Cooperative Extension, Sutter-Yuba Counties

Agronomy Notes & Sacramento Valley Field Crops Newsletter

Sacramento Valley Field Crop Newsletter - March 2025

  • Hedgerows and Soil Health Assessments Field Day!
  • Hedgerow Project Update
  • Littleseed Canarygrass Becoming Difficult to Control in Small Grains
  • Weed Control in Alfalfa: Thinking about moving away from paraquat for winter annual weeds 

Sacramento Valley Field Crop Newsletter - July 2024

  • Project Summary: The Effect of Almond Shell Mulch Application on Established Alfalfa Fields
  • Managing rootknot nematodes in crop rotations
  • Milo (Gran Sorghum) Yield Performance in Three Locations in Central Valley
  • Upcoming Events!
  • Cover Crop Performance Summary 

Sacramento Valley Field Crops Newsletter - October 2023 

  • Organic Agriculture Workshop
  • Cover Crop Performance in the Sacramento Valley During a Wet Year
  • Cover Crops generate a Resource Rich Soil Environment for Soil Biota and Crop Roots

Sacramento Valley Field Crop Newsletter - July 2023

  • Climate-Smart Irrigation for Field Crops
  • Update on alfalfa weevil insecticide resistance: What is the situation, and what can be done?
  • Resources on the Economics of Cover Cropping in Annual Rotations
  • Best Management Practices for use of Propane Cannons (zon guns) in Production Agriculture
  • Grazing Cover Crops 

Sacramento Valley Field Crop Newsletter - December 2022

  • Nitrogen Management Seminar • Plant and Soil Conference
  • The Effect of Almond Shell Mulch on  Productivity of Established Alfalfa Fields
  • California Small Grain Variety Performance under Conditions of Drought and Nitrogen Stress
  • Development of New Alfalfa Products in Combination with Almond Hulls for Emerging Domestic and International Markets 

Sacramento Valley Field Crop Newsletter - July 2022

  • Nitrogen Uptake of Sunflowers Grown in the Sacramento Valley
  • Herbicide applications between cutting In Alfalfa, a cautionary tale
  • Soil Health in Alfalfa Receiving Full and Deficit Irrigation
  • Is vetch a friend or foe to livestock?
  • Cover Crops and Winter Weed Management: Considerations for Annual Rotations in Wet and Dry Years
  • Agronomic Crops Survey Results available online 

Sacramento Valley Field Crop Newsletter - January 2022

  • 2022 California Plant and Soil Conference
  • Sacramento Valley Cover Crop Tour
  • Soil Health and Cover Crops Field Day
  • N-Rich Reference Zones in Wheat: Case Study, Colusa County 2020-21
  • Winter Cover Crop Performance in a Drought Year

Sacramento Valley Field Crop Newsletter - August 2021

  • Pre-plant weed management followed by inseason control improved alfalfa stand and yield
  • Alfalfa Cost of Production Studies
  • New Resources Available for Managing Nitrogen in Small Grains Production
  • Poor control of common chickweed with ALS-inhibitor herbicides reported in S. San Joaquin Valley
  • Using Drones for Summer Worm Control in Alfalfa Hay
  • Pests in Hemp
  • Herbicide Damage in Hemp Publication 

Sacramento Valley Field Crop Newsletter - February 2021

  • Cover Crop Variety Trial Locations in the Sacrametno Valley
  • Virtual Field DaySave the Date!
  • Cover Cropping in Dry Years in California: Observations from 20 Years in the Field with Tom Johnson from Kamprath Seed 

Sacramento Valley Field Crop Newsletter - September 2020

  • Equipment to Manage Cover Crops in Annual Rotations
  • Winter Cover Crop Performance in the Sacramento Valley
  • Healthy Soils Demonstration Project Results: Winter Cover Crops in Annual Rotations 

Sacramento Valley Field Crop Newsletter - May 2020

  • New Soil Health YouTube Channel
  • Western Cover Crop Survey 

Sacramento Valley Field Crop Newsletter - December 2019

  • Save the Date! Healthy Soils and Field Crop Meeting
  • Organic Amendment Management
  • Using Compost
  • Cool beans!
  • Alfalfa Hay
  • Upcoming Meeting 

Sacramento Valley Field Crop Newsletter - March 2019

  • Good Luck to Mariano Galla!
  • Meeting Announcements
  • New restrictions for chlorpyrifos (e.g. Lorsban) use in alfalfa in California
  • Spotlight on UC Cooperative Extension Resources
  • With SWEEP and HSP Grant deadlines approaching, help is available
  • Soil Sampling: A Review and Resources
  • Weed control in dry bean production
  • Vegetated filter strips for water quality protection on farms

Sacramento Valley Field Crop Newsletter - Winter 2018

  • Managing Weevils in Alfalfa Hay Production
  • Strategies to Reduce Disease on Your Farm
  • Accurate Diagnosis is Necessary for Disease Management
  • Concepts in Soil Nitrate Management in Wheat and Other Winter Grasses
  • Italian Ryegrass Management in Sacramento Valley Wheat
  • Research Update: Preventing Rodent Damage to Subsurface Drip Irrigation in Cracking Clay Soils
  • UC Resources

Sacramento Valley Field Crop Newsletter - Fall 2018

  • 48th California Alfalfa and Forage Symposium
  • Soil Health and Cover Crop Field Day
  • Newly revised UC ANR Cost and Return Study for Hybrid Sunflower Seed Production
  • Newly revised UC IPM Guidelines for Dry Beans
  • Cover Crop Management in Annual Farming Systems
  • New oat hay varieties show disease resistance and frost avoidance
  • Few tips for weed management in Garbanzo beans
  • Species on concern: Herbicide Resistant Italian Ryegrass
  • What to do with those tough-to- control perennial weeds in established alfalfa

Sacramento Valley Field Crop Newsletter - Summer 2018

  • Post emergent weed control management in beans
  • UC Davis Dry Bean Field Day
  • UC IPM Guidelines for Dry Beans and Abiotic Disorders
  • Avoiding and Managing Soil Compaction
  • Cover Crop and Soil Health Project Coming Soon!
  • Spider Mites in Corn
  • Disease issues in garbanzo production
  • New Cost and Return Study for Garbanzo Beans

Sacramento Valley Field Crop Newsletter - Fall 2017

  • Upcoming Meetings
  • Results: Statewide 2017 Small Grain Variety Trials
  • Southern Blight Cliff Notes - 2017
  • Destroying weed seed at harvest: seed destroying technology to be tested in the Sacramento Valley

Sacramento Valley Field Crop Newsletter - August 2017

  • New Agronomy Advisor!
  • New UCCE Resources
  • Keep an eye out!
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