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Sample Costs for a 50-Head Organic Cow-Calf Operation in the North Coa...
Full title:Sample Costs for a 50-Head Organic Cow-Calf Operation in the North Coast Region of California (Mendocino and Lake Counties). Based on a 50-head cow-calf operation in Mendocino County, but applicable to organic operations elsewhere, too.
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Growing Tomatoes in the Home Garden
Tomatoes are among the most popular vegetables grown in home gardens. They also prompt frequent cultural and pest management questions; many problems can be avoided by planting disease-resistant varieties that are well adapted for your growing area.
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Pumpkin Production in California
Basic information for commercial growers, including climatic requirements, varieties, planting, fertilization, harvest, and marketing channels.
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Watermelon Production in California
Basic information for commercial growers, including climatic requirements, varieties, planting, fertilization, harvest, and marketing channels.
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Artichoke Production in California
Basic information for commercial growers, including climatic requirements, varieties, planting, fertilization, harvest, and marketing channels.
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Spinach Production in California
Basic information for commercial growers, including climatic requirements, varieties, planting, fertilization, harvest, and marketing channels.
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Cabbage Production in California
Basic information for commercial growers, including climatic requirements, varieties, planting, fertilization, harvest, and marketing channels.
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Sweet Potato Production in California
Basic information for commercial growers, including climatic requirements, varieties, planting, fertilization, harvest, and marketing channels.
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Safe Methods of Canning Vegetables
A guide to methods and equipment for safe canning of foods at home.
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Erodibility of Agricultural Soils, with Examples in Lake and Mendocino...
Soil erosion is a major cause of water quality degradation. Included is an introduction to the properties of soil that influence its erodibility and an explanation of soil properties that you can manage to minimize erosion.
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Small Grain Production Manual (complete)
This download includes all 14 parts of the Small Grain Production Manual. |
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Chile Pepper Production in California
Basic information for commercial growers, including climatic requirements, varieties, planting, fertilization, harvest, and marketing channels.
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Vegetable Diseases Caused by Soilborne Pathogens
Pathogens in the soil can seriously curtail vegetable crop production. Learn how to identify and control them and keep your crop disease-free.
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Reducing Runoff from Irrigated Lands: Causes and Management of Runoff ...
Minimizing runoff from surface irrigation is a balance between adequate irrigation and tailwater runoff. This publication discusses how surface runoff can occur and management methods that can minimize the amount of water leaving a property.
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Broccoli Production in California
Basic information for commercial growers, including climatic requirements, varieties, planting, fertilization, harvest, and marketing channels.
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Sclerotinia Stem Rot of Garbanzos
Sclerotinia rot (white mold) is a fungal disease of garbanzos and other crops in California. While much remains unknown about Sclerotinia rot, this publication will help you identify it and manage its severity and spread.
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Carrot Production in California
Basic information for commercial growers, including climatic requirements, varieties, planting, fertilization, harvest, and marketing channels.
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Celery Production in California
Basic information for commercial growers, including climatic requirements, varieties, planting, fertilization, harvest, and marketing channels.
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Green Onion Production in California
Basic information for commercial growers, including climatic requirements, varieties, planting, fertilization, harvest, and marketing channels.
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Asparagus Production in California
Basic information for commercial growers, including climatic requirements, varieties, planting, fertilization, harvest, and marketing channels.
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Leaf Lettuce Production in California
Basic information for commercial growers, including climatic requirements, varieties, planting, fertilization, harvest, and marketing channels.
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Cilantro Production in California
Basic information for commercial growers, including climatic requirements, varieties, planting, fertilization, harvest, and marketing channels.
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Iceberg Lettuce Production in California
Basic information for commercial growers, including climatic requirements, varieties, planting, fertilization, harvest, and marketing channels.
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Cauliflower Production in California
Basic information for commercial growers, including climatic requirements, varieties, planting, fertilization, harvest, and marketing channels.
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Fresh-Market Bulb Onion Production in California
Basic information for commercial growers, including climatic requirements, varieties, planting, fertilization, harvest, and marketing channels.
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Flower Flies (Syrphidae) and Other Biological Control Agents for Aphid...
Flower flies (sometimes known as hoverflies) are effective predators against aphids in California vegetable fields. Learn to recognize these aphid eaters and encourage them to help with your pest management. Many color photographs.
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Olives: Safe Methods for Home Pickling
The health benefits of olive oil are also bringing olives into the spotlight. Learn how to make your own delicious olives at home using water, salt, oil or lye curing methods as well as tips on how to select and store fresh olives.
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Onion Seed Production in California
An overview of production including growth cycle and climactic needs, varieties, planting, irrigation, harvesting and drying, and postharvest handling and storage.
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Fresh-Market Tomato Production in California
California farmers grow more than 550,000 tons of fresh-market tomatoes a year. This publication gives you concise information on culture, pest management, and marketing for this important crop.
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Sample Costs for a 500-Head Dairy Goat Operation: Goat Milk for Cheese...
Up-to-date economic information for dairy goat ranchers. Extensive cost tables.
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Common Incubation Problems: Causes and Remedies
It is advisable to investigate poultry hatches that are below expectations. This publication can help you determinethe cause of failed incubations, hatches that are below expectations, or poor chick quality.
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Orchard Floor Management Practices to Reduce Erosion and Protect Water...
Water-induced erosion carries valuable soil out of orchards and into downstream waterways, where it can cause serious problems. Learn how to keep your soil where it will do you the most good.
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Selecting Chickens for Home Use
Whether you want to raise chickens for eggs, meat, or show, you will find valuable, basic information in this free publication.
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Cucumber Production in California
Cucumber is a profitable commercial crop over a large area of California. This publication gives tips on planting, cultivating, and marketing.
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Navel Orange Split
A near-ripe citrus fruit that splits on the tree gives a disappointing end to the growing season. Read about likely causes of navel orange split and what you can do to help reduce its occurrence.
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Fish Habitat in Freshwater Streams
This is reference sheet 10.3 in the Farm Water Quality Planning series.
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Pistachio: Calendar of Operations for Home Gardeners
This series of handy guides for the home orchard gives a quick overview of major tasks that should be undertaken during the winter dormant, spring bloom, summer growing and harvest, and autumn seasons. This guide is for pistachios.
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Forest Stewardship Series 16: Forest Pests and Diseases
Part 16 of the 24-part Forest Stewardship Series.
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Processing Tomato Production in California
Basic information for commercial growers, including climatic requirements, varieties, planting, fertilization, harvest, and marketing channels.
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Feeding Rice Straw to Cattle
Rice straw, under increased scrutiny when burned as agricultural waste, has new promise as a livestock feed.
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Holiday Cacti
Thanksgiving, Christmas, and Easter cacti bloom from late fall through spring, providing vibrant color at a time of year when
few other houseplants look their best. Learn how your holiday cacti can thrive and look their best!
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Mulches in California Vegetable Crop Production
Surface mulches are widely used in the production of strawberries and certain high-value vegetable crops. For production practices using polyethylene or cover crop mulches to be successful, production goals must be matched with know how and experience.
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Mowing Your Lawn and Grasscycling
Grass clippings make up a surprisingly large portion of California’s solid waste stream during the growing season. Learn how to properly mow your lawn, how to “grasscycle” the clippings, mower safety tips and more.
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Harvesting and Storing Your Home Orchard's Nut Crop: Almonds, Walnuts,...
The quality and quantity of your home orchard’s nut crop depend on the harvesting, handling, and storage methods that you use. This publication offers some handy advice for almonds, walnuts, pecans, pistachos, and chestnuts.
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Hatching Egg Sanitation: The Key Step in Successful Storage and Produc...
Eggs produced for hatching are not headed for your kitchen, but they still need to be clean and germ-free if you want to hatch healthy, disease-free chicks.
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Compost in a Hurry
Simple, straightforward tips to help you generate useable compost in as little as 2 or 3 weeks.
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Tomatoes: Safe Methods to Store, Preserve, and Enjoy
This guide includes advice on selecting tomatoes for the home garden as well as from the market; safety tips for handling fresh tomatoes; and recommended methods for storing, freezing, drying, and canning. Also includes two salsa recipes.
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Extending the Freshness of Cut Flowers at Home
Here are some suggestions to help you maintain the freshness of your cut flowers, extend your enjoyment of the flowers, and stretch your flower-buying dollar a little farther.
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Egg Candling and Breakout Analysis
Color photo guide to determining quality and condition of intact poultry eggs.
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Guidelines for Controlling Listeria monocytogenes in Packing Op...
New handling and packaging techniques can help keep this disease-causing bacterium out of refrigerated and ready-to-eat foods.
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Minimum Tillage Vegetable Crop Production in California
Tillage operations in vegetable production represent time, energy, equipment, and labor that can make up more than 25% of preharvest production costs. Reduced-tillage systems have been developed to control costs and optimize soil management.
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Oranges: Safe Methods to Store, Preserve, and Enjoy
Safety tips for handling fresh oranges along with methods to freeze, dry, and can. Also includes a recipe for citrus marmalade.
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Tomatillo Production in California
Basic information for commercial growers, including climatic requirements, varieties, planting, fertilization, harvest, and marketing channels.
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Nutrition and Health Info Sheet: Energy Drinks
Marketers of "energy drinks" make many claims about their products' effects and safety. Find out what's behind those claims.
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Forest Stewardship Series 5: Tree Growth and Competition
Part 5 of the 24-part Forest Stewardship Series.
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Turnip Production in California
Basic information for commercial growers, including climatic requirements, varieties, planting, fertilization, harvest, and marketing channels.
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Feral Poultry: How to Construct a User-Friendly Trap
Feral poultry -- whether escaped domestic birds or their offspring born in the wild -- cause property damage and other hazards. Traps used for live-trapping mammals are ineffective against these birds. Learn how to build and use a simple, effective trap.
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Herbicide Resistance: Definition and Management Strategies
An herbicide ceases to be a useful tool for farmers when its target weeds develop resistance to its effects. This publication helps you understand resistance: what causes it, and how you can slow or prevent its development.
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Okra Production in California
Basic information for commercial growers, including climatic requirements, varieties, planting, fertilization, harvest, and marketing channels.
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Understanding and Improving Beef Cattle Carcass Quality
Carcass attributes are figuring more into the cow-calf manager’s decision-making process and yielding financial rewards. Learn what carcass information means and how it can be used it to improve beef quality.
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Alternaria Diseases
Apples, broccoli, tomatoes, citrus, and a wide variety of other food crops are susceptible to Alternaria diseases. Learn how to recognize symptoms and control outbreaks.
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Forest Stewardship Series Complete (Parts 1 through 24)
The Forest Stewardship Series gives California forestland owners comprehensive information on the management and enjoyment of their lands. It is a good introduction to the lifelong study of forest stewardship that is part of owning forest property.
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Selecting Fruit, Nut, and Berry Crops for Home Gardens in San Mateo an...
This publication is for gardeners in San Mateo and San Francisco counties. Use the handy tables to identify your climate zone, and then select varieties best suited for success in your area.
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Vegetable Garden Basics
Essential points to consider when you are planning a vegetable garden.
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Snap Bean Production in California
Basic information for commercial growers, including climatic requirements, varieties, planting, fertilization, harvest, and marketing channels.
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Oxidation-Reduction Potential (ORP) for Water Disinfection Monitoring
Large volumes of water are commonly used during postharvest handling of minimally processed fruits and vegetables. Water disinfection is a critical step in minimizing the potential transmission of pathogens from a water source to produce.
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Forest Stewardship Series 7: Forest Regeneration
Part 7 of the 24-part Forest Stewardship Series.
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Peppers: Safe Methods to Store, Preserve, & Enjoy
This guide includes safety tips for preserving peppers along with recommended methods for storing, freezing, drying, pickling, and canning. Also includes seven recipes for pickled peppers, salsa, jellies, and relishes.
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Common Lice and Mites of Poultry: Identification and Treatment
How to recognize and control louse and mite parasites on chickens, turkeys, and other poultry.
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Egg Basics for the Consumer: Packaging, Storage, and Nutritional Infor...
How to recognize freshness and quality in the eggs you buy for your home and family.
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Rhubarb Production in California
Rhubarb is a frost-tolerant cool-season perennial. Its edible stems' unique flavor makes it a favorite ingredient in pies and desserts. This publication gives you the basics on commercially growing, harvesting, and marketing fresh rhubarb.
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Watershed Function
This is reference sheet 10.1 in the Farm Water Quality Planning series.
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Sprout Production in California
Sprouts have been grown for food since prehistoric times, and they remain a viable crop today. This publication gives tips on growing, packaging, and marketing sprouts.
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Budding & Grafting Citrus & Avocados in the Home Garden
It is often tempting, after eating a delicious orange or avocado, to plant the seed. But, fruit grown from these seed may not have the desired results. Here is an introduction to budding and grafting–the best way to produce good quality fruit.
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Pesticides for Specialty Crops
Insecticides, acaricides, fungicides, and herbicides listed for use on 64 specialty crops or crop groups.
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Production of Therapeutic Proteins in Plants
Discusses the types of biologics produced in plants, plant based production systems in use, government agencies responsible for regulation of biologics, and some agricultural practices required to safely produce biologics in crop plants.
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Using Transplants in Vegetable Production
Growers who use greenhouse transplants can target early-season markets and often produce multiple crops in a single growing season. In addition, they reduce pest and disease losses, and help ensure a more uniform stand.
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Rangeland Monitoring Series: Sediment Delivery Inventory and Monitorin...
This easy-to-use worksheet and photographic record method gives any landowner a simple way to monitor streamside erosion and waterway sediment data for use in land management decisions or to demonstrate compliance with water quality standards.
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Selecting Lumber and Lumber Substitutes for Outdoor Exposures
Wood used in water-intensive conditions such as the garden or waterways must be especially resistant to rot. This publication describes the various materials available.
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Identity Preservation of Agricultural Commodities
Identity preservation (IP) is a system of production, handling, and marketing practices that maintain the integrity of commodities. Crop varieties with unique traits benefit from IP programs that can capture their added value in markets.
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Sclerotinia Diseases
Sclerotinia diseases cause rotting in a variety of vegetable and floral crops. Learn how to recognize and control outbreaks.
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Dryland Pastures: Establishment and Management in the Intermountain Re...
Covers important considerations for site selection, seed mixes that are appropriate for different climates and land-use plans, seeding rates, seed-bed preparation methods, planting times, seeding methods, weed control, and grazing management.
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Fruit Trees: Training and Pruning Deciduous Trees
How to prune fruit and nut trees for optimum health and productivity.
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Strawberries: Safe Methods to Store, Preserve, and Enjoy
Strawberries are a seasonal delight in California and they add a healthy component to a well-balanced diet. Learn how to get the most out of the strawberries you buy at market or from a You-Pick farm or grow in your own garden.
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Almond leaf Scorch
Almond leaf scorch is a bacterial disease that kill otherwise healthy trees -- or, if undetected and untreated, entire orchards -- within just a few years. Learn to recognize the disease and take action early to save your trees and your livelihood.
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Insecticide and Miticide Resistance Management in San Joaquin Valley C...
It's a fine line: pest control chemicals can help growers increase yields and reduce costs, but poor application techniques can lead to chemical-resistant pests. Read about how chemical resistance works and how you can help prevent its development.
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Apricots: Calendar of Operations for Home Gardeners
This series of handy guides for the home orchard gives a quick overview of major tasks that should be undertaken during the winter dormant, spring bloom, summer growing and harvest, and autumn seasons. This guide is for apricots.
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Photographic Guide to Citrus Fruit Scarring
This publication helps you recognize specific types of scars and their causes so you can prevent costly rind damage and the possible downgrading of your fruit.
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The Lunch Box Series, D: Appealing Lunches for Preschool Children
A packed lunch that's tasty, colorful, and nutritious is sure to appeal to your preschooler. Basic guidelines and sample menus are included.
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Growing Prunes (Dried Plums) in California: An Overview
California is the leading worldwide producer of prunes (dried plums). This publication's information on costs, potential for profits, and other practical considerations will help you determine whether this is the crop for you.
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Lawns 'n' Dogs
If you feel you have to choose between your best friend and your lawn, you are not alone. This brief guide will help you have both a green lawn and a (ahem) relieved dog!
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State and Federal Approach to Control of Nonpoint Sources of Pollution
Nonpoint source (NPS), common in agriculture, reaches the environment as runoff from a field, not output from a waste pipe. Its control and regulation are also different from other types of pollution that may seem more familiar.
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Vegetative Filter Strips for Nonpoint Source Pollution Control in Agri...
Irrigated orchards, vineyards, and row crops have high erosion rates. The vegetative filter strip (VFS) offers one way to control erosion rates and keep soil in the field rather than letting it be carried off site in drainage water.
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Small Grain Production Pt 2: Growth and Development of Small Grains
Part 2 of the 14-part Small Grain Production Manual describes the stages of small grain growth, including germination, tillering, vegetative growth, stem elongation, heading, flowering, grain filling, growth habit and yield components.
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Small Grain Production Pt 10: Small Grain Forages
Part 10 of the 14-part Small Grain Production Manual covers the use of small grains as livestock forage, including choosing among the small grains, harvest stages and methods, and effect of maturity on yield.
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Small Grain Production Pt 13: Harvesting and Storage
Part 13 of the 14-part Small Grain Production Manual provides essential information on harvesting and storage, including direct combining, windrowing, handling and storage facilities, and protecting grain quality from moisture, insects, and mold.
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Methods to Enable the Coexistence of Diverse Corn Production Systems
How to keep a corn field true to the planted variety and reduce the potential for cross-pollination from nearby plantings of other corn varieties.
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Citrus Leafminer and Citrus Peelminer
Citrus leafminer and citrus peelminer are serious pests of California citrus groves. Learn how to tell them apart and how to apply appropriate control measures. Includes many color photos.
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Reducing Runoff from Irrigated Lands: Understanding Your Orchard's Wat...
A simple way to determine the proper irrigation amount is to estimate the amount of water the trees have used, evapotranspiration (ET), since the last irrigation. Learn how to easily calculate real-time ET rates using data provided by CIMIS.
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Mixed Melon Production in California
Basic information for commercial growers, including climatic requirements, varieties, planting, fertilization, harvest, and marketing channels.
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Growing Seed Sprouts at Home
How to grow edible sprouts at home while avoiding food safety hazards.
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