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UC ANR's 2020 academic retirees.
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Ten UC Cooperative Extension academics retire July 1

June 22, 2020
Jose Aguiar Rachel Elkins Beth Grafton-Cardwell Allan Fulton Kurt Hembree Anna Martin Glenn McGourty John Roncoroni Rhonda Smith Cheryl Wilen From farm worker to farm advisor - A life of fulfillment Jose Aguiar, who has been working as a vegetable crops small farm advisor for the University of Calif...
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The IT team helped ANR employees get equipment needed to work remotely when the coronavirus pandemic made it inadvisable to work in ANR offices.
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STAR award winners celebrated

June 19, 2020
By Pamela S Kan-Rice
The 2019-2020 winners of UC ANR's Staff Appreciation and Recognition (STAR) Awards were recognized and celebrated on June 18. The awards reward outstanding individual and team performances by staff. Individual Awards Zeva Cho, 4-H Youth Development Program, CE San Mateo/San Francisco.
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Cooperative Extension academics sharing information with farmers at study site, which is a farm with two tractors in the background.
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Unique long-term ANR soil health research being used by farmers for first time

June 2, 2020
By Jeffrey P Mitchell, Sarah E Light
California farmers overall recognize the theoretical benefits that might come from implementing basic soil health management principles, but they lack concrete information and experience on how to actually use these principles at their farms and they also are in general, not currently implementing t...
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Erin DiCaprio, UCCE specialist, answers questions about how to stay safe while shopping for food amid the coronavirus pandemic.
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ANR in the news May 16-31, 2020

May 31, 2020
By Pamela S Kan-Rice
ASEV's Invasive Pest Webinar Series Starts June 3 (Wine Business) May 30 The invasive pest webinar series will include: June 3: Impact of the New Invasive Pest, Spotted Lanternfly, in the Northeastern Vineyards by Heather Leach (The Pennsylvania State University, University Park) at noon 1:00 p.m.
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Figure 1. Pheromone bucket traps catch true armyworm and western yellowstriped armyworm moths.
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Delta Rice Armyworm Monitoring Begins

May 30, 2020
By Michelle M Leinfelder-Miles
Armyworms have long been a pest of rice, but 2015 was an outbreak year, and high populations have continued in subsequent years. We don't really know why this is happening, but it could relate to higher minimum winter temperatures (i.e.
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Late May (post 3)

May 26, 2020
General situation: Things have warmed up recently. Our reference weather station for Merced is running about a week ahead of the last of year and a whole 12 days ahead of the 30-year average for heat accumulation, so far this season.
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Late May (post 3)

May 26, 2020
General situation: Things have warmed up recently. Our reference weather station for Stanislaus is running about a 6 days ahead of the last year and 4 days ahead of the 30-year average for heat accumulation, so far this season.
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