Farm Progress

Photo collage - 100th anniversary of the Desert Research and Extension Center, El Centro, Calif.

Cary Blake 1, Editor

December 6, 2012

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The University of California Desert Research and Extension Center in October celebrated its 100th anniversary with a party at its headquarters in El Centro, Calif. The century of work includes a plethora of innovations in agricultural research designed to benefit agriculture in the arid, low-desert environment.

(For complete article, see: Desert agriculture celebrates century of innovation)

About the Author(s)

Cary Blake 1

Editor, Western Farm Press

Cary Blake, associate editor with Western Farm Press, has 32 years experience as an agricultural journalist. Blake covered Midwest agriculture for 25 years on a statewide farm radio network and through television stories that blanketed the nation.
 
Blake traveled West in 2003. Today he reports on production agriculture in California and Arizona.
 
Blake is a native Mississippian, graduate of Mississippi State University, and a former Christmas tree grower.

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