In August 2023, California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) confirmed the presence of a new wolf pack in Tulare County. CDFW offers a compensation program to reimburse ranchers for livestock depredations and for new practices implemented to avoid depredation, such as range riding, turbo fladry, and installing game cameras. Learn more about the Compensation Program here.
USDA Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) to Protect Working Grasslands
The CRP is open for continuous enrollment. Enrolled lands earn rent from USDA in exchange for reducing certain uses. Find out more about the 2023 Grasslands CRP enrollment here, or read the Continuous CRP program factsheet here.
Healthy Soils Program
CDFA's Healthy Soils Program (HSP) offers incentives and financial support for agricultural management practices that sustain healthy soils and increase or maintain carbon storage in soils. More information on this initiative can be found here.
Amber Butland, our local Climate Smart Ag expert, can help with applications to HSP and other state programs.
You can read more about soil health on rangelands and pastures here.
As of April 1, 2017, there are new disease traceability/tagging and trichomoniasis (trich) testing requirements in California.
CDFA has summarized the changes in their April newsletter, which you can download here.
Research and information relating to livestock, range and natural resource management.
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Updates on recent past webinars, and other online resources that are currently available or coming soon, such as: Prescribed Fire Sheep and Cattle Markets (online presentations June 16 and June 17) Survey about impacts of COVID-19 Download the PDF to read more!...
** UPDATE ** the address for McKenzie Preserve is 22477 Auberry Rd and was mis-printed in the first version of this newsletter. In this issue: News Briefs E. coli shedding Ground squirrel grazing Rangeland Weed Management Workshop, May 11, 2019, offering 3.
In this Supplement: Free Webinar on February 29: learn about the California Rancher Sustainability Assessment Beef Cattle Health Webinar Series, Tuesdays in February New UC Poultry Health App needs early users USDA NAHMS Sheep Study 2024...
In this issue: -Poultry workshop recording available -Neonatal Beef Calf workshop -Lambing School -California Rancher Sustainability Assessment module: Succession Planning...
