- Author: Konrad Mathesius
- Editor: Mark Lundy
Half the battle in learning and development is knowing what you don't know. I have been collecting a running list of different ag-related tools and technologies that I think growers, managers, and crop consultants could benefit from. Below are some notable tools:
Using Google Sheets to Manage Tasks Among Ag Teams:
https://www.google.com/sheets/about/
Google sheets is an incredibly simple and flexible tool, basically an excel spreadsheet that is housed in the cloud (online). This means that multiple people can be given access to it for organizational purposes to create a live project board that can guide field operations.
For example,...
- Author: Sarah E Light
Please join us for a Cover Crop Field Day and “Open Farm” Event to be held in Meridian at Park Farming Organics on March 26th. Please feel free to share with anyone who may be interested.
The half of the event (9-10:30 am) will be a field day with presentations and discussion on a variety of topics related to cover crops and soil health management. Ten plots with different cover crop species are planted in the field for demonstration. Presenters include:
- Sarah Light, UCCE – Research Updates: Cover Crop Field Trails in Annual Rotations in the Sacramento Valley
- Margaret Smither-Kopperl, USDA Plant Materials Center – Soil Biodiversity and Soil Health...