- Author: Konrad Mathesius
This year, nitrogen is expensive and wheat is worth a lot of money. Now is a good time to optimize your N fertilizer management strategies.
Join us for any one of a series of workshops focusing on the use and application of the UC Small Grains Nitrogen Fertilizer Management Webtool in tandem with a N-rich reference zone and soil nitrate quick test information. The seminars are geared toward CCAs, soil labs, and other industry crop consultants, but growers, other ag-industry folks, and members of the public are of course welcome to join.
So far, we have several dates for seminars coming up in different parts of California.
Yolo County: Time: Tuesday, October 18th, 9 a.m. to Noon
Location: Norton Hall, UCCE/ Ag Commissioner Building
70 Cottonwood St. Woodland, CA 95695
Tulare County: Time: Tuesday, November 1st, 9 a.m. to Noon
Location: Tulare County Ag Commissioner Building
4437 Laspina St. Tulare, CA 93274
Tulelake: Time: Thursday, November 3rd, 9 a.m. to Noon
Location: UC Intermountain Research and Information Center
2816 Havlina Rd. Tulelake, CA 96134
San Joaquin County (CANCELED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE):
Location: Mokelume Classroom, San Joaquin Ag Center
2101 E Earhart Ave #100, Stockton, CA 95206
2-3 hours of CCA credits are pending
2-3 hours of CURES credits are pending
- Author: Konrad Mathesius
Soils of the Southern Sacramento Valley Field Tour
Thursday October 12, 2017 8 a.m.-12.15 p.m.
Rominger Brothers' and Triad Farms
3.0 CCA Credits Pending
Rominger Brothers Ranch 26981 Cty Rd. 29, Winters, CA 95694
7:45-8:00 a.m. Registration, Coffee, Donuts
8:00 a.m. Introduction and Plans for the day
8:10 a.m. Pedology of Yolo County
Toby O'Geen, Soil Resource Specialist in Cooperative Extension
8:30 a.m. Pit 1: Corning gravelly loam pit description and texture-by-feel demonstration
9:30 a.m. Pit 2: Capay clay pit description and calculating soil water holding capacity
Konrad Mathesius, UCCE Agronomy Advisor, Sacramento, Solano and Yolo counties
10:30 a.m. Caravan to Pit 3,
Triad Farms, 9075 Old Davis Rd. 95620
11:15 a.m. Pit 3: Yolo loam pit description and discussion of some of the limitations/
mitigations associated with other common soil series in the valley
Konrad Mathesius, UCCE Agronomy Advisor, Sacramento, Solano and Yolo
counties
12:15 p.m. Adjourn
Soil Field Day Agenda 2017
- Author: Stephanie Larson
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At the request of CCA, the California Franchise Tax Board (FTB) has taken steps to align California's Tax provisions with those of the federal government, extending the period ranchers have to replace livestock using deferred taxable gains resulting from the sale of livestock due to drought.
Under federal and state law ranchers can defer taxable gains associated with the sale of breeding stock due to drought and in turn use those funds, which should have been otherwise paid to the national and state treasuries, to repurchase breeding stock once the drought ends.
Under § 1033 (e) of the Internal Revenue Code and § 24949.1 of the California Revenue and Taxation Code ranchers typically must use taxable gains previously deferred within four years at the end of a drought to repurchase breeding stock. The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) has the authority to extend the replacement period if a drought continues, however.
An Announcement was issued by the IRS in October to extend the beginning of the four-year replacement period by another year due to continuing drought conditions. Ranchers operating in all 58 California counties are currently eligible for the extension. The recent announcement by the FTB makes it clear that California will follow the timeline set by the IRS to use deferred taxable gains to replace breeding stock.
The IRS determines the drought status of each county assessed using the U.S. Drought monitor that is published weekly by the National Drought Mitigation Center at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln. Ranchers operating in counties and those adjacent that have been declared in extreme, exceptional or severe drought at some point during the tax year are eligible to defer taxable gains. Similarly, the IRS determines a drought has ended for a county when a county has gone a year without being declared in extreme, exceptional or severe drought.
Producers can also exercise the use of § 451 (e) of the Internal Revenue Code which allows ranchers to postpone any gain associated with the sale of livestock due to drought to the next tax year. According to the FTB, § 451 (e) can also be used for your state tax return. Additional criteria must also be met to utilize either § 1033(e) or § 451(e).
If you believe these provisions may help you in reducing your tax liability at the state or federal level, CCA strongly advises you to speak directly with your tax accountant or attorney to determine your specific eligibility. Additional information and eligibility requirements for both drought provisions can be found on the National Cattlemen's Beef Asso fact sheet.
![Beef cow Beef cow](/blogs/blogcore/blogfiles/27130.jpg)
- Author: Ben Faber
California Cherimoya Association Annual Meeting
10 AM, Sunday, April 13, 2014
The Annual Meeting will be held at Hanson Agricultural Center (formerly Faulkner Farms) on the corner of Briggs Rd. and Telephone Rd. in Santa Paula. (14292 W. Telegraph Rd., Santa Paula.) Parking is on Briggs Rd, around the corner
Annual Meeting Admission will be $20. Admission includes:
1. BBQ lunch catered by Sparky's 2. 1 year CCA membership
We need payment by Thursday, April 10, so we know how many meals to order.
Send payment in check, money order, or wampum, (please no Bitcoin) to: Dario Grossberger, 6301 Worth Way, Camarillo, CA 93012. Payment can also be made by PayPal to dario@earthlink.net.
Meeting Agenda
9:30 to 10 AM. Arrival and Registration.
10 to 10:15 AM. CCA Business
10:15 to 11:15 AM. Nino Cupaiuolo and Ben Faber will discuss cherimoya pollination.
For good yields and quality cherimoya in California must be hand pollinated. Ben Faber is a UC Cooperative Extension Farm Advisor who for many years has had an interest in cherimoya and has supported the efforts of the CCA. He visited Spain recently and discussed with researchers their work on pruning cherimoya as a way of controlling time of blooming, and therefore also time of harvest.
Nino Cupaiuolo has been a cherimoya grower and CCA member and Officer for many years. He will discuss his pollination procedures and observations made from pollination done last Summer.
11:15 to 11:45 PM. Dario Grossberger will describe efforts to produce a seedless cherimoya
It's not possible to eat a cherimoya and not wonder how one might develop a variety without seeds. Dario Grossberger is a cherimoya grower and current CCA President. There are indeed such efforts under way, and Dario will make a summary of current progress with the seedless cherimoya
11:45 to 12:30 PM. BBQ Lunch catered by Sparky's.
12:30 to 1:30 PM. Scott Van Der Kar will discuss cherimoya pruning
Cherimoya pruning is essential each year to improve cherimoya yield and quality. Scott Van Der Kar is a cherimoya grower, CCA member and Officer, and past CCA President. He will describe how he prunes cherimoya trees.
1:30 to 2 PM. Raj Desai and Dario Grossberger will describe 21 varieties of cherimoya from Spain
Fruit varieties are always of utmost importance to all fruit. California has developed a set of varieties, most of which are in the collection in Irvine. However, Spain made a major effort, and amassed more than 300 varieties in their collection. They agreed to send 21 of these varieties, selected as the most promising, to California for evaluation. Raj Desai, a cherimoya grower, and Dario, each planted an exemplar of each of these varieties in their orchards. They will describe what they have observed to date on the performance of these varieties.
![cherimoya cherimoya](/blogs/blogcore/blogfiles/21240.jpg)