Food & Agriculture | UC Davis

Street vendor cutting food.

Could Easing Restrictions on Street-Food Vending Improve Public Health and Economy?

by Maria Martinez Castro, UC Davis Media Relations Intern
December 13, 2021

The Curiosity Gap

Worker installing shade cloth over grapes

Increasing Temperatures Led to Better-Tasting Wine Grapes, but for How Long?

by Emily C. Dooley
October 04, 2021

Table with GMO food displayed

What’s a GMO Dinner?

by Amy Quinton
September 08, 2021

Backyard Chickens Need More Regulation

by Karen Nikos-Rose
March 01, 2018

Earth BioGenome Project to Sequence All Life

by Greg Watry
January 23, 2018

Grape leaf with brown edges

Newly Identified Enzyme May Be the Culprit in Pierce’s Disease Grapevine Damage

by Pat Bailey
January 12, 2016

Paris climate talk experts

by Kat Kerlin
November 23, 2015

A number of small plants (no pumpkins apparent)

Pumpkin science at UC Davis

by Andy Fell
October 28, 2015

bat held by a hand

Voracious bats scary to pests

by Kat Kerlin
October 28, 2015

Map of California with hot spots

Map identifies farmland with greatest potential for groundwater recharge

by Kat Kerlin
October 22, 2015

Four chickens on a lawn

UC Davis veterinarians offer tips for preventing bird flu in backyard chickens

by Pat Bailey
October 20, 2015

Electron micrograph photo of flu virus

Influenza A viruses more likely to emerge in East Asia than North America

by Kat Kerlin
September 29, 2015

Former UC Davis postdoc Kim Mosse digs through soil for sampling at a vineyard. A UC Davis study says winery wastewater is a viable option to irrigate vineyards. Credit: Maya Buelow/UC Davis

Winery wastewater a viable water source for vineyards

by Kat Kerlin
September 28, 2015

Man holding a big fish to the camera in a fish market with baskets of fish in the background

Plastic for Dinner: A Quarter of Fish Sold at Markets Contain Human-Made Debris

by Kat Kerlin
September 24, 2015

A dry field sits beside an orchard in Merced. The drought is expected to cost California's agricultural economy $1.84 billion and 10,100 jobs in 2015, according to a UC Davis Center for Watershed Sciences report.

Drought costs California agriculture $1.84B and 10,100 jobs in 2015

by Kat Kerlin
August 18, 2015

Older man on right showing a leave to a woman and a man, all standing in a field of produce.

'Sierra' magazine: UC Davis is green and cool — again!

by Dave Jones
August 11, 2015

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‘Cool’ conservation: UC Davis saves 61 million gallons of water a year

by Kat Kerlin
June 30, 2015

Photo: R. Paul Singh

Food engineer named GCHERA World Agriculture Prize laureate

by Pat Bailey
June 24, 2015

Jeff Stott feeds a calf with a big milk bottle

Vaccine field trials for deadly 'foothill abortion' cattle disease expand

by Pat Bailey
May 07, 2015

Nitrogen fingerprints point to warmer world

by Kat Kerlin
April 23, 2015

Photo: Two women shaking hands

UC Davis opens Life Sciences Innovation Center in Chile

by Andy Fell
April 21, 2015

A screen capture of a Google Map of California with a number of colored dots.

Where man and nature collide: Roadkill hot spots identified in California

by Kat Kerlin
April 15, 2015

Secondhand smog: Scientists determine amount of ozone pollution drifting to California from overseas

by Kat Kerlin
March 31, 2015

‘Refuge’ for the endangered Delta smelt — newly funded

by Kat Kerlin
March 25, 2015

Ocean acidification threatens coastal communities across the U.S.

by Kat Kerlin
February 23, 2015

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