UC trains doctors at its medical schools, and it provides programs like UC Cooperative Extension, which helps farmers," the story paraphrased Yudof, who was in Chico Tuesday to speak to meetings of the Chico Chamber of Commerce and the Chico Rotary Club. Yudof has been...
]]> Wed, 18 Apr 2012 08:28:20 PST http://ucanr.org/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=7285&utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS%2BFeed jewarnert@ucdavis.edu(Jeannette E. Warnert) http://ucanr.org/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=7285 Douglas M. Main wrote about the detection of huanglongbing disease in Southern California in the New York Times Green Blog.  The greatest immediate threat may be to the homeowners of Los Angeles County, 60 percent of who have a citrus tree in their yard, said Elizabeth Grafton-Cardwell, UC Cooperative Extension specialist and research entomologist in the Department of Entomology at UC Riverside and director of Lindcove Research & Extension Center. The citrus greening bacteria probably...
]]> Tue, 17 Apr 2012 18:42:38 PST http://ucanr.org/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=7283&utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS%2BFeed pam.kanrice@ucanr.edu(Pamela Kan-Rice) http://ucanr.org/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=7283 The California Energy Commission has awarded Biodiesel Industries of Ventura a $2 million grant for research and development of biodiesel fuel, reported Marjorie Hernandez in the Ventura County Star. The company has partnered with Stephen Kaffka, UC Cooperative Extension specialist in the Department of Plant Sciences at UC Davis, who will develop viable biofuel feedstocks at test plots. Kaffka will conduct research to develop viable biofuel feedstocks at test plots at UC Davis and in Salinas,...
]]> Mon, 16 Apr 2012 11:23:18 PST http://ucanr.org/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=7259&utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS%2BFeed pam.kanrice@ucanr.edu(Pamela Kan-Rice) http://ucanr.org/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=7259 The Biodiesel Industries of Ventura was awarded $2 million grant for research and development of biodiesel fuel, according to a report by Marjorie Hernandez of the Ventura County Star. Biodiesel Industries has partnered with Stephen Kaffka, director of the California Biomass Collaborative and UC Cooperative Extension specialist in the Department of Plant Sciences at UC Davis.Kaffka will conduct research to develop viable biofuel feedstocks at test plots at UC Davis and in Salinas, the Imperial...
]]> Mon, 16 Apr 2012 11:12:26 PST http://ucanr.org/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=7265&utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS%2BFeed jouwang@ucdavis.edu(Jenny Wang) http://ucanr.org/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=7265 Michelle Leinfelder-Miles, UC Cooperative Extension advisor in the Delta counties, was featured in the Stockton Record. Leinfelder-Miles, who joined ANR in January, specializes in crops resource management and serves San Joaquin, Sacramento, Yolo, Solano and Contra Costa counties. 
]]> Fri, 13 Apr 2012 15:11:09 PST http://ucanr.org/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=7257&utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS%2BFeed pam.kanrice@ucanr.edu(Pamela Kan-Rice) http://ucanr.org/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=7257
]]> Thu, 05 Apr 2012 16:20:07 PST http://ucanr.org/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=7210&utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS%2BFeed pam.kanrice@ucanr.edu(Pamela Kan-Rice) http://ucanr.org/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=7210 The dreaded Huanglongbing, a devastating citrus disease, was detected in a Los Angeles County neighborhood last week, reported Diana Marcum and Rosanna Xia in the Los Angeles Times. It is the first confirmed case of the disease in California. Asian citrus psyllid, which can spread the bacteria that cause the disease, is already infesting Southern California. Rachael Myrow of the California Report blogged about interviewing Mark Hoddle, UC Cooperative Extension specialist in the Department of...
]]> Wed, 04 Apr 2012 12:16:48 PST http://ucanr.org/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=7200&utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS%2BFeed pam.kanrice@ucanr.edu(Pamela Kan-Rice) http://ucanr.org/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=7200