Thanks! I'm thrilled and thankful for a great team of people to work with!

Congrats to Rachael Freeman Long: from #ucdavis entomology grad student to #ucce adviser to recipient of Bradford-Rominger Agricultural Sustainability Leadership Award. Benefits of #hedgerows and #biocontrol. Rachael Long Entrepreneur Society #BugSquad bit.ly/2HAnxDC

California has the right growing conditions to produce high-quality, large, creamy-white #garbanzo beans for high-end markets, like salad bars,” says Rachael Long ucanr.edu/blogs/blogcore… #chickpeas

Rachael Long Rachael Long Ag&Natural Resources embodies the spirit of Cooperative Extension, cooperating with growers and others on Ag sustainability research, says VP Humiston. Long receives Bradford Rominger Agricultural Sustainability Leader Award from Ag Sustainability Institute at UC Davis ucanr.edu/blogs/blogcore…

California farmers grow about 70,000 acres of sunflowers 🌻, mostly in the Sacramento Valley, for hybrid seed stock. “We have perfect conditions...for producing high quality seed,” says Rachael Long Rachael Long ucanr.edu/News/?routeNam…

#Bats save Butte County farmers a "bat load of money,"writes Brody Wayne Fernandez. 150 bats can consume > a million insects each year, says Rachael Rachael Long, UC Cooperative Extension advisor. bit.ly/2JPYuPl Chico Enterprise-Record 🦇 Photo by Dan Reidel

Congratulations! Well deserved!

Nicole Tautges, UC Ag Sustainability Institute Russell Ranch, speaking on the benefits of alfalfa in crop rotations at the UC ANR Western States Alfalfa Symposium in Reno, NV.

Opinion: How a bipartisan bill in Congress could save farms like mine - Los Angeles Times #immigration #farms #food #Agriculture #FWMA #farmworkers latimes.com/opinion/story/…

The #chlorpyrifos ban is a major issue for alfalfa, since it is one of the most popular wide-spectrum insecticides for management of key alfalfa pests, UC scientists Rachael Long, Dan Putnam & Ian Grettenberger wrote Farm Press farmprogress.com/crop-protectio…

Scott Galloway ucanr.org/blogs/blogcore… Rachael Long

A farmer left a strip of oak trees along this tomato field and they were popular for birds like this Nutall's Woodpecker. @sachaheath and Rachael Long have demonstrated that woodpeckers provide valuable insect pest control for nut farmers

New California blackeye bean varieties show resistance to cowpea aphid, beans.ucanr.org/?blogpost=4337…

Use of drones for aerial application of #pesticides in ag crops is becoming a reality. UCCE advisor Rachael Long and her colleagues found that drone and airplane applications were equally effective in alfalfa. ucanr.edu/News/?routeNam…

Unwelcome Grazers: Geese Sweep in and Strip Alfalfa and Grain Fields Bare, ucanr.edu/blogs/blogcore…

Learning how to manage alfalfa during droughts from UCCE Advisor Michelle Leinfelder-Miles at the 2022 World Alfalfa Congress in San Diego.

2022 World Alfalfa Congress in San Diego draws a global crowd, ArcGIS StoryMap by N. Ross.