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State and Federal Approach to Control of Nonpoint Sources of Pollution
State and Federal Approach to Control of Nonpoint Sources of Pollution
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.
Plant Disease Management for Organic Crops
Plant Disease Management for Organic Crops
Plant Disease Management for Organic Crops
Plant diseases create challenging problems in commercial agriculture and pose real economic threats to both conventional and organic farming systems. In an organic system, disease-control strategies should have an ecological basis.
Turnover rates are decreasing in California dairies
Turnover rates are decreasing in California dairies
Turnover rates are decreasing in California dairies
Compared with 60 years ago, the dairy workforce is more stable with fewer layoffs and better relations between workers and managers.
Regional identity can add value to agricultural products
Regional identity can add value to agricultural products
Regional identity can add value to agricultural products

The California fine wine industry has built and leveraged successful regional identities, yielding lessons for other agricultural sectors.

Conservation tillage systems for cotton advance in the San Joaquin Valley
Conservation tillage systems for cotton advance in the San Joaquin Valley
Conservation tillage systems for cotton advance in the San Joaquin Val...

A 12-year UC study showed savings of $70 per acre from a no-tillage system with no decline in yields, provided that seedlings establish well.

Totally impermeable film (TIF) reduces emissions in perennial crop fumigation
Totally impermeable film (TIF) reduces emissions in perennial crop fumigation
Totally impermeable film (TIF) reduces emissions in perennial crop fum...

Three field trials make a case for TIF use in preplant fumigation of perennial crops.

Rebuilding for the next 100 years
Rebuilding for the next 100 years
Rebuilding for the next 100 years
Introducing cattle grazing to a noxious weed-dominated rangeland shifts plant communities
Introducing cattle grazing to a noxious weed-dominated rangeland shifts plant communities
Introducing cattle grazing to a noxious weed-dominated rangeland shift...

Pasture-scale tests of prescribed grazing did not reduce yellow starthistle, but did reduce medusahead in years without late-spring rainfall.

Letters to the editor
Letters to the editor
Letters to the editor

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