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The belief that an unrivaled record of productivity, deep soils and dry climate mean conservation agriculture doesn't apply in California is flat wrong, said Jeff Mitchell, UC Cooperative Extension specialist in the Department of Plant Sciences at UC Davis.

From the UC Green Blog :: June 5, 2014 :: by Jeannette Warnert One of the worst rangeland weeds in the West is aptly named after a monster in Greek mythology that has writhing snakes instead of hair.

(This article summarizes California Department of Pesticide Regulations online VOC information.) Its that time of year again when hot weather fuels the creation of ground-level ozone, also called smog. High levels of ozone can harm people and crops.

See attached flyer for a University of California Cooperative Extension (UCCE) Field Day at the West Side Research and Extension Center near Five Points, CA.

INTRODUCTION When and how olives are harvested are among the most important factors in both the quantity and quality, and therefore value of processed table olives and olive oil.

The Conservation Agriculture Systems Innovation Center will hold a two-stop field tour of innovative and cost-cutting no-till cotton production systems on Thursday, May 30. The program begins at 9 a.m. in south Dos Palos (Nees Avenue and I-5) and continues at 11 a.m.

What about those Africanized honey bees? Where are they located in California? Hollywood movie refer to them as "killer bees." Ditto, the news media.

A longstanding member of the UC Conservation Agriculture Systems Initiative, Monte Bottens, is featured with his father in the March 2012 issue of No-Till Farmer magazine. Monte and Bob Bottens are a father-son no-till team in Cambridge, Ill.

Collaboration between Partners May Be an Effective Way to Fund Wildland Weed Control Projects Many funding sources for weed eradication have been reduced or completely eliminated.

Californias Conservation Agriculture Systems Institute (CASI) has prepared its survey of tillage management acreage for 2010.