Focus topics

Crop Nutrient Requirements

Nutrient management is critical in order to increase or maintain crop yields. Learn about crop needs throughout a growing season and ensuring high soil fertility. Read more.

Nitrous Oxide and California Agriculture

Nitrous oxide is a powerful greenhouse gas produced by microbes that live in the soil. Learn what nitrous oxide has to do with agriculture and what you can do to reduce nitrous oxide emissions. Read more.

Organic Nitrogen Availability

Learn more about the nitrogen cycle and the role that N mineralization may play in budgeting and nutrient management plans. Read more.

Cover Crops

Cover crops offer many potential benefits. Explore the management implications to consider when deciding whether to use cover crops, and identifying which crop or mixture of crops to plant. Read more.

Compost

Details on how compost can play an important role in nutrient management for California agriculture. Read more.

Soil Health

Soil health is the continued capacity of soil to function as a vital living ecosystem that sustains plants, animals, and humans. Learn the basics of soil health and how to manage soils. Read more.

Agrobiodiversity

The concept of agrobiodiversity incorporates aspects of natural settings into agriculturally productive systems and refers to the full range of diversity of life present in agricultural settings, from mammals to microbes and everything in between. Read more.