Download or read book The Future of California Agricultural Education and the UC Cooperative Extension written by California. Legislature. Senate. Committee on Agriculture and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Shaping Agriculture in the 21st Century written by and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Community and University written by and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Guidelines for Weed Control written by United States. Agricultural Research Service and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Present and Future Needs of Southern California in Agricultural Research and Education written by Walter Reuther and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book From Cows to Concrete written by Rachel Surls and published by Angel City Press. This book was released on 2016-05-14 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What? Los Angeles was the original wine country of California, leading the state's wine production for more than a century? Los Angeles County was the agricultural center of North America until the 1950s? And where today's freeways soar, cows calmly chewed their cud? How could that be? Los Angeles, the capital of asphalt and Klieg lights, was once a paradise filled with grapevines and bovines, so abundant with Nature's gifts that no one could imagine a more pastoral place? Los Angeles County was the center of an agricultural empire. Today, it is the nation's most populous urban metropolis. What happened? Where did the green go? As Americans connect with gardens, farmers markets, and urban farms, most are unaware that each of these activities have deep roots in Los Angeles, and that the healthy food they savor literally had its roots in L.A. This book is for all who treasure the country's agrarian history.
Download or read book Raymond G Lyon written by and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 55 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Raymond G. Lyon was born on a sheep and pear ranch in Lake County in 1933. After being active as a youth in 4-H and Future Farmers of America, Lyon aspired to be a farm advisor or agriculture teacher. Lyon received degrees in animal husbandry and education from California Polytechnic State University. After teaching high school agriculture in Orland, Lyons took a position as 4-H and Farm Advisor with UC extension in 1958, a position he held for thirty-seven years. During those years, Lyon was active in 4-H fundraising and program development, including personally running over a dozen summer-long cross-country trips for 4-H participants to visit other regions of the US. Interview topics include: ethnicity and changing agricultural communities; 4-H in Glenn and Colusa Counties; gender in 4-H; program fundraising; relationship between growers and Extension; the goals of 4-H.
Download or read book Report on Agricultural Education in the California State Colleges written by California. Department of Education. Committee on Agricultural Education in the California State Colleges and published by . This book was released on 1954* with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Community Food Systems in California written by Gail Feenstra and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book California s Future written by Raymond H. Coppock and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Essays on the Contribution of University of California Cooperative Extension written by Diti Chatterjee and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: University of California Cooperative Extension (UCCE) has been an integral part of California's agriculture, with over a hundred years of research and outreach programs focused towards enhancement of agricultural productivity and water use efficiency. There has been a growing debate among policy makers and bureaucrats around provision of funding in cooperative extension and other federally funded research in agriculture, and possible privatization of the same. With this in mind this dissertation analyzes the impact of UCCE in three areas--creation and dissemination of research-based knowledge aimed at improving agricultural productivity, value of county level agricultural sales, and irrigation water use efficiency. The first analysis involves empirical analysis of the relationship between UCCE's investments in researchers and non-research provisions including infrastructure, and knowledge production. For capturing knowledge production, a knowledge index is created to incorporate knowledge produced and disseminated by UCCE via an array of different outreach methods. The second analysis involves the estimation of the impact of the knowledge stock created by UCCE through current and lagged expenditures in research and outreach programs at the county level. The analysis makes the hypothesis that current value of agricultural production is impacted by a knowledge stock which is composed by current and older expenditures made by UCCE on research and outreach programs. The knowledge stock enters the estimation function as a sum of current and depreciated value of older expenditures. Estimation results indicate that knowledge stock comprised of current and 5 lagged expenditure variables has a positive impact on current value of agricultural output, thereby providing evidence of a long term impact of current expenditures on future production at the county level. We estimate a net positive benefit accrued to county agricultural production value in the long run. The final analysis estimates the impact of UCCE's irrigation information on farm level value of average agricultural output per irrigated acre, as well as water use per irrigated acre. The study provides evidence of positive effect of UCCE, on both the outcome variables, and a net positive benefit to an average farm. There is an indication of trade-off between water use and revenue maximization, where users of UCCE irrigation information use more water, but produce higher output. Results provide important policy implications in relation to farmer adoption of water-saving technology prescribed by UCCE, irrigation efficient production and actual water use.
Download or read book Report on the Needs of Education in Agriculture in California written by California. Liaison Committee of the Regents of the University of California and the State Board of Education and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The California Nitrogen Assessment written by Thomas P. Tomich and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2016-06-14 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Collaborating Institutions: Agricultural Sustainability Institute at UC Davis, UC ANR Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Program, UC ANR Kearney Foundation of Soil Science, UC ANR Agricultural Issues Center, UC ANR California Institute for Water Resources, Water Science and Policy Center at UC Riverside."
Download or read book University of California Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Program written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Features the California Cooperative Extension Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Program at the University of California in Davis. Provides information about grants, related university courses, crop and livestock production, and the Biologically Integrated Farming Systems program. Offers program reports, news releases, current newsletters, and other publications.
Download or read book Partnerships for Sustaining California Agriculture written by and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Cultivating Science Harvesting Power written by Christopher R. Henke and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2008-08-22 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How agricultural scientists and growers in California have cooperated—and struggled—in shaping the state's multi-billion-dollar farm industry. Just south of San Francisco lies California's Salinas Valley, the heart of a multi-billion dollar agricultural industry that dominates U. S. vegetable production. How did the sleepy valley described in the stories of John Steinbeck become the nation's “salad bowl”? In Cultivating Science, Harvesting Power, Christopher R. Henke explores the ways that science helped build the Salinas Valley and California's broader farm industry. Henke focuses on the case of University of California “farm advisors,” scientists stationed in counties throughout the state who have stepped forward to help growers deal with crises ranging from labor shortages to plagues of insects. These disruptions in what Henke terms industrial agriculture's “ecology of power” provide a window onto how agricultural scientists and growers have collaborated—and struggled—in shaping this industry. Through these interventions, Henke argues, science has served as a mechanism of repair for industrial agriculture. Basing his analysis on detailed ethnographic and historical research, Henke examines the history of state-sponsored farm advising—in particular, its roots in Progressive Era politics—and looks at both past and present practices by farm advisors in the Salinas Valley. He goes on to examine specific examples, including the resolution of a farm labor crisis during World War II at the Spreckels Sugar Company, the use of field trials for promoting new farming practices, and farm advisors' and growers' responses to environmental issues. Beyond this, Henke argues that the concept of repair is broadly applicable to other cases and that expertise can be deployed more generally to encourage change for the future of American agriculture.
Download or read book University Bulletin written by University of California (System) and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
