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.
From March 17 to at least April 7, 2020, UCCE offices will be closed. During this time, all employees will be working remotely. Please read the linked one-page update for more details and resources.
Hi all,I am excited to announce a half-day symposium on integrated Livestock-Cropping Systems at Hopland Research and Extension Center, on September 2, 2022.
In this issue: * Free online Stockmanship and Stewardship event, November 1 * Beef cattle health focus: -Neospora in cattle -Cattle health info sheets * Killer oak trees...
