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The 4-H Thriving Model of Positive Youth Development (PYD) shows that youth in 4-H programs with a high-quality, safe and caring environment will grow and thrive. Thriving youth can reach essential life goals.

Personal Growth projects help you develop your skills in the areas of decision making, communication, leadership, coping with change, and positive self esteem. These are all essential skills to thrive in your work and life. The following are examples of Personal Development projects.

Applying the right amount of water in each irrigation event is essential to improve both water and nitrogen use efficiency. When irrigation is excessive, water can be lost through deep percolation and/or runoff, carrying soluble nutrients such as nitrate with it.

Technology and Advantages of Soil Moisture Sensors Soil moisture sensors (SMS) can provide invaluable information to support irrigation scheduling decisions, along with field observations and crop knowledge.

Irrigation Scheduling Irrigating a crop involves two important decisions: when to start the irrigation, and for how long to irrigate. These decisions are most accurate when guided by sensors and/or techniques that estimate important parameters such as soil moisture content and crop water use.

Deciding on When to Irrigate Every crop has a threshold for how dry the root zone environment can get before yield and quality are compromised. Decreasing soil moisture past that threshold will inhibit plant transpiration, photosynthetic and metabolic processes, leading to decreased crop yield.

Nitrogen Management Among all essential plant nutrients, nitrogen (N) is the most unstable in the soil and also the most yield-limiting nutrient for berry and vegetable crops production in Ventura County.

Using the Soil Nitrate Quick Test (SNQT) for Guiding Nitrogen Fertilization The text below addresses the intricacies involved in using the SNQT to improve the efficiency of nitrogen fertilization practices. For specific details on how to use the quick test, click here or here.

CropManage is a free web-based irrigation and nitrogen management software created by the UC Cooperative Extension. The software uses multi-year local research data to estimate plant growth and therefore assess nitrogen uptake and water use.

Salinity Management this page is under construction.