ANR Employee News

Srabani Das, UC Cooperative Extension specialist in regenerative agriculture at UC Merced, attended the EcoFarm Conference at Asilomar in Pacific Grove on Jan. 22-25. She shared her thoughts about the conference below. Attending the EcoFarm Conference 2025 was a great experience for me.

Tuohey-Mote joins Small Farms Network Claire Tuohey-Mote joined UC Agriculture and Natural Resources on Jan. 6 as a staff research and extension associate for the Small Farms Network in San Luis Obispo and Santa Barbara counties.

The catastrophic wildfires and conflagrations in Southern California in January have raised concerns about water quality. To provide information, the California Institute for Water Resources has published a water testing website at https://ciwr.ucanr.edu/Tools/Drinking_Water/.

The Intermountain Research and Extension Center is soliciting proposals from researchers for new and continuing research projects in 2025-26. IREC is a 140-acre research facility located at 4,000 feet elevation near the Oregon border.

Growers and other San Joaquin Valley residents were invited to meet with UC ANR leadership and learn about the latest research at Kearney Agricultural Research and Extension Center in Parlier and West Side REC in Five Points on Jan. 9.