ANR Employee News

Leonel Jimenez joined UC ANR on Feb. 3 as area director for UC Cooperative Extension in Kings, Kern and Tulare counties. Jimenez is based at the UCCE office in Tulare County and can be reached at (559) 684-3300 and lrjimenez@ucanr.edu.

 UC ANR greeted state leaders, elected officials, legislative staffers and members of the public at Ag Day at the Capitol on March 19, a lovely day in Sacramento. “This was quite possibly the busiest Ag Day I’ve ever attended!” said Anne Megaro, director of Government and Community Relations. “We…

 The Regenerative Agriculture Summit, North America in Chicago brought together growers, industry and supply-chain representatives, nonprofit professionals, researchers, educators and other stakeholders from the food and fiber sector to discuss pathways for scaling up regenerative agriculture and…

UCOP announced two new hires at the Systemwide Office of Civil Rights.

 Steven V. Swain, UC Cooperative Extension environmental horticulture advisor for Marin and Sonoma counties, died unexpectedly in San Francisco on Feb. 8. He was 58. He earned a bachelor's degree in biology from UC Santa Cruz in 1989 and got his start in commercial arboriculture working with Lewis…