SAN FRANCISCO – Rodent expert Roger Baldwin used to get fewer than one yearly inquiry about rat issues during most of his extended stint at the University of California, Davis, where he’s a professor ...

California's almond industry is under siege as a relentless rat infestation chews through crops and equipment, leaving a trail of damage costing farmers up to $310 million, the San Francisco Chronicle ...

Houston Wilson, a researcher with the Kearney Agricultural Research Center, walks through an almond orchard in Central California in 2024. (Gary Kazanjian/For The Times) Almond growers across Central ...

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While the world is still reeling from the hantavirus cruise outbreak — and the disease is gaining ground in the US — an entirely different rat-borne disease has claimed the life of one Berkley, ...