Looking for the perfect gift for a friend or family member who has a green thumb? The Cal Poly Pomona Nursery is now selling plants online and shipping them to customers within California. Customers can buy a variety of plants…
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Cal Poly Pomona plant science faculty and students have supported efforts to breed an army of wasps in a silent, but desperate war to save California’s citrus industry from a deadly disease. The incurable disease known as Huanglongbing (HLB) is…
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Wayne Bidlack, who served as dean of the College of Agriculture during a period of great change from 1995 to 2007, died Nov. 2. He was 74. When Bidlack arrived at Cal Poly Pomona in 1995 from Iowa State University,…
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One of the departments in the Huntley College of Agriculture is undergoing a name change. Effective this fall semester, the Department of Human Nutrition and Food Science is changing to simply the Department of Nutrition and Food Science. The name…
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Discounted tickets are now on sale online for the Cal Poly Pomona Pumpkin Festival. Come pick out a pumpkin for $5 each – any size – from the patch. Enjoy hay rides, the corn maze, the Cal Poly Pomona Insect…
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Chefs from La Verne, Pasadena, and Pomona will use produce grown locally by college students to prepare a farm to table dinner. Travis Flood of Alexander’s Steakhouse in Pasadena, Christopher Gendreau of Chase’s La Verne, and the Cal Poly Pomona…
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An Orange County arborist and businesswoman will receive the 2018 Jim Hicks Agricultural Achievement Award from Cal Poly Pomona. Rose Epperson is a certified arborist with more than 35 years’ experience in tree care and is a principal in the…
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Petting farm animals. Arabian horses. Veterinary demonstrations. Free food samples. Bargain prices on new plant varieties. The Huntley College of Agriculture will have all this and more on Homecoming weekend Saturday and Sunday, March 3-4. First off, the college will…
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Four apparel merchandising and management students were awarded $5,000 each in a national scholarship competition. The nonprofit YMA Fashion Scholarship Fund selected students Gabriela Ramirez Luis, Ashley Garcia, Jonathan Mayorga and Viridiana Navarro as scholarship recipients after its annual case…
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Cal Poly Pomona has a new llama, and the campus community can help choose its name. The Department of Animal & Veterinary Sciences purchased the llama to help guard its sheep and goats against coyotes. Llamas place themselves between the…
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