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This is one of a series of stories featuring a sampling of UC ANR academics whose work exemplifies the public value UC ANR brings to California. Farmers are already seeing the effects of warmer winter nights and hotter summer days on their crops.

PVSA stands for the Presidential Volunteer Service Award. This honor was created in 2003 to reward citizens of the US for time they spend volunteering, making a positive impact in their communities, and inspiring others to do the same.

When Glenn McGourty joined UC Cooperative Extension as a plant science advisor in Mendocino County in 1987, he was one of the first farm advisors in the state to have support for organic and sustainable farmers written into his job description.

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...

by Melody Kendall Years before gardening became a priority, I purchased some daylilies on a whim. We had just constructed a retaining wall along the back of our lot and we needed something to fill the new shelf of soil.

Most of us expect that our cows will need some degree of supplementation to carry them through the dry season here on the Central Coast.

There are nearly 2.5 million acres of rangeland in Ventura and Santa Barbara Counties, of which approximately 800,000 are grazed by domestic livestock.

Giulia Marino Giulia Marino was named the UC Cooperative Extension Specialist in Orchard Systems in the Department of Plant Sciences at UC Davis on Jan. 22. She is based at the UC Kearney Research and Extension Center in Parlier.

UC Davis researchers led by molecular geneticist and physiologist Joanna Chiu, vice chair of the Department of Entomology and Nematology, have identified a key driver in how animals sense seasonal changes.

With Corona Virus amongst the community, we are not all able to visit our grandparents, older relatives, or family friends, although it is a time when you may be yearning to be surrounded by others. I am now restricted from visiting my 90 year old grandma.