- Author: Michael D Cahn
- Author: Richard Smith
2018 UCCE Irrigation and Nutrient Management Meeting
Monterey County Agricultural Center
1432 Abbott Street, Salinas, CA
Tuesday, February 13
7:45 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
7:45 Registration (Free)
8:00 Update on the Ag Order for the Central Coast.
Chris Rose, Senior Environmental Scientist, Irrigated Lands Regulatory Program Manager, Central Coast Water Board
8:30 Soil nitrogen dynamics in long-season vegetable crops
Richard Smith, Vegetable Crops Farm Advisor, Monterey County
9:00 Fall application of high C:N ratio amendments to immobilize soil nitrate
Joji Muramoto, Associate Researcher, Dept. of Environmental Studies, UCSC
9:30 On-farm trials evaluating the fertilizer value of nitrate in irrigation water
Michael Cahn, Irrigation and Water Resources Advisor, Monterey County
10:00 Break
10:30 On-farm management practices for mitigating insecticides in irrigation run-off
Laura McCalla, Department of Environmental Toxicology, UCD, Granite Canyon Laboratory
11:00 Microbial food safety risks of reusing tail water for production of leafy greens
Anne-laure Moyne, Staff Research Associate, Food Science and Technology Dept., UCD
11:30 Update on seawater intrusion in the Salinas Valley Aquifer
Howard Franklin, Senior Hydrologist, Monterey County Water Resources Agency.
12:00 Conclusion and Pizza Lunch
3.5 CCA & 0.5 DPR continuing education credits have been requested
- Author: Michael D Cahn, Ph.D.
Monterey County Agricultural Center
1432 Abbott Street, Salinas, CA
Thursday, February 23
7:45 a.m. to 12:30 p.m
3.5 CCA Continuing Education Units
7:45 Registration
8:00 Approaches for complying with water quality regulations, Tim Hartz, Vegetable Specialist, UCD
8:30 CropManage update, Michael Cahn, Irrigation and Water Resources Advisor, Monterey County
9:00 ET scheduling of romaine lettuce, Lee Johnson, Senior Research Scientist, CSUMB/NASA
9:30 Organic fertilizer evaluations, Richard Smith, Vegetable Crops Farm Advisor, Monterey County
10:00 Break
10:30 Distribution uniformity evaluations of irrigation systems, Gerry Spinelli, Agricultural Technical Specialist, RCD Santa Cruz Co.
11:00 Evaluating crop nitrogen status – tissue and soil testing, Tim Hartz, Vegetable Specialist, UCD
11:30 Hydrology of the Salinas Valley, Howard Franklin, Senior Hydrologist, Monterey County Water Resources Agency
12:00 Conclusion and Pizza Lunch
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- Author: Michael D Cahn, Ph.D.
Tomorrow we will host the 2016 UC Irrigation and Nutrient Meeting at the Agricultural Center in Salinas CA. We also have a field meeting following a pizza lunch to discuss the use of cover crops in strawberries. 4.5 hours of Certified Crop Adviser educational credits will also be available. This year we will include a panel discussion about how growers are implementing practices to better manage water and nitrogen fertilizer as well as a presentation on the sustainable groundwater management act. Please see the agenda below:
2016 Irrigation and Nutrient Management Meeting
Agricultural Center 1432 Abbott Street, Salinas, CA
Wednesday, February 17
7:45 a.m. to 1:45 p.m.
4.5 CCA Credits applied for
7:45 Registration
8:00 Summary of N use of crops in Region 3 and current water quality regulations
Chris Rose, Central Coast Regional Water Quality Control Board
8:30 Fertilizer value of N in irrigation water
Michael Cahn, Irrigation and Water Resources Farm Advisor, Monterey County
9:00 Field studies on N and water management (broccoli and spinach)
Richard Smith, Vegetable Crops Farm Advisor, Monterey County
9:30 Denitrification beds for removing nitrate from tile water
Tim Hartz, Vegetable Specialist, UCD
10:00 Break
10:30 Potential for increasing groundwater recharge on agricultural land
Toby O'Geen, Soil Specialist, Dept of Land, Air and Water Resources, UCD
11:00 Groundwater Sustainability Act – Where are we headed in Monterey County
Stephanie Hastings: Brownstein, Hyatt, Farber and Schreck Law Firm
11:30 Panel discussion on Grower implementation of BMP's
Salvador Montes, Christensen and Giannini; Manual Mercado, River Valley Farms;
Eric Morgan, Morgan Consulting
12:00 Conclusion and Pizza Lunch
Afternoon Session:
12:45 Field trip to see conservation practices
1:45 Conclusion
- Author: Michael D Cahn
CropManage Workshop: Hands-on training
Monterey County Agricultural Center Conference Room
1432 Abbott St, Salinas CA 93901
Thursday, April 2nd 2015
(8:30 am – 12 pm)
We will offer a hands-on training to learn in depth about the features of CropManage, a free online decision support tool for water and nutrient management of coastal crops. In addition to head and romaine lettuce, CropManage now supports broccoli, cauliflower, cabbage, and strawberries.
Considering that the drought is continuing into a 4th year, and nutrient management continues to be linked to water quality regulations, efficiently using water and nitrogen fertilizer is a high priority for Central Coast growers. CropManage can play an important role in providing quick decision support on water and nutrient management on a field-by-field basis.
This training will provide an opportunity to learn how to use CropManage for improving the efficiency of your farming operations or for adding value to your consulting services. We will provide in depth hands-on training so that you can learn step-by-step how to navigate and use CropManage for assisting with fertilizer and water management decisions and record keeping. Wi-Fi internet access is available at our conference room so please bring a laptop or tablet computer so that you can follow along as we tour through the features of the software. There should be sufficient time to answer questions as we cover the following topics:
Agenda:
8:30 – 9:00 Registration and Refreshments
9:00 – 9:30 Introduction and update on CropManage
9:30-10:15 Getting started with CropManage
10:15 (Break)
10:30 – 11:15 Strategies for using CropManage for decision support and record keeping
11:15- 11:45 Advanced features and interfacing sensors with CropManage
11:45-12:00 Discussion of new features or changes needed.
To keep the group size manageable so that we can provide individual help, we would like to limit the workshop to 30 participants. If you have attended previous workshops and or feel proficient in using the on-line tool, then you are welcome to just attend the second half of the workshop (10:30-12 pm). Whether or not you plan to attend the entire or part of the workshop, please RSVP in advance by sending an email to larriaga@ucdavis.edu or mdcahn@ucdavis.edu with the subject heading “CropManage workshop” and let us know the number of participants in your group. We will email you a confirmation. Thank you, and I hope to see you soon.
Respectfully,
Michael Cahn, Irrigation and Water Resources Advisor
Certified Crop Adviser CEU hours requested (1.5 hrs irrigation management, 1.5 hrs nutrient management)
- Author: Michael D Cahn
If you missed the 2015 Irrigation and Nutrient Meeting or you would like to review the presentations, you can download pdf versions of the powerpoint files from the UCCE Monterey County Website (http://cemonterey.ucanr.edu). The direct link to the presentations is:
http://cemonterey.ucanr.edu/Vegetable_Crops/2015_Irrigation_-_Nutrient_Management_Meeting_
We want to thank all of you who attended for your participation and for the many constructive comments that we received verbally and through the evaluation surveys. Let us know of any topics that you would like us to address in the next irrigation and nutrient management meeting or ways to improve the meeting.
If you are interested to learn more about CropManage for improving irrigation and nutrient management, I plan to host a hands-on training on using this on-line decision support tool on April 2nd. I will send out a formal announcement in the upcoming weeks.