Green Blog

Grapevine red blotch virus, a disease that is dramatically reducing the value of winegrapes in California's premium wine production region, is harming plants by inhibiting photosynthesis in the leaves, according to research published this month in the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry.

A $4.6 million grant to UC Merced and UC Irvine will help UC Agriculture and Natural Resources researchers develop new tools and methods for California land owners to better manage the state's forests, shrub lands and grasslands.

UC Cooperative Extension cropping systems specialist Jeff Mitchell is issuing a standing invitation to the public to visit the site of an ongoing conservation agriculture research project and see for themselves the results of long-term soil-building practices.

Cannabis is unlike any other agricultural crop. Because of its circuitous history once illegal to grow, and now legal but heavily regulated cannabis has cast a unique footprint on the environment and the communities of farmers who grow it.

California is searching for solutions to the wildfire crisis. Livestock ranchers believe they can help.