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This piece appears elsewhere on the UC ANR website and was written by: Lisa Blecker, coordinator for the UC Pesticide Safety Education Program and Office of Pesticide Information and Coordination Whitney Brim-DeForest, UC Cooperative Extension rice advisor in Sutter and Yuba counties.

While most Californians are staying home to slow the spread of the novel coronavirus, California farmers, farmworkers and other agricultural professionals are out in the fields and packing houses working to produce food.

PPE in short supply for farm work during the COVID-19 crisis While most Californians are staying home to slow the spread of the novel coronavirus, California farmers, farmworkers and other agricultural professionals are out in the fields and packing houses working to produce food.

If you're like me, you were probably surprised to look at the calendar this morning and realize that irrigation season begins in here in the Sierra foothills this week.

As Californians stay home to avoid the new coronavirus COVID-19, UC Agriculture and Natural Resources is working differently to continue delivering research-based information to Californians across the state.

Here's Whitney Brim-DeForest, UC Cooperative Extension Rice Advisor, on the Out of the Blank podcast: Click here >> PODCAST From the Out of the Blank channel...

As I write this post on the morning of March 19, 2020, several of the counties surrounding Placer County, where I live, work, and ranch, have issued "shelter in place" orders in an effort to limit the spread of COVID-19.

I've kept daily weather records since we moved to Auburn (nineteen years this week, in fact).

Tuesday, March 31, 2020, 8:15 a.m. 10:30 a.m. Intersection of County Rd 86 and County Rd 14, Esparto, CA GPS: 38.788309, -122.022779 Registration (not required, but helpful for us): http://ucanr.edu/survey/survey.cfm?surveynumber=29662 8:15 a.m. Registration, light refreshments 8:25 a.m.

Is your tree on death's door? Here's how to tell (LA Times) Jeanette Marantos, Feb. 28 Climate change, invasive species and even international trade are taking a serious toll on California trees.