- Author: Pamela S Kan-Rice
The 2024 California Plant and Soil Conference will be held Feb. 6-7 at the DoubleTree Hotel in Fresno. The conference is organized by the California Chapter of the American Society of Agronomy and UC Cooperative Extension.
This year's conference will cover the following topics:
- Are we ready? Adapting agronomy to an uncertain future
- Precision agriculture
- Nutrient management
- Micronutrients
- Animal-plant systems management
- Soil management
- California IPM toolbox
- Pesticide resistance
- Bees, pollinators
- Groundwater...
- Author: Pamela Kan-Rice
The Foundation for Food & Agriculture Research has awarded a $10 million grant to support U.S. dairy's Net Zero Initiative as a critical on-farm pathway to advance the industrywide 2050 Environmental Stewardship Goals set through the Innovation Center for U.S. Dairy.
In California, UC Davis and UC Agriculture and Natural Resources scientists will collaborate on the nationwide project addressing carbon sequestration, soil health and nitrogen management.
"The Foundation for Food and Agricultural Research grant in partnership with Soil Health Institute and Dairy Research Institute are funding research that will positively impact the future of...