Farming Content

Big Data Comes to Dinner

Jocelyn C Anderson — April 29, 2024 - 9:01am

Learn how �ٺ��Ƶ leverages artificial intelligence to transform food and agriculture, ensuring sustainability and health from seeds to stomachs.

Parasitic Weeds Threaten Tomato Plants on California Farms

Jocelyn C Anderson — September 26, 2023 - 8:15am

�ٺ��Ƶ leads the way in sustainable agriculture, employing innovative research to combat the invasive broomrape weed threatening California's tomato industry.

Unfold Podcast, Episode 5: Is Rock Dust a Climate Change Solution?

Katherine E Kerlin — October 20, 2020 - 9:00am

Agriculture is responsible for 24 percent of our global greenhouse gas emissions. Despite this, �ٺ��Ƶ researchers say agriculture holds huge potential to be one of the biggest solutions to climate change. Carbon farming may hold the key. The newest episode of Unfold examines how scientists are adding rock dust to crops to see if it can sequester carbon while also increasing yields for farmers.

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Natural Habitat Around Farms a Win for Strawberry Growers, Birds and Consumers

Katherine E Kerlin — March 11, 2020 - 11:08am

Conserving natural habitat around strawberry fields can help protect growers’ yields, their bottom line and the environment with no detectable threat to food safety, indicates a study led by the University of California, Davis.

Using the Sun and Agricultural Waste to Control Pests

Amy M Quinton — January 03, 2019 - 1:56pm

Farmers spend a lot of time and money controlling weeds and other pests, and often have to turn to chemical fumigants to keep the most destructive pests at bay. Farmers also wrestle with what to do with low-value byproducts of crop production, such as skin, seeds and hulls from fruit, vegetable and nut processing.

What if those agricultural waste streams could generate alternatives to chemical fumigants and make farming more productive, profitable and environmentally friendly?

�ٺ��Ƶ Students Breed Beans for Organic Farming

Amy M Quinton — April 11, 2018 - 3:14pm

Breeders at the University of California, Davis, have begun field tests on high-yield, disease-resistant organic bean varieties.

Climate Change and Habitat Conversion Combine to Homogenize Nature

Katherine E Kerlin — August 18, 2017 - 3:51pm

Climate change and habitat conversion to agriculture are working together to homogenize nature, indicates a study in the journal Global Change Biology led by the University of California, Davis.

In other words, the more things change, the more they are the same.

While the individual impacts of climate change and habitat conversion on wildlife are well-recognized, little is known about how species respond to both stressors at once.

California Nitrogen Assessment Shows the State of the Science on Nitrogen Use and Pollution

Katherine E Kerlin — August 09, 2016 - 2:26pm

The California Nitrogen Assessment, a new report from the UC Daivs Agricultural Sustainability Institute, presents a big picture of the scale and impacts of nitrogen in the state.

Seeds of Science

Susanne Rockwell — August 15, 2007 - 9:14am

As the campus nears its 2008–09 centennial celebration, we take a look back at what was happening 100 years ago.

Even before the first buildings were finished — and more than a year before the first students would arrive — the University Farm began laying the groundwork for its first research projects.

UC scientists dug experimental irrigation ditches and planted varieties of wheat, oats, barley and tomatoes. Soon to follow would be test crops of sugar beets, legumes and an array of fruit and almond trees.