Articles Tagged with ''UC Davis''

Increasing food production without using additional water and land resources could be possible through further developments in irrigation and water engineer, plant breeding and gene editing, and innovative management of things like heat and sunlight.

Seven demonstration projects are set to split $1.12 million in funding through a program designed to improve soil health throughout California.

A new report from UC Davis indicates farms with surrounding natural habitat experience the most benefits from birds, including less crop damage and lower food safety risks.

Modernizing wheat breeding to prepare the major food crop for changing climate conditions is the goal of a new five-year $15 million national research project.

New research offers a “win-win-win” scenario for conservation, food safety and crop production.

California growers produced the largest walnut harvest to date in the 2020-2021 crop year. The California Walnut Board (CWB) says the 785,000 tons is an increase of 20% over the 2019 crop.

Funding from the USDA Organic Research and Education Initiative and Western SARE (Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education) helped plant scientists at the University of California, Davis, develop organic dry bean varieties that taste good, can survive the bean common mosaic virus and are viable in organic systems.

A team at the University of California, Davis, is seeking a patent for a product they’ve developed to keep food cold or frozen.

The rainy season is kicking off with enough moisture to ease some Californians’ water worries, but the long-term outlook for agriculture remains one that calls upon farmers to maximize “crop per drop.” In the case of almonds, one of the state’s most profitable crops, it could take decades to transition from existing trees to others that can achieve similar yields with less water.

Parts of California received record-breaking rainfall over the past week, but “it’s too early to tell” how much impact that will have on the current drought, says UC Davis professor Jay Lund, co-director of the Center for Watershed Sciences.