In this issue:

• Covid-19 and UC Cooperative Extension
• Direct Marketing - Challenges & Opportunities
• Does Direct Marketing Add Value to Livestock?
• USDA Announces Online Portal for CFAP Applications
• USDA Declares Drought Disaster
• Sierra Harvest Offering 2020 Ag Skills Courses
• Public Safety Power Shutoff Needs Assessment
• Webinar and Podcast Schedule

If you missed any of the October webinars, or if you would simply like to go back and review what you learned, I’ve loaded the videos of each session onto my YouTube channel! You can simply click the links attached to watch the webinars!

In this issue:

• COVID-19 updates
• Coronaviruses in human and animal health
• To Fertilize or Not to Fertilize? That is the Question!
• Moderate drought persists in Northern California
• CA Dept of Fish and Wildlife Launches Human-Wildlife Conflict Website
• Virtual Meetings!

In this issue: 

• Interested in Learning about using Prescribed Fire for Rangeland Improvement?
• After the Fire: Resources for Landowners and Land Managers Impacted by the Mosquito Fire
  • Evaluating burn severity
  • Tree mortality
  • Smoke/ash impacts on forage and livestock health
  • Rangeland seeding
  • Infrastructure recovery
• Workshop Schedule. Save the Date!
• Webinar & Social Media links!

The Placer Resource Conservation District is hosting a horse property workshop in Auburn on December 4.

Details attached!

Thank you.

Our next round of Shepherd Skills Workshops will kick off with a Sheep Business Basics webinar on December 8!
We’ll also be offering webinars and field days on small ruminant health and husbandry, pasture lambing systems, and livestock guardian dogs!

Sign up for one or for all!

And have a wonderful Thanksgiving!

Dan Macon, Livestock and Natural Resources Advisor
UCCE – Placer-Nevada-Sutter-Yuba
County Director – UCCE – Placer-Nevada
(530) 889-7385

dmacon@ucanr.edu

http://ucanr.edu/sites/Livestock/

March 13-15, 2021

In this issue:

• Now is the Time to Consider Irrigated Pasture Renovations
• Turns Out - We are in a Drought!
• More Drought Information
• Drought Planning Decision Support Tool - Volunteers Needed!
• Shepherding Fire: Lessons from our Prescribed Fire on Working Landscapes Workshop
• A Few Tips for Hiring a Targeted Grazing Contractor
• CDFA Offers Free RFID Cattle Ear Tags
• Podcast & Social Media

In this issue:

• Placer and Nevada Offices Reopening
• More than Simply Surviving
• Help us Pilot-Test a New Drought Decision Support Tool
• Managing Irrigated Pasture during Drought
• Getting our Ranches Ready for Fire Season
• Disaster Livestock Access Pass Program in the Works for the Foothills
• A Final Word...
• Upcoming Workshops

In this issue:

• A Rancher's Fire Safe Council for the Foothills
• More on Blue Oaks
• Wildfire Ash on Forage and in Stock Water
• Round 2: More Public Safety Power Shut-offs
• Livestock Protection Tools - Operation Size Matters!
• October Webinars
• Podcast & Social Media