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Get ready for a brave new world. Hopefully we'll be able to inform, entertain and engage you, our readers.

Over the next few days, weeks and months, you will hear the voices from ASI, UC SAREP, Russell Ranch, the Student Farm and more as we bring you the latest and greatest in the work from our faculty and staff.

We look forward to hearing from you in the comments, via e-mail at [email protected].

-- Ian Cahir, Communications Coordinator

Welcome new and returning students, faculty, staff and friends of the University of California.

Thank you for joining the UC Davis Student Farm, a program of the Agricultural Sustainability Institute (ASI) at UC Davis, at Fall Convocation 2013.

Rayne Pegg, from the USDA will visit the Davis Joint Unified School District on March 8 to observe one of the nation’s most-promising public school-lunch models.

District officials are honored to host the visit and showcase Davis’ pairing of commodity foods with local produce as well as community partnerships with Davis Farm to School, the Agricultural Sustainability Institute at UC Davis, Sutter Davis Hospital and the Davis Farmers’ Market. 

At the request of the California State Legislature, the University of California established the UC Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Program (SAREP) in 1986 both to help Californians understand the significance of participating in a sustainable food system and to assist farmers and ranchers in developing and implementing sustainable production and marketing systems.

In celebration of  SAREP's 25th anniversary, we asked present and past collaborators to reflect on their work with SAREP, and on SAREP's history with California agriculture.

 The top 100 questions of importance to the future of global agriculture / Las cien preguntas mas importantes para el futuro de la agricultura global

A recent paper co-authored by ASI Director Tom Tomich has been translated into Spanish.

Dozens of scholars from around the world contributed to "The top 100 questions of importance to the future of global agriculture." The author list includes ag and food experts from major agricultural organizations, scientific societies and academic institutions.

The College Cafeteria Revolution
By Kelsey Meagher, UC Davis
 
 I find it hard to believe it’s only taken one or two generations for most Americans to lose touch with the source of their food.
 

Turlock, CA dairies share knowledge, experience.

California dairies have a lot of cows. Therefore, they also have a lot of cow urine and feces to deal with. How this nitrogen-rich waste is managed can have a lot of impacts on how nitrogen moves around and through the dairy. 

There are general principles to manure management, but on-dairy specifics may vary. Members of the California Nitrogen Assessment team visited two large dairies in Turlock, Calif., to learn more about how those dairies, and dairymen generally, are managing their manure. 

This Tuesday, June 22, join Agricultural Sustainability Institute director Tom Tomich and other UC Davis and ASI-affiliated researchers for a field day at our Russell Ranch Sustainable Agriculture Facility.

Researchers will present research results and discuss work conducted at the facility. Presentations will address irrigation management, greenhouse gas emissions, weed management, pollination ecology, soil microbiology, and tomato and legume cultivars.