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UC Pest Management Guidelines (UC Statewide IPM Project Web Site)
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- Almonds
  Double Line Drip Irrigation. Southern San Joaquin Valley. 2016 PDF
- Almonds
  Flood Irrigated. San Joaquin Valley North. 2011. PDF
- Almonds
  Micro-sprinkler. San Joaquin Valley North. 2016. PDF
- Olive Oil
  Super High Density. San Joaquin Valley 2007. PDF
- Olives - San Joaquin Valley. 2005 PDF
- Pecans - Sacramento/San Joaquin Valley - 2005. PDF
- Pistachios
  Low Volume Irrigation - San Joaquin Valley South. 2015. PDF
- Walnuts
  Late Leafing - Lateral Bearing. San Joaquin Valley North. 2017. PDF
- Walnuts
  Micro-Sprinkler Irrigation - San Joaquin Valley North. 2007 PDF

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The next generation: already agriculture champions

Four agriculture students from the Petaluma FFA are headed to the Royal Highland Livestock Show in Edinburgh, Scotland this June after taking first place in the Dairy Cattle Evaluation competition at the 85th National FFA Conference.

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GROWN LOCAL campaign launched and gaining momentum

Large yellow GROWN LOCAL Marin County signs are popping up at local farmers markets, calling to consumers on a mission to buy local food.

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Stanford study unlikely to slow momentum of Marin's organic food movement

Marin Independent Journal Marin IJ 09/2012 Members of Marin County's thriving organic food movement say they aren't overly concerned about fallout from a Stanford University study this month that challenged the health benefits of organic foods.

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Work to keep cattle away from creeks seeks to improve water quality in West Marin

Marin Independent Journal Marin IJ 09/2012 The Point Reyes National Seashore and West Marin ranchers are joining forces to build fences, crossings and other projects to keep cattle away from creeks in an effort to improve water quality.

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Go Ahead, Milk My Day

The New York Times The New York Times 10/2012 Buffalo mozzarella is the Great White Whale of American cheesemaking: a dream so exotic and powerful that it drives otherwise sensible people into ruinous monomaniacal quests.

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Fibershed on a mission to map California’s fiber supply and demand

Like a watershed, a fibershed is a region that supplies the necessary fiber for textile production in order to clothe or shelter a local population.

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Taking the Sting out of Stickers - 2/25/13

Monday, February 25, 2012, 9:00 - 11:30 a.m. Tomales Town Hall Taking the Sting our Stickers was a round table discussion on solutions for treating Woolly Distaff Thistle, Purple Star Thistle and other invasive plants in pasture and rangeland settings.

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Bay Area wheat makes a comeback

SF Gate The San Francisco Chronicle SF Gate 12/2012 When Jessica Prentice and a handful of friends were organizing the first Eat Local Challenge in 2005, encouraging people to eat food grown within 100 miles of where they live, she approached baker Eduardo Morell to make bread with flour grown by Fu...

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FoodWorks Finds New Markets for Local Growers

Edible Marin & Wine Country Edible Marin & Wine Country 08/12 In just over a year, the canning guru of Marin and Sonoma counties has almost outgrown the commercial kitchen space in San Rafael where she preserves the overabundance from many local farmswhether summers tomatoes, falls apples, winters l...

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Cowgirl Creamery's founders blend traits

SF Gate The San Francisco Chronicle SF Gate 12/2012 Knowing that Cowgirl Creamery's Sue Conley and Peggy Smith spend their days traveling the pastoral roads of West Marin dairy country, it's easy to imagine them as undergrads tooling around the country in the early 1970s.

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