What Does a Healthy Soil Do? Soil Aggregation: The Basis of Soil Health Enhancing Soil Health ReferencesSoil health is the continued capacity of soil to function as a vital living ecosystem that sustains plants, animals, and humans.
Mark Mason is the manager for Huntington Farms, a third-generation family business in the Salinas Valley, responsible for farming head and leaf lettuce, cauliflower, celery, and broccoli on 4000 acres of land in the Soledad-Salinas area. The fields are generally double cropped per year.
Nate Ray is the general manager of DeJager Farms Inc., responsible for producing forage feed for 8 different diaries with a total of 25,000 cows on 17,000 acres of land near Chowchilla.
The Muller Ranch (M Three Ranches), grows organic and conventionally managed tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers, sunflower, walnuts, almonds vine grapes, olives, alfalfa, squashes, millet, wheat, corn, safflower, canola, and garlic on several thousand acres in Yolo County, where Joe Muller & Sons, as the...
Paicines Ranch, located south of Hollister, has been operated since the mid-19th century and was purchased by Sallie Calhoun and Matt Christiano in 2001. It consists of 7,600 acres in total, which is divided between 570 acres of farmland and the rest grazing land.
John Teixeira farms 90 acres of land bordering the San Joaquin River in Firebaugh, California. The land has been certified organic since 1991. One field also carries biodynamic certification, which will soon extend to the entire farm.
Nutrient management is critical in increasing or maintaining crop yields on a single parcel of agricultural land. To meet crop needs throughout a growing season soil fertility must be consistently high, which can be attributed to the presence and availability of nutrients.
A collection of external online resources on: general management testing nutrient budgeting irrigation management fertilizer mangement cover crops soil organic matter agriculture, nutrient management and climate change View our videos from the 2015 Russell Ranch Field Day: Nitrogen through soil, spa...
