A new UC Riverside study finds parasites more common than in commercially raised birds.
Backyard chickens - less healthy than you think?
New organic plant breeding effort sprouting at UC Davis
Effort will provide California growers with seeds for tomato, bean, pepper and other crop varieties.
Pastured Poultry Farm to explore solutions for small chicken farms
UC Davis farm is home to 150 young laying chickens and a living lab where students and researchers hope to develop solutions benefiting pasture-based poultry farms, integrative crop-and-poultry farms, and backyard flocks.
The research that's changing U.S. food policy
UC research is helping uncover answers to the nation’s obesity epidemic and other thorny food-related issues.
UC Davis and Pakistan launch $17M food and agricultural partnership
Project will build on UC Davis' efforts in Pakistan agriculture, with a renewed emphasis on an exchange of faculty and graduate students.
Map IDs farmland with greatest potential for replenishing groundwater
Groundwater banking index provides information on millions of acres of California farmland.
Engineering student makes an impact on agriculture
UC Merced undergrad Rebecca Quinte, a UC Global Food Initiative fellow, is working on a project that aims to shoo away leaffooted bugs, insects that feed on the seeds of crops like pomegranates, almonds and pistachios.
Crop cure
Scientists in new center to use medical research techniques to help food crops withstand drought and climate change.
UC Davis wins specialty-crops grant for lettuce project
Multidisciplinary researchers win specialty-crops grant for project to improve lettuce crops.
From 'Healthy Soils' talk to a garden's grand opening
UC Davis hosts a variety of events in October to celebrate World Food Day and National Food Day.
3-D printing could help save avocado and landscape trees
Technology has greatly accelerated research on an ambrosia beetle that is damaging trees in Southern California.
Winery wastewater a viable water source for vineyards
UC Davis research provides first data to support California wine industry’s reuse of treated winery wastewater, and it describes recommended conditions for the practice, with key focus on salinity issues.