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Scott Park farms about 1500 acres in Meridian, California. He currently leases and owns 22 separate fields, which are all certified organic by California Certified Organic Farmers.

Charlie Starr grew up around vineyards; today, together with his father and father-in-law, the family oversees around 100 acres of vines in Acampo, California.

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Tim Hartz - UC Cooperative Extension Specialist, UC Davis Gene Miyao - UC Farm Advisor, Yolo County Marsha Campbell Mathews - UC Farm Advisor, Stanislaus County Scott Park - Farmer, Park Farms Rick Martinez - Farmer, Triad Farms Michael Turkovich - Farmer, Button and Turkovich Ranch Frank Muller - F...

Overview Common cover crops of California Potential benefits and tradeoffs Yield Soil Organic Matter Nitrogen management Water conservation and quality Greenhouse gases Weeds, pests and diseases Management considerations References A cover crop can be any non-cash crop grown in addition to the prima...

What Does a Healthy Soil Do? Soil Aggregation: The Basis of Soil Health Enhancing Soil Health ReferencesSoil health is the continued capacity of soil to function as a vital living ecosystem that sustains plants, animals, and humans.

Managed agricultural soils differ from unmanaged (or natural) ecosystems in several key ways.

Mark Mason is the manager for Huntington Farms, a third-generation family business in the Salinas Valley, responsible for farming head and leaf lettuce, cauliflower, celery, and broccoli on 4000 acres of land in the Soledad-Salinas area. The fields are generally double cropped per year.

Nate Ray is the general manager of DeJager Farms Inc., responsible for producing forage feed for 8 different diaries with a total of 25,000 cows on 17,000 acres of land near Chowchilla.

The Muller Ranch (M Three Ranches), grows organic and conventionally managed tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers, sunflower, walnuts, almonds vine grapes, olives, alfalfa, squashes, millet, wheat, corn, safflower, canola, and garlic on several thousand acres in Yolo County, where Joe Muller & Sons, as the...