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Inside this issue:

• Helping honey bees
• CDPR approved online CEU classes
• Malcolm Media Expos
• Central Valley Air Summit
• Giving Tuesday

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 50^th Anniversary is celebrated

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Inside this Issue:

• Kearney Grape Day
• GEM avocado
• Country-Western singer Michael Peterson visits Kearney
• Partners in Agricultural Leadership