San Joaquin

With the majority of fall-planted California small grain crops reaching grain ripening stages and annual precipitation mostly finished, let's review 2017-18 seasonal weather patterns across the small grain regions of the state and at the UC small grain testing sites.

May 4, 2018 Geoff Koch, a brand new PhD student in the Department of Soils and Biogeochemistry at the University of California, Davis, working with soil scientist, Will Horwath, and CASI Cooperative Extension partners, Jeff Mitchell and Dan Munk, began his research project in earnest this week with...

Bojuwon named NFCS advisor for Kern County Hawau Bojuwon joined UC ANR on March 26, 2018, as a UCCE area nutrition, family and consumer sciences advisor in Kern County.

Water hyacinth (Eichhornia crassipes (Mart.) Solms)) is a perennial free-floating aquatic plant species native to the Amazon region of South America. It has become invasive around the world, including the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta in central California.

As sorghum plants cope with drought conditions, the plants' roots and adjoining microbial communities are communicating in a chemical language that appears to improve the plants' chances under water stress. It's amazing, said Peggy Lemaux, UC Cooperative Extension specialist.

Wendy Powers, associate vice president, announced the 2018 winners of the biennial Distinguished Service Awards on April 11 at the UC ANR Statewide Conference in Ontario.

In English Con el fin de ayudar a los productores de uva a tomar la decisin sobre cules variedades deben cultivar, el Centro sobre Asuntos Agrcolas de la Divisin de Agricultura y Recursos Naturales de UC public cuatro estudios nuevos sobre los costos y produccin de las uvas de mesa en el sur del Val...

The San Joaquin County Fair is holding a coloring contest for their 2018 fair program cover! All are welcome to submit entries using the design below: Hardcopies of the design are available at the County 4-H Office (2101 E. Earhart Ave.

April 18, 2018 Seven UC ANR Advisors along with UCD professor, Will Horwath, and CE Specialist Jeff Mitchell, have been awarded two new projects by CDFA's Healthy Soils Program.

Southern San Joaquin Valley rangeland owners and land managers are invited to an upcoming weed management workshop in Tulare on Tuesday, May 1, 2018. Online registration and agenda information is available at: http://ucanr.