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South Sacramento Valley Winter Almond Meeting Stagehands Theater, Colusa County Fairgrounds, Colusa, CA February 5, 2015 8am - 12pm...

Tomato Production Meeting Recap New Position Announced for the Sacramento Valley Notes on Current Wheat Crop Meeting Announcements Crop Pollination Workshop...

CASI farmer members, Michael and Adam Crowell of Turlock, Darrell Cordova of Denair, and Scott Schmidt of Five Points, along with Jeff Mitchell, hosted Amelie Gaudin, the new professor of Agroecology in the Department of Plant Sciences at UC Davis at their farms on January 23, 2015 to share with her...

When the week is about butterflies instead of guerrilla attacks, murderous rampages, measles outbreaks, and deflated footballs, it's a good week. Butterflies draw smiles instead of scowls, pleasure instead of pain, glee instead of grief. So, here's Part 1 of the good news.

From Sam: Clark Labs is shipping their new software: TerrSet. They say: TerrSet - a new name, a new concept and a wealth of advances. Clark Labs is pleased to announce that the TerrSet software is now shipping.

From Live Science. Two new maps released Jan. 16 considerably improve estimates of the amount of land farmed in the world one map reveals the world's agricultural lands to a resolution of 1 kilometer, and the other provides the first look at the sizes of the fields being used for agriculture.

Where, oh where, is that first bumble bee of the year? It's about this time of the year when the queen black-tailed bumble bee, Bombus melanopygus, and the queen yellow-faced bumble bee, Bombus vosnesenskii, emerge.

Included is the Home Ec Review entry form, schedule of events, rules, and scoresheets. Entry deadline is February 13th to the 4-H Office.

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A local Santa Barbara backyard grower has been experimenting with many different apple varieties and has found some unusual success at growing a wide variety of them that according to their published chilling hours requirements should not do well in Southern California.