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!