about the center

Mission
Located in the Department of Plant Sciences, the Agronomy Research & Information Center (RIC) is an outreach service, which provides research-based, up-to-date, comprehensive, and reliable information on California agronomic crops to the general public, industry, and governmental and private agencies. The agronomic crops comprise major food, fiber, and forage crops grown on six million acres in California. These include alfalfa, winter cereals (barley, oats, wheat), corn, cotton, dry edible legumes, rice, safflower, sugarbeet, sunflower, and specialty crops (kenaf, lupin, and sesame).

Methods
The AgRIC will provide its information primarily through a web site. This site will function as an entry point for individuals who wish to obtain more information on field crops. The web site will contain:

Information about the center

News briefs, including grant program announcements

University of California, Cooperative Extension (CE), workgroup, and individual researcher publications, reports, and leaflets

Contacts for further information: CE specialists, farm advisors, faculty

Calendar of events for workshops, training meetings, and field days

Links to other web sites of interest.
The AgRIC will co-host the Agronomy & Range Science Continuing Conference. It will also help affiliated organizations such as workgroups establish and maintain web pages. It will work with the Plant Sciences RICs to achieve its mission.

UC Davis | College A&ES

Revised: 22 Sept 2008
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