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UC launches urban agriculture website

At the website at http://ucanr.edu/urbanag, visitors will find information on raising livestock, crop production, marketing and policies for farming in their backyards, on a few acres, at a school or in a community setting. Rachel Surls, a UC Cooperative Extension advisor in Los Angeles...

Livestock producers and rice farmers can work together to solve each other’s problems

UC Cooperative Extension advisor Glenn Nader believes two problems could add up to one win-win solution. The California drought has ranchers desperate for inexpensive livestock feed. Air quality protection regulations that limit rice straw burning leave the rice industry with an abundance of...

A Very Showy Butterfly

There's a good reason why lepidopterists call the Gulf Fritillary (Agraulis vanillae) "showy." Its bright orange-red wings, spangled iridescent silver on the underside, and a four-inch wingspan all point to "showy."  The Gulf Frit is a tropical and subtropical butterfly with a range that...