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Show Feed Clinic at Round Up Feed & Pet Supply Saturday, May 18, 2019 See attached flyer (Not a UC Event)...

Thanks to the abundance of rain received this past winter and spring, your landscape may be like mine, flourishing with vegetation that I did not plant.

April 2, 2019 Two irrigation experts, Alex Flores of Yardney Water Filtration Systems in Riverside, CA, and Moises Luna of Agrivalley Company in Fresno, CA visited the longstanding NRI Project field in Five Points on April 2, 2019 to discuss with CASI's Jeff Mitchell efforts to upgrade the NRI field...

April 1, 2019 UC soil physics professors, Teamrat Ghezzehei of UC Merced and Jan Hopmans of UC Davis, along with UCM graduate students Samuel Araya and Jennifer Alvarez, joined CASI's Jeff Mitchell for a visit and research planning meeting at the NRI Project field in Five Points, CA where they are w...

Dear Colleagues: UC is running the biennial Staff Engagement Survey to learn more about non-represented (policy-covered) staff impressions about working at the university.

Thanks to the abundance of rain received this past winter and spring, your landscape may be like mine, flourishing with vegetation that I did not plant.

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Petty Ranch, a story of cover crops in Ventura County. All of the lemon trees were dying. Sigh. Another distressing story about agriculture in the face of climate change, rising land values, difficult economies, and soil degradation.

March 26, 2019 A very good group of folks took part in a lively, engaging and very productive visit to Scott and Brian Park's farm in Meridian, CA on March 26, 2019 to push forward ideas and innovations for equipment to help address challenges of achieving reduced disturbance organic production syst...