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Problem Solving in San Joaquin County: early twentieth century UC Cooperative Extension projects Author: Rebecca Gourevitch July 27, 2022 Over 300 additional items were uploaded to Calisphere, our online repository, that reveal the ways in which work carried out by UC Cooperative Extension, since 1914, reached residents and supported rural communities in San Joaquin County. |
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Highlights for National Dairy Month Author: Sophia LaMonica June 17, 2022 June has been celebrated as National Dairy Month since 1937 to promote drinking milk and to stabilize the dairy demand when production was at a surplus. A search for "dairy" in UC Merced Library's California Agricultural Resources Archive (CARA) yields nearly 400 digitized resources documenting the state's history of research and development in the dairy industry. Annual narrative reports of county agents, milk flavor and production cost surveys, cow census records, and dairy industry newsletters provide a picture of how California's dairy boom came to be. |
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New Awards for Regional Archives at UC Merced Library Author: Emily S. Lin May 14, 2022 In October 2021, the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded UC Merced Library a grant from American Rescue Plan funds to support the California Agricultural Resources Archive (CARA) project. While California’s Central Valley is one of the most productive agricultural regions on the globe, the historical records of the rural center of California are under-represented in the American register. The documents, maps, and photographs preserved in CARA include valuable information on local land development, crop research, and changing agricultural practices. They also shed light on rural domestic life and civic engagement through the organization of Farm Bureaus, agricultural associations, and 4-H. The one-year grant has funded the retention of four positions: an archivist, two undergraduate student assistants, and a graduate student specialist. In addition to allowing the library to continue processing collections, this federal support enables the library... |
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Cooperative Extension Firsts in Modoc County Author: Rebecca Gourevitch April 7, 2022 Additional material from the Modoc County, UC Cooperative Extension Records, part of the UC Cooperative Extension Archive at UC Merced, have been digitized and made available on Calisphere. Found in the collection are copies of Modoc County Ranch Roundup, a newsletter dedicated to Cooperative Extension activities in the region. |
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From the Mariposa County, UC Cooperative Extension Collection: The 1988 Beef Checkoff Author: Rebecca Gourevitch March 2, 2022 The California Agricultural Resources Archive (CARA) team digitized and placed online over one hundred items from the Mariposa County, UC Cooperative Extension collection including materials related to the 1988 Beef Checkoff referendum. |
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From the Archives: 4-H Youth Development Author: Emily S. Lin February 28, 2022 As farm advisors fanned out across California in the 1910s and 1920s and developed programs of work with local farm bureaus, one of their key endeavors was enrolling boys and girls in local agricultural clubs. Early agricultural clubs, including calf, pig, poultry, vegetable growing, and home economics clubs, were formed to provide youth with hands-on learning experiences and demonstrate better agricultural and home practices. Merced County agent J.F. Grass attested in his 1920 report that these clubs successfully “aroused the interest of parents” and “stimulated farm bureau work in those communities.” Competitions were established to increase attention to purebred stock, better feed, and other farm improvement objectives. |
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Processing of Modoc County’s UC Cooperative Extension archival collection underway Author: Rebecca Gourevitch January 12, 2022 The California Agricultural Resources Archive (CARA) team is processing archival documents from the Modoc County, UC Cooperative Extension collection. Materials reflect the prominent livestock management operations in California's most northeastern county, as well as watershed restoration projects and the various activities performed by farm advisors and topic specialists. |
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Over 1,000 photographs from San Joaquin County, UC Cooperative Extension digitized at UC Merced Library Author: Rebecca Gourevitch December 8, 2021 The California Agricultural Resources Archive (CARA) team has made great progress in recent months to digitize and make accessible the UC Cooperative Extension Archive. Working in collaboration with the San Joaquin County Historical Society and Museum, we digitized 1,051 photographs as part of the University of California Agricultural Cooperative Extension, San Joaquin County, Collection. |
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History of UC Cooperative Extension in Modoc County now online Author: Rebecca Gourevitch October 14, 2021 The California Agricultural Resources Archive (CARA) team published online historic records from the UC Cooperative Extension office in Modoc County. |
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Radio Spots by UCANR Broadcast Services added to UC Cooperative Extension Archive Author: Rebecca Gourevitch September 13, 2021 The library has made 154 audio clips accessible for listening through Calisphere from the University of California Agriculture and Natural Resources (UCANR) Archive. |
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