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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.

Lorrene Ritchie, director and cooperative extension specialist of the UC ANR Nutrition Policy Institute, was quoted in an April 16, 2020 article on YubaNet.com titled "Urban ag supplies fresh fruits and vegetables, part of a healthy diet".

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.

Healthy Soils and Field Crop Meeting Ag Building Meeting Room, 142 Garden Highway, Yuba City Wednesday, February 19, 2020 ~ 8:45am - Noon 8:45 am Coffee and Registration 8:55 am Welcome Sarah Light, UCCE Farm Advisor, Sutter, Yuba, Colusa Counties Healthy Soils 9:00 am CDFA Healthy Soils Program Ove...

Get ready to contribute your iNaturalist observation skills to your local community organizations to help collect data for science! The 2020 City Nature Challenge is April 24-27.