CT and Cropping Systems Workgroup to be at M-52 at this year’s World Ag Expo

California’s Conservation Tillage and Cropping Systems Workgroup will once again maintain a site at the 2011 World Ag Expo coming up February 8-10 in Tulare. The workgroup booth will be at site M-52, which is about 30 yards due south of the main North Gate 6 entrance.

This year, we will be providing a series of live presentations on various aspects of conservation agriculture through much of each day in addition to our other information offerings.

Presentations include:

• Local workgroup farmer members Jesse Sanchez, Tom Barcellos, Dino Giacomazzi, and Scott Schmidt talking about their CT and irrigation systems
• NRCS conservationists providing information on available USDA programs that support conservation agriculture systems and practices
• UCCE advisor Dan Munk sharing information about CT cotton
• UCCE advisor advisor Gene Miyao talking about cover crops in tomato systems
• UC Davis soil science professor Will Horwath talking about soil carbon and GHG’s
• Ladi Asgill and Ron Harben discussing conservation agricultural systems related to production and business models
• Jerry Rossiter discussing overhead, mechanized irrigation systems.

The presentations will start at 10 a.m. each day and cycle through the day at the M-52 Workgroup tent.

For more information, contact Jeff Mitchell at (559) 303-9689 or mitchell@uckac.edu.

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