- Author: Jeffrey P Mitchell
A detailed timeline of advances in tillage management in California has been prepared by a large group of CASI partners for possible publication in an upcoming article about the history of conservation agriculture in the state. This timeline includes achievements dating back to 1957 and through today. It is available here and if and when the article is published, we will post a link to the full report as soon as possible.
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- Author: Jeffrey P Mitchell
January 23, 2025
Cary Crum, longstanding CASI Workgroup member and consulting agronomist with Agritechnovation, out of Clovis, CA, recently spoke about his observations on increases in cover crop seed sales and acreage in the San Joaquin Valley.
The recording is available below.
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A group of four authors, Robert Willmott, Jennifer Valdez-Herrera, Jeff Mitchell, and Anil Shrestha, have published the article, Potential of Cover Crop Use and Termination with a Roller-Crimper in a
Strip-Till Silage Maize (Zea mays L.) Production System in the Central Valley of California, in the open-access journal, Agronomy, (Agronomy 2025, Volume 15, Issue 1, 132. A pdf copy is available here. This work was conducted by Robert Willmott as his MS thesis on the Fresno State campus and describes a multi-year study of using strip-tillage corn planting into rolled cover crops.
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- Author: Jeffrey P Mitchell
July 5, 2024
CASI's Jeff Mitchell was a "three-peater" July 5th on Tom Willey's "Down on the farm" radio program on KFCF's 88.1 FM station on July 5, 2024. He shared information from the recently published article, No-tillage, surface residue retention, and cover crops improved San Joaquin Valley soil health in the long term, that was published in the May 2024 issue of California Agriculture. Willey was a co-author on the work and he talked with Mitchell about how the work came about, what its study goals were, how it was conducted, and what its findings were. Willey's program airs every first Friday of the month and has a loyal following that includes a great diversity of folks who greatly enjoy his 'on the front porch' conversations with his guests. A video of the radio interview is available at the You Tube link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXoyBLlImUo

- Author: Jeffrey P Mitchell
CASI's Mitchell on MyAgLife podcast June 28, 2024
July 1, 2024
Jeff Mitchell, CASI member and Professor and Cropping Systems Cooperative Extension Specialist in the Department of Plant Sciences at the University of California, Davis, appeared in a 39-minute podcast with host Taylor Chalstrom on June 28, 2024 to talk about conservation agriculture in general and the recently-published article in California Agriculture on the 20-year study in Five Points, CA. The podcast is available at
https://spotifyanchor-web.app.link/e/JuQ7qakGSKb
You may need the podcast platform, Spotify, to listen to it.
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