Even on the west side of the San Joaquin Valley, where average rainfall is a mere 7 inches per year, farmers can reap the benefits of winter cover crops without the expense of irrigation, University of California research has found.
A longstanding member of the UC Conservation Agriculture Systems Initiative, Monte Bottens, is featured with his father in the March 2012 issue of No-Till Farmer magazine. Monte and Bob Bottens are a father-son no-till team in Cambridge, Ill.
The UC Conservation Agriculture Systems Initiative challenges Californians to look 100 years, or even 500 years, into the future and imagine how todays common agricultural practices will have impacted the environment and society.
Congratulations to Joy Hollingsworth, a first-year graduate student working with Dr. Anil Shrestha in the Department of Plant Science at CSU Fresno, for having been awarded the 2012 Student Paper and Poster Contest Award from the California Weed Science Society at their recent annual meeting.
A diverse group of public and private sector agricultural professionals are joining the University of California to form the Conservation Agriculture Systems Initiative (CASI), an organization that will be formally launched at a public meeting Jan. 27 in Clovis, Calif.
