Kearney Research News is a quarterly newsletter with updates about activities and research at the Kearney Agricultural Research and Extension Center. To contribute email jewarnert@ucdavis.edu
KARE Newsletter November 2017
Nov 20, 2017
Inside this issue:
- Helping honey bees
- CDPR approved online CEU classes
- Malcolm Media Expos
- Central Valley Air Summit
- Giving Tuesday
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KARE Newsletter August 2017
Aug 23, 2017
In this issue:
- UC Kearney grape day
- UCCE IPM advisor Pete Goodell retires
- Irrigation research information shared
- Pollinator week
- Soil management training
- California farm demonstration collaboration
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KARE Newsletter May 2017
Aug 23, 2017
In this issue:
- Sprayer calibration and coverage training
- Ag Ventures Day in Tulare
- Drone workshops
- 6400 3rd-grade students from 70 schools transplant leaf lettuce
- National poison prevention week
- Drones used to collect research data
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KARE Newsletter March 2017
Aug 23, 2017
Inside this issue:
- National invasive awareness week
- UC ANR participated in the World Ag Expo
- UC IPM academic coordinator at Kearney
- South San Joaquin Region invasive Aedes workshop
- New Worker Protection Standard training
- Interest in 50-year old tea plants at Kearney
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KARE Newsletter November 2016
Nov 3, 2016
In this issue
- Retirements
- Parlier students explore applied research careers
- Pourreza wins international prize
- New online UC IPM course provides 2 CEU in laws and regs
- Changes to the Agricultural Worker Protection Standard
- UC ANR IPM program explains how to protect bees from pesticides
- The San Joaquin Valley battle against Aedes aegypti, the mosquito that spreads Zika
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KARE Newsletter August 2016
Nov 3, 2016
Inside this issue
- Leaffooted bug monitoring, damage, and management strategies for tree crops
- Apiary inspector training
- UCD plant pathology graduate students visit Kearney
- Surface irrigation efficiency workshop
- Bravo Lake Botanical Garden berry festival
- Farm demonstration network
- IPM extension in Guatemala
- New UC Cooperative Extension academics at Kearney
- Kearney helps teachers observe science in action at Kearney
- High school workshops
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KARE Newsletter May 2016
Aug 4, 2016
In this issue:
- Kearney participates in a high school STEM conference
- Kearney hosed the annual soilborne plant pathogens conference and California nematology workshop
- Kearney helps about 5800 local third graders learn about healthy lifestyles and agriculture, as well as plant some lettuce transplants.
- The battle against Johhsongrass gets nationwide research effort
- Human-wildlife conflict resolution conference held
- Organic agriculture research symposium
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KARE Newsletter November 2015
Feb 5, 2016
In this issue
- UC IPM offers online courses with continuing education units for CDPR certifications
- Jesse Sanchez honored as a White House Champion of Change for conservation tillage
- Jeff Mitchell and Randy Southard contributed to a Sacramento Bee op-ed
- Agriculture literacy week honored by Karen Ross
- Former Kearney intern Leslie Roche became a CE specialist
- Carrot research helps efforts to develop root-knot nematode resistant varieties
- Sorghum research news
- Kearney’s 50th Anniversary is celebrated
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KARE Newsletter February 2015
May 1, 2015
In this issue:
- Kearney's new nematologist, Andreas Westphal
- UC ANR's booths at the 2015 World Ag Expo
- Girl Scouts enjoy being crop science investigators
- Jeff Mitchell receives grant for high school ag sustainability classes
- California Naturalist scholarships available
- Students have fun exploring science, technology engineering and math careers
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KARE Newsletter November 2014
May 1, 2015
In this issue:
- Kearney's new plant pathologist Florent Trouillas
- Outreach to Parlier residents
- Lawrence (Larry) Schwankl receives a person of the year award
- New IPM resources available for workers
- New community educator, Roberta Barton
- Water and nitrogen use efficiency in pomegranates
- Pedestrian orchards highlighted in the local news
- Grocery workers visit crops
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KARE Newsletter August 2014
Sep 26, 2014
Inside this Issue:
- Conservation agriculture can benefit California
- KARE helps develop a sorghum feedstock program in California
- UC tests new mosquito death trap in Clovis
- UC ANR outreaches to the public at Bravo Lake Botanical Garden’s Berry Day
- Larry Schwankl retires after 28 years of service to UC Cooperative Extension
- Napolitano presents UC initiative to state food and agriculture board
- UC offers a publication on agritourism and nature tourism
- Agritourism is an option in the San Joaquin Valley
- Local residents learn more about how KARE helps them
- No blues for California blueberries
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KARE Newsletter May 2014
Jul 11, 2014
Inside this Issue:
- UC President Janet Napolitano and the President's Advisory Commission tour KARE
- President Napolitano tours California agriculture
- UC increases student and teacher awareness of nutrition, agricultural systems, and careers in agriculture
- Be on the lookout for spotted wing drosophila
- Smart sprayers are good for agriculture and the environment
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KARE Newsletter February 2014
Jul 11, 2014
Inside this Issue:
- We are recruiting for an outreach and education Program Representative II at KARE
- Free workshops at World Ag Expo part of UCCE’s centennial celebration
- A video of the December 2013 soil health workshops is available
- ‘Fuyu’ persimmons are sensitive to chilling injury
- Central Valley Postharvest Newsletter archives and other resources are available on the web
- Raisins are the focus of the 2014 San Joaquin Valley Grape Symposium
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KARE Newsletter November 2013
Jul 10, 2014
Inside this Issue:
- KARE’s 2013 alfalfa and forage meeting provides diverse tools to Ag
- Dr. Kris Tollerup, Cooperative Extension Advisor for IPM, joins KARE
- KARE’s Jeff Mitchell provides an annual sustainable Ag event at West Side REC, which included local farm tours
- Dry bean meeting at KARE shares crop management and marketing strategies
- Cooperative extension specialist, nut and fruit crop pathology position available at KARE
- KARE’s Grape Day highlights viticulture and enology research
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KARE Newsletter August 2013
May 13, 2014
Inside this Issue:
- KARE sees recent retirements
- KARE will get a new IPM advisor for nut, fruit and vine crops
- Biennial UC Grape Day 2013 August 13 in Parlier
- KARE completes new solar energy project
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KARE Newsletter May 2013
May 13, 2014
Inside this Issue
- KARE participates in local Earth Day celebration
- KARE and USDA collaborators visit Israel to learn more about the Polyphagous Shot Hole Borer
- UC helps increase student awareness of healthful food and where it comes from
- KARE scientist visits Australia to share insights into disease control and food safety strategies for tree nut crops
- Input about new Ag dean at UC Davis gathered at Kearney
- The University of California helps celebrate Ag Day: the California Advantage
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KARE Newsletter February 2013
May 13, 2014
Inside this Issue:
- Come join us at the World Ag Expo
- Pistachio industry provides $1.5 million for new Kearney-based specialist
- Pistachio producers support the power of research
- Marshall Johnson named "Distinguished Scientist of the Year"
- Glassy-winged sharpshooter and Pierce's disease are continuing threats to grape industry
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KARE Newsletter November 2012
May 13, 2014
Inside this Issue:
- Proper pest control techniques protect pets
- Almonds become California's second-most valuable commodity
- Kearney featured in latest issue of CA&ES Outlook magazine
- KQED reporter visits Kearney
- California pomegranates bound for Korea
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KARE Newsletter August 2012
May 13, 2014
Inside this Issue
- Three long-time academics among the Kearney retirees
- Pistachio farmers enlist a beneficial fungus to battle aflatoxin
- Vintner creates interesting new wines from research grapes
- UC scientists wrestle with weed control in organic alfalfa
- Six-part conservation agriculture documentary premieres Aug. 6
- Former Kearney intern lauded for outstanding Ph.D. dissertation
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KARE Newsletter May 2012
May 9, 2014
Inside this Issue:
- Kearney makes first appearance at the World Ag Expo
- Kearney goes solar
- Kearney IPM scientist receives two lifetime achievement awards
- Solar tents help stop the spread of weeds at remote sites
- Kearney teaches kids about food and farming
- In Memoriam: F. Gordon Mitchell
- In Memoriam: Fred Jensen
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KARE Newsletter February 2012
May 9, 2014
Inside this Issue:
- Greater demand driving GIS program growth at Kearney
- New "UC Fruit Report" launched
- Composted green waste supports soil solarization
- Dwarfing rootstocks developed at Kearney cut peach farming expenses
- Pomegranates draw a crowd to Kearney
- Balkans farmers show keen interest in postharvest science
- In Memoriam: Kearney-based entomology specialist emeritus Richard "Dick" Rice passes away
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KARE Newsletter November 2011
May 9, 2014
Inside this Issue:
- UC research will help table grape growers face the rainy season
- Sorghum and alfalfa innovations featured at Kearney field day
- Pomegranate meeting
- UC researchers screen promising new winegrapes at Kearney
- Kearney scientist receives Distinguished Service Award
- Jeff Dahlberg recognized for contributions to sorghum industry
- Late season blueberry field day features rabbiteye varieties
- In Memoriam: Beloved extension educator Peter Christensen passes away
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KARE Newsletter August 2011
May 9, 2014
Inside this Issue:
- Kearney Grape Day
- GEM avocado
- Country-Western singer Michael Peterson visits Kearney
- Partners in Agricultural Leadership
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