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Diversified Hanford, CA farmer, Eddie Sajian is featured in upcoming documentary video on innovative reduced disturbance production
Conservation Agriculture: Article

Documentary video on no-tillage in California being prepared

July 1, 2023
By Jeffrey P Mitchell
Documentary video on no-tillage in California being prepared July 1, 2023 A video documentary featuring five of the CA and AZ farmers who have been part of the USDA NRCS Conservation Innovation Grant project, "No-till network for California," is in the final stages of production and will be released...
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Slide of soil health test kit materials given to network farmer participants CIG NRCS State No-till 2022
Conservation Agriculture: Article

Soil health monitoring conducted at SJV reduced disturbance and cover cropped fields!

July 1, 2023
By Jeffrey P Mitchell
Soil health monitoring conducted at SJV reduced disturbance and cover cropped fields! As part of the USDA NRCS Conservation Innovation Grant, Creating a no-till network in California, extensive baseline soil sampling has now been done at several San Joaquin Valley farms that are employing the soil h...
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A caterpillar featured on the Bug Squad blog's pictorial series that won an international award. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Bug Squad: Article

Communicators Win International Awards

June 30, 2023
By Kathy Keatley Garvey
Congrats to the University of California recipients of awards from the Association for Communication Excellence (ACE), an international association of communicators, educators and information technologists who focus on communicating research-based information.
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Numerous slender, blackish gray insects congregating on a seed pod.
Pests in the Urban Landscape: Article

Invasion of the False Chinch Bug

June 30, 2023
By Lauren Fordyce
The cool, wet spring that California has experienced this year comes with many benefits, but also some drawbacks. For the false chinch bug, a small insect commonly found in grassy or weedy areas, this year's weather may result in a population boom.
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avocado irrigation

Figuring Fertigation

June 30, 2023
By Ben A Faber
Read All About It Two Pubs that Discuss the INs and OUts of Fertigation Fertigation with Microirrigation Publication Number: 21620 Copyright Date: 2006 Length: 49 pp. ISBN-13: 978-1-879906-79-2 Author: BLAINE HANSON $25.
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Capture Woolf cutter February 2, 2022
Conservation Agriculture: Article

Strip-till cover crop tomato crop trialed in Huron, CA, February 2, 2022

June 30, 2023
By Jeffrey P Mitchell
Strip-till cover crop tomato crop trialed in Huron, CA, February 2, 2022 A unique - dare we say - "never before attempted in the region," effort to precede strip-tilled tomatoes with a mowed vigorous winter cover crop was conducted in one of the fieldsofWoolf Enterprises, a major tomato and other ro...
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