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Apply Now: Pesticide Safety Educator

December 17, 2019
The UC Statewide IPM Program is hiring a Pesticide Safety Educator to coordinate with UC ANR advisors and specialists, government agencies, professional organizations, and others to plan, develop and deliver local pesticide safety educational programs for fieldworkers, pesticide handlers, pesticide...
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Robert J. Cabral Agricultural Center, San Joaquin County
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SJC and Delta Field Crops Meeting

December 9, 2019
By Michelle M Leinfelder-Miles
UC Cooperative Extension will host the SJC and Delta Field Crops Meeting on Friday, January 10, 2020 from 8:00am to 12:00pm. The meeting location is the Cabral Agricultural Center in Stockton (2101 E. Earhart Ave., Stockton, CA 95206). Coffee and refreshments will be provided.
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A possible climate change outcome in California may be returning farmland to less-intensive uses, such as grazing.
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UC Cooperative Extension ramps up its climate change response

November 22, 2019
While scientific reports continue to mount confirming that global climate change is increasing temperatures, causing more frequent weather extremes and raising the sea level in California, UC Cooperative Extension is working to ensure the worst predictions are avoided and California residents and bu...
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Western bluebird eating a caterpillar pest. (Photo: Glenn Bartley/VIREO)
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How to attract bug-eating birds to farms

November 18, 2019
Hedgerows bordering farmland plantings with native trees, shrubs, bunch grasses and wildflowers support bug-eating birds, which helps with on-farm pest control, according to research by recent UC Davis graduate Sacha Heath and UC Cooperative Extension advisor Rachael Long.
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In memoriam: Marijohn Bledsoe

November 15, 2019
By Pamela S Kan-Rice
Marijohn Bledsoe, a UCCE community education specialist 2 for the UC Master Food Preserver Program, passed away in Modesto on Oct. 31, 2019. She was 46. Bledsoe joined UCCE in the Capital Corridor in 2016.
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ANR in the news October 1-15

November 1, 2019
By Pamela S Kan-Rice
Why we need to treat wildfire as a public health issue in California (The Conversation) Faith Kearns and Max Moritz, Oct 15 As researchers who have worked extensively on fire in California, we believe it is time to treat fires that affect communities as the public health challenge they have become.
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