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On farm energy use can be a major portion of the farm costs with significant impacts to the bottom line. In addition, there are increasing opportunities to develop renewable energy sources for farm power needs.
Marin UC Cooperative Extension holds workshops throughout the year to share information on practices that may strengthen or diversify your ag operation.
For small grain cultivation, storage, and processing fact sheets, access the: Small Grain Production Manual or its individual parts: Importance of small grain crops in California Growth and development of small grains Seedbed preparation, sowing, and residue management Fertilization Irrigation and w...
By Jim Wood Marin Magazine 11/2011 Two years ago, middle-aged Teddy Stray was fed up with the corporate life. I was tired of the constant traveling, he recalls. I wanted to stay closer to home; I wanted meaning in my life.
Looking to the past to see the future sounds a little hackneyed, but still rings true in some situations. Once every ranch in Marin had a dairy, hogs, and grew grains and feedstocks. Some had row crops of considerable significance for Marin in those times.
The Marshall Ranch, now the Thornton Ranch in Tomales, was settled in 1852. All kinds of agriculture typical of the Tomales area were practiced on this ranch over the years: farming, grazing, dairying, and forage production including hundreds of acres of grain.
Emmer wheat (Triticum dicoccum), also known as farro especially in Italy, is a low yielding, awned wheat. It was one of the first crops domesticated in the Near East. It was widely cultivated in the ancient world, but is now a relict crop in mountainous regions of Europe and Asia.
