Congratulations to Rachel Long, recipient of the 2019 Bradford Rominger Agricultural Sustainability Leadership Award! Rachel will receive her award on May 28 at the Agricultural Sustainability Institute's Distinguished Speakers Series. Rachel earned this award as a result of her ability to conduct research and translate the results into information and recommendations her clientele can use to improve their businesses.
When you have educational content to share as a brief news story, consider submitting it to the story pipeline. This new outlet for your knowledge is a piece of telling our story and promoting all of the science developed and/or relevant across the state. Take a look at what knowledge Michael Cahn shared. We have so much information to share that is useful to people well beyond our county lines, why not put it somewhere with a broader reach.
I suspect fruit growers may be in need of recommendations about next steps following this rain. I'm assuming I will have the weekend off from yard work, though I need to prune roses. Instead, I should finish that last merit review I've put off since Sunday and then start reviewing comments and recommendations from the Peer Review and Ad Hoc Review Committees.
This week has flown by, though I am eager for Friday to end. Both the CD and the REC director meetings, originally planned as in-person meetings, were 2+ hour phone calls yet the rest of each day managed to fill with other meetings. The California Farm Demonstration Network met on Tuesday morning; I feel good about having left with action items as there is nothing worse than a meeting with no next steps. Mark, Mark and I met yesterday afternoon to do some planning and prioritizing. We have some ideas to pursue, intended to meet some mentoring needs and allow each of us to provide more support across the state.
Tomorrow is our annual meeting with the President and her team. I suspect much of the discussion will focus on the budget, building on the discussion at today's Regents meeting. It looks like Glenda may not have a chance to talk about UC ANR at this month's Regents meeting. I hope we have a chance to tell our story soon.