Latest News

Latest News

Dr. Mitloehner presented the E.T. York Distinguished Lecture at Auburn University on building a toolbox of sustainable solutions

On October 3, Dr. Frank Mitlohener spoke at the Auburn University College of Agriculture’s E.T. York Distinguished Lecturer Series in a talk titled Myths and Misconceptions about a Climate Footprint of Animal Agriculture. His talk clarified common misconceptions about the climate impact of animal agriculture, addressing its carbon footprint in relation to total greenhouse gas emissions and how methane’s short-lived nature impacts quantifying emissions.

Carbon Sequestration Explained: How Nature Captures Carbon

Research into carbon sequestration could offer answers on how we can store carbon in the ground and not in our atmosphere where it can warm our planet. Carbon exists on Earth in solid, dissolved, and gaseous forms. Carbon dioxide, CO2, is a powerful heat-trapping gas produced both in nature and by human activity.

A New Tradition to Honor our Ag Community - Salute to Ag Day Football Game

On September 7, the CLEAR Center sponsored the inaugural UC Davis Salute to Ag football game against Texas A&M-Commerce. The UC Davis Health Stadium was full of energy as students, agricultural organizations, and the local community gathered to cheer on the Aggies at the university's first-ever Salute to Ag Day.

CLEAR Center, Aggies kick off fall with salute to agriculture

DAVIS, August 6, 2024 - Even as the CLEAR Center at University of California, Davis, works to help farmers and ranchers achieve environmental and climate objectives in its home state, in America, and in regions and nations throughout the world, it is focused on an altogether different kind of goal. 

 

World Pork Expo Panel Recap: Do good things and tell people about them

Dr. Frank Mitloehner and CLEAR Center staff and students attended the World Pork Expo in early June. Held in Des Moines Iowa, producers, researchers, industry businesses and reporters from around the world spent two days connecting and learning about the current state and future possibilities for the pork industry. 

CLEAR Center Team Joins PIG-PARADIGM Annual Meeting

Reducing antimicrobial resistance in pigs is a major concern. So much so, there’s an organization dedicated solely to addressing the worldwide problem — and a yearly gathering to share research and further the cause with partnering universities including University of California Davis (UC Davis), Wageningen University & Research, University of Copenhagen, Aarhus University and Aalborg University. 

Dr. Frank Mitloehner Joins Discover Ag Podcast to Discuss Cattle and Climate

Billing their show as “ag like you’ve never seen or heard it before” and the place “where food news and pop culture collide,” millennials and farmers Natalie Kovarik and Tara Vander Dussen are in cyberspace each week with provocative, enlightening and entertaining convos that shed light on the what, the where and the how of our food supply. 

Fighting Fire with Feeding

California’s cattle ranchers contribute a significant amount to the region’s culture, economy and food supply, but do they also inadvertently help to temper the wildfires that have been plaguing the state? And if so, is it a better alternative – environmentally speaking – to letting grasslands burn?

UC Davis’ Yanhong Liu Shores up PIG-PARADIGM Study

Yanhong Liu, an associate professor of animal nutrition and a member of the CLEAR Center at University of California, Davis (UC Davis), is bolstering the work of the five-year-long international PIG-PARADIGM study currently underway. In addition to lending her well-regarded expertise in animal nutrition and experience gained from her work to reduce antibiotics use in swine, Liu and other faculty from UC Davis are leading a project team of postdoctoral researchers and Ph.D. candidates in nutrition, microbiology and big data analysis.