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Rob Wilson, director of the University of California s Intermountain Research and Extension Center in Tulelake, Calif., will face a season of zero water deliveries from the Klamath River as drought continues its chokehold on the West. The loss of water means research will cease on many projects at the station. Tulelake s Intermountain Research and Extension Center, SJ Valley s Westside Research and Extension Center will lose irrigation water.
California farmers aren t the only ones suffering with zero water allocations this season. The research efforts they rely upon from Extension programs will also be hurt as two University of California research stations have been told not to expect surface water deliveries and others may suffer similar water woes this year.
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Jeff Dahlberg, center, stands with a delegation of Chinese sorghum scientists in a sorghum field in Parlier, Calif., in 2015. Jeff Dahlberg to retire as director of the UC s Kearney research center Jan. 8.
UC Cooperative Extension specialist Jeff Dahlberg, also the director of the UC Kearney Agricultural Research and Extension Center (KARE) in Parlier, invoked his 35 years of sorghum expertise to increasing interest in growing the crop in California and to better understanding plants ability to tolerate drought. Dahlberg retires Jan. 8.
As a Peace Corps volunteer in Niger in the early 1980s, Dahlberg was intrigued by sorghum, a staple food being cultivated by the country s vast population of subsistence farmers.