Sacramento Bee |

Op-ed: Urban farms can help feed the hungry

UC Agriculture and Natural Resources' Rachel Surls writes that ANR provides information for urban farmers and decision-makers interested in urban agriculture to improve food security.
UC Davis |

Ag-tech startup helps farmers analyze water use

Tule, a new business formed with the strength of UC Davis research behind it, was one of 14 startups launched last year with UC Davis support.
New York Times |

Op-ed: The myth of high-protein diets

Dean Ornish, a clinical professor of medicine at UC San Francisco, writes that the debate is not as simple as low-fat versus low-carb.
Fresno Bee |

Strawberry season has arrived in the Valley

UC agricultural assistant Michael Yang is quoted in this story about the central San Joaquin Valley's strawberry crop arriving about two weeks early.
Wall Street Journal |

Are low-salt diets necessary (or healthy) for most people?

UC Davis adjunct professor of nutrition David McCarron weighs in on the drawbacks of a low-salt diet.
Smithsonian |

Rice can help save salmon if farms are allowed to flood

UC Davis scientists are participating in an experiment that places thousands of two-inch Chinook salmon in inundated rice fields for a few weeks.
Western Farm Press |

UC hires four viticulture advisors

Four new viticulture farm advisors were hired in the past year by the University of California to serve in San Joaquin Valley Extension office positions.
New York Times |

Breast milk becomes a commodity, with mothers caught up in debate

This story about breast milk becoming an industrial commodity and new frontier in biotech quotes UC Davis' Bruce German and UC San Diego's Jae Kim.
Wall Street Journal |

Cage-free hens study finds little difference in egg quality

UC Davis scientists participated in a study that compared a cage-free barn with one with traditional cages and one with larger, “colony” cages.
Science Today |

The FDA plans to add new values to nutrition facts labels

San Francisco Chronicle |

Op-ed: How to discourage water wars: don't give away water

UC Davis' Jay Lund and Peter Moyle write this piece suggesting that we should treat environmental uses of water more as a matter of economics.
San Francisco Chronicle |

Food fight: Should the government link beef to global warming?

This article quotes Marion Nestle, a New York University nutrition professor who recently taught a class at UC Berkeley, and UC Berkeley's Dave Rochlin.