Tina Saitone, a University of California, Davis, professor and Cooperative Extension specialist in livestock and rangeland ...

Urban Agriculture helps foster the development of a sustainable, local, food-growing system and impacts communities in many ways. For more information on food safety, and current laws see the ...

It is my pleasure to formally announce the launch of the new UC ANR Policy Institute. This institute will be transformative in delivering the UC ANR mission by increasing science-based communications ...

When the Bohart Museum of Entomology erected its pop-up tent on the Briggs Hall lawn during the recent campuswide UC Davis Picnic Day, insects popped up. They included walking sticks (stick insects) ...

The University of California, Davis, is enhancing and expanding its Pistachio Breeding Program after a generous gift from philanthropist and pistachio farmer Rod Stiefvater, who is donating more than ...

There she was, a mining bee (genus Andrena) sunning herself on a Passiflora (passionflower vine). She did not notice me. Such a tiny bee, about the size of a grain of rice. It's a solitary ...

The oldest tomatoes have been in ground for more than a month, and planting is progressing rapidly. The warm weather in the past two weeks has pushed thrips population projections forward by a few ...

A recent Nutrition Policy Institute research brief examines key findings from the implementation and impact of California’s School Meals for All program, which provides free meals to all public school ...

Devices called tensiometers are being installed in this walnut orchard in Contra Costa County. The devices will help researchers in the UC Davis Department of Plant Sciences develop more efficient ...

Top, the vacant space before renovation. Middle, spring 2025 in the newly planted meadow. Bottom, Katie Howden's rendition of a mature natural retreat for students at Madera South High School. Before ...

Rachael Callahan, statewide agritourism coordinator for the UC Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Program, recently returned from a trip to Puerto Rico where she and collaborators across ...

In a groundbreaking study published in Science, a research team led by Prof. YE Jian from the Institute of Microbiology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has identified the first mechanism of citrus ...