From Chilean tidepools to the High Sierra, 12 UC Davis graduate students traveled the world during the summer of 2022 in search of answers to ecology’s most pressing questions.
The annual small grain field day and other field-based activities were cancelled due to COVID-10, so Mark Lundy and colleagues are sharing digital resources related to nitrogen fertilizer management in small grains, small grain variety evaluation, and leaf and canopy meters to measure the N status of crops. Also posted are virtual field tours of small grain variety evaluation plots.
This video features Professors Kent Bradford and Diane Beckles, Research Scientist Roger Chetelat, and Ph.D. student Karin Albornoz from the Department of Plant Sciences, UC Davis, and other plant breeding professionals. They address why breeding and seed production are so important for the vegetable industry.
This video summarizes the production techniques, equipment, and production goals that John and Justin Diener, and Scott Park employ for their organic processing tomato fields. It details the efforts they use to take care of the soil at their farms.
Processing tomato production in California is a major success story with wide-ranging advances in production technologies that have been achieved through innovation in genetics, management, and mechanization during the past century.
This video shows why vegetable transplants are used in vegetable production systems -- by providing a means for early harvests, lowering seed costs, and enabling farmers to gain a competitive advantage over weeds, and avoid costs associated with thinning.
Urban farms are increasing in California, changing food production landscapes, and creating opportunities. This is the first of 26 new videos on vegetable production.
A 26-episode weekly video series will debut Monday, May 13, 2019, on YouTube to help train the next generation of vegetable crop workers and increase their use of effective stewardship practices in vegetable production.
Ken Tate and Valerie Eviner address rangeland management and working landscapes. Finding the best grazing regimen is critical for ecology, and implementing optimum management practices with land managers, ranchers, and policymakers is covered.