The Delta Crops Resource Management research and extension program serves San Joaquin, Sacramento, Yolo, Solano, and Contra Costa counties addressing agronomic crop production and soil and water resource management.
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2018-19 Small Grains Variety Trial Results
Results from the statewide UC small grains variety testing program are now available for the 2018-19 season. The Delta trial location was on Staten Island on a Valdez silt loam soil. Approximately 25,000 acres of soil in the Delta are characterized by...
By Michelle Leinfelder-Miles
Author - Farm AdvisorBy Mark Lundy
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2019 Delta Corn and Small Grains Meeting
UC Cooperative Extension will host the annual corn field meeting on Tuesday, October 15th, from 10:00-11:30am, on Tyler Island in Sacramento County. The agenda is pasted below and attached. In addition to providing information on the annual corn variety...
By Michelle Leinfelder-Miles
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Soil Health and Cover Cropping Field Meeting Recap
On September 4th, we hosted the Soil Health and Cover Cropping Field Meeting on Staten Island in San Joaquin County. We would like to thank those who attended the meeting. The meeting handouts are now available from the Delta Crops website. We began the...
By Michelle Leinfelder-Miles
Author - Farm AdvisorBy Brenna J. Aegerter
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Soil Health and Cover Cropping Field Meeting
UC Cooperative Extension will host a Soil Health and Cover Cropping Field Meeting on Wednesday, September 4, 2019 from 10:00am to noon, on Staten Island in the San Joaquin County Delta. The agenda is pasted below and attached. The meeting will begin with...
By Michelle Leinfelder-Miles
Author - Farm AdvisorBy Brenna J. Aegerter
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Fusarium Wilt in Garbanzos
A little over a month ago, I visited some contiguous garbanzo bean fields in southern San Joaquin County, at the request of the grower. The grower observed that plants were yellowing and dying (Fig. 1) and wondered what might be causing the problem. The...
By Michelle Leinfelder-Miles
Author - Farm Advisor
Contact
Michelle Leinfelder-Miles, Ph.D Farm Advisor
2101 E. Earhart Ave., Ste. 200 Stockton, CA 95206
(209) 953-6100 mmleinfeldermiles@ucanr.edu
About Michelle
Michelle is the Delta Crops Resource Management Advisor serving San Joaquin, Sacramento, Yolo, Solano, and Contra Costa counties. Michelle grew up on a farm in San Joaquin County, and her educational background includes a B.S. in Crop Science and Management from U.C. Davis, and a M.S. and Ph.D. in Horticulture from Cornell University. At Cornell, her research focused on soil management in apple orchards. Michelle has also done research in Spain, Chile, and New Zealand studying olives, wine grapes, and kiwifruit, respectively. In her role as Delta farm advisor, she conducts a research and extension program that addresses agronomic crop production and water and soil resource management. Specific interests include variety evaluations in grain corn, small grains, and rice; cover cropping and soil health; and soil salinity management in Delta cropping systems.