Have You Visited UC VRIC?

Kitty Schlosser, Program Representative, UC Davis

The Vegetable Research and Information Center was established as a service unit dedicated to communication, coordination and leadership in all areas of UC involvement in vegetable biology, production, postharvest handling, marketing and consumption. It is a focal point for vegetable information and issues for clientele inside and outside the University.

The center's web site (http://vric.ucdavis.edu) offers a wealth of information about vegetable crop production. The "vegetable information" section is organized so information may be accessed by crop, topic or postharvest information. For example, information about tomato diseases would be found under "crop-tomato" or "topic-disease".

The tomato web page has links to California production guidelines for fresh market and processing tomatoes. These publications are also available in Spanish. There is additional information about production costs, variety trial results, Integrated Pest Management, diseases, etc.

The web site offers similar information for many other vegetable crops. The "useful links" page has a comprehensive list of web sites from government to seed companies.

Check it out and feel free to offer suggestions on how to improve it. We hope this will become one of your most visited web sites.

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