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Pam Kan-Rice
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Matchmaker for journalists seeking expert comment from scientists @ucanr.bsky.social. Food bank volunteer. Here for climate, wildfire, drought, pests, coyotes, chickens, nutrition & other cool stuff https://ucanr.edu
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This complements my cranberry post 🦃 😂
November 16, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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Listen: Water Talk discusses cranberry growing with @fkearns.bsky.social
Oregon is known for rain, but my friend’s harvest was delayed by insufficient water to flood the sandy bogs. Chilling hours were a bit short this season, too
Cranberry harvest in Oregon: Grower Tami, my bestie from high school & college, and I hold up rakes while standing in a flooded cranberry bog surrounded by floating red berries. Two guys are working around us.
November 16, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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California farmers grow ginger. This is at a Bay Area farmers market
California-grown ginger with green stems on a table at a farmers market
November 13, 2025 at 12:42 AM
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LIVE or online: Daniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social @ucanr.edu to speak on extreme weather events Nov. 5 in Irvine. Join him for “Climate Change Through the Lens of Increasing Hydroclimate Whiplash” bit.ly/SwainNAS
As temperatures rise, the atmosphere can soak up more water and release more water, like an expanding sponge, creating a hydroclimate whiplash. Illustration of two sponges showing that a larger sponge can absorb more water and release more water than the smaller sponge Daniel Swain headshot
November 3, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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“Nutsedge competes for water, nutrients and can block out sunlight if it’s not removed before it spreads out in cilantro,” Oleg Daugovish @ucanr.edu said. “The only way to get rid of nutsedge currently is to pull it out by hand, which is cost-prohibitive in cilantro.”
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University of California Cooperative Extension farm adviser Oleg Daugovish checks on cilantro plantings in a trial looking at the effectiveness of the herbicide Dual Magnum against yellow nutsedge weed.
October 29, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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Correctly irrigated avocado trees can recover from a fast-moving wildfire in four months, says Ben Faber @ucanr.edu www.agalert.com/california-a... 🥑
This reservoir at Brokaw Ranch Co. in Santa Paula holds 1 million gallons of water and is one of two reservoirs on the farm. Photo by Rob McCarthy
October 29, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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Livestock producers invited to New World #Screwworm Information Webinar 6pm Wednesday, Nov 19
Speakers @ucanr.edu, @ucdavisvetmed.bsky.social, @ucriverside.bsky.social

Register by 1pm Nov 18 bit.ly/screwworm2025
Adult New World screwworm looks like a fly with big orange eyes and a metallic blue-green body. A bunch of white New World screwworm larvae Close-up of one screwworm larva against a red background
October 27, 2025 at 2:01 AM
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Today @ucanrwater.bsky.social climate scientist @weatherwest.bsky.social was at @ucanr.edu office to discuss science communications with @cchamplin.bsky.social, @ucanrmike.bsky.social & others & what he’ll wear to TIME100 Next gala in NYC
Daniel Swain, standing on left among high top tables, speaks to a few colleagues in break room
October 22, 2025 at 1:21 AM
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What’s making the house shake!?!
October 16, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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“We’re at a point in California where people are pretty desperate for solutions around fire,” @lenyaqd.bsky.social told @shapersyris.bsky.social @atmosmag.bsky.social
Https://atmos.earth/ecological-wisdom/healing-the-wests-relationship-with-fire-through-pyrotherapy
Lenya wearing a red hard hat with prescribed burn flames burning forest debris behind her
October 12, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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I’m raking cranberries toward the elevator so Americans can enjoy cranberry sauce with their Thanksgiving turkey next month
Four people standing and raking berries in a flooded cranberry bog with red berries floating in a corral
October 11, 2025 at 12:53 AM
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Entering the war zone
October 8, 2025 at 11:52 PM
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Interested in forest and biomass management? @ucanr.edu is offering a free workshop Oct. 15 in Sonora 🌲
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Register now - Biomass workshop series: session 3 field day. Registration is free. Three photos of a machine working roadside of a forest
October 1, 2025 at 1:48 AM
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When canning food, make sure to follow USDA recipes to ensure food safety, says UC Master Food Preserver @ucanr.edu #TerraMadre
September 27, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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Pears are delicious at the farmers market. Only 4 more weeks of pears in Contra Costa County 🍐
Man poses beside 3 boxes of pears ready to eat now, in a couple days and a few days
September 14, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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Garnet Fire in Fresno County quiet now, but will probably continue burning for days or weeks
Map showing the Garnet Fire footprint
September 11, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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Not a lot of wildfire activity in California today. Some sprinkles of rain
Map showing rain in Northern California
September 11, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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I enjoyed seeing 5th graders visiting Elkus Ranch in 2022 to learn about the role of water in our lives @ucanrwater.bsky.social
Kids gather around UC Cooperative Extension specialist Sam Sandoval, who explains how groundwater moves in soil. Kids move landscape features around on a model to see what happens when a flash flood flows through Tanya Henderson describes how garden plants are used in products such as body lotion as well as for aesthetic purposes in the landscape. At the beach, Igor Lacan shows students a crab, one of multitudes of animals that depend on clean water in the ocean to live.
September 6, 2025 at 11:43 PM
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Daniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social @ucanr.edu had interesting things to share with @kwmrradio.bsky.social about Northern California's unseasonably cool spring into summer and about fire season kwmr.org/post/17703
Headshot of Daniel Swain
September 4, 2025 at 1:18 AM
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That’s beautiful! Never seen one before. Sunday I saw my first artichoke bloom
August 19, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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Dairy farmers are supplementing income by transferring beef cattle embryos to dairy-cow surrogates. Development of 3 technologies paved the way for the emerging use of embryo transfer, Alison Van Eenennaam @ucanr.edu told @calebmhampton.bsky.social y.social
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Calf wearing an ear tag
August 18, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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Farmworkers will be harder to find in California, and they will be more expensive to employ, Ali Hill @natureatcal.bsky.social & @ucanr.edu told Ag Alert www.agalert.com/california-a...
Piles of grapevines that have been pulled out of the ground. Photo by Vicky Boyd
August 13, 2025 at 10:27 PM
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Neglected orchards attract pests that affect neighboring farms
“If there are a lot of moths in one orchard and there is another orchard nearby, you will likely get some moths migrating into that orchard,” @jrijal.bsky.social @ucanr.edu told @calebmhampton.bsky.social
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A tree without leaves among leafy trees in an orchard. Photo by Caleb Hampton
August 1, 2025 at 11:13 PM
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For every $1 donated, Food Bank of Contra Costa and Solano uses 97 cents to buy fresh produce. These apricots were donated by a Lodi grower, but the food bank had to pick up the fruit
A blue gloved hand reaches into the center of a box of apricots. A white gloved hand reaches in from the left
July 20, 2025 at 3:45 AM
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Great to meet @dventon.bsky.social @kqedscience.bsky.social at the climate book club tonight. Good discussion on how to turn concern into action
Adina & Danielle sit on stools speaking in front of a red KQED sign
July 18, 2025 at 3:42 AM