Posts Tagged: Nitrogen management

Lawn-pocalypse! Surviving Drought

Ah, summer! The season of sunburns, pool parties, and… lawn droughts. If your once lush, green carpet now looks like a crunchy brown doormat, you're not alone. Let's dive into why your yard is staging a dramatic death scene and what you can do to...

Bermuda grass and weeds overtaking drought stressed turf grass.

A patch of former lawn, mostly dead, with a few green weeds and Bermudagrass

CropManage Hands-on Training, Salinas CA Wed. April 3, 2024

Date: Wed. April 3rd,  2024

Course 8:30 am – 12 pm

Location: Monterey County Agriculture Conference Room

1432 Abbott St, Salinas CA 93901

•  Learn how to use CropManage to support irrigation and nutrient management decisions and record-keeping for your crops.
• Learn how to set up your ranch and crops in CropManage.
• Learn about the latest updates and how CropManage can assist with Ag Order 4.0
  

CropManage is a free online decision-support tool for water and nutrient management of vegetables, berry, agronomic, vineyard and tree crops. Based on research and field studies conducted by the University of California Cooperative Extension, CropManage provides real-time recommendations for efficient and timely irrigation and fertilization applications while maintaining or improving overall yield. 

At this free workshop, we will provide hands-on training so that you can learn to use the newest version of CropManage. Crops currently supported include many vegetables (carrots, cabbage, celery, broccoli, lettuce, tomato, spinach, etc.), berry crops (raspberry and strawberry), vineyards, tree crops (almond, walnut, pistachio, prunes, and pear), and agronomic crops (alfalfa and corn). CropManage is also available in Spanish. 

Who should participate? Growers, farm managers, other farm staff, crop advisors, consultants, and technical service providers are welcome. The workshop is for both new and current CropManage users. Spanish translation will be available.  

What to bring? This is a participatory workshop. Please bring a tablet or laptop computer so that you can follow along and participate in the exercises. Each participant will need a user account for CropManage. Please set up a free user account at https://cropmanage.ucanr.edu/ before the workshop. Please arrive early to set up your laptop or tablet computer on the wifi and get logged on to CropManage.

Registration is free: Please register here 

by April 1, 2024. Seats are limited to the first 30 registrants.

 Questions: Contact Michael Cahn at mdcahn@ucanr.edu / 831-214-3690                                              

 

Agenda

8:30 – 8:50  am Registration and computer set-up

8:50 – 9:20  am Introduction

9:20 – 10:00 am  Getting started with CropManage

10:00 to 10:15 am   break

10:10 – 11:00 am  Using CropManage for decision support and record-keeping

11:00 – 11:45 am  Group exercise

11:45- 12 pm  Discussion /Q&A/ wrap up

Drop-in office hours

Continuing Education Units (CEU) for Certified Crop Advisors (CCA) have been applied.

2024 Irrigation and Nutrient Management Meeting

2024 Irrigation and Nutrient Management Meeting

Tuesday, February 20

7:55 am to 1:30 pm

Habrá traducción al Español

Registration Link:

7:30            Sign-in and refreshments

7:55            Introduction

 8:00           Managing runoff during the growing season and winter.

                     Michael Cahn, UCCE Irrigation Advisor, Monterey County

8:30           Satellite estimates of crop water use on the central coast and OpenET        

                   Lee Johnson, CSU Monterey Bay/NASA

9:00           Update on using high carbon amendments for reducing nitrate leaching during the winter

                     Richard Smith, UCCE Vegetable and Weed Emeritus Advisor, Monterey County

                    Joji Muramoto, UC Santa Cruz, Organic Production Specialist

9:30           Cover crops for reducing winter nitrate leaching and controlling storm water runoff.

                    Eric Brennan, Research Horticulturist, USDA ARS

10:00          Break

10:15         Ag Order requirements for the upcoming year

                    Sarah Lopez, Executive Director, Central Coast Water Quality Preservation Inc.

10:45         UCANR Nitrogen and Irrigation Initiative: Opportunity for technical assistance.

                    Aparna Gazula, UCCE Small Farm Advisor, Santa Clara County

11:00         Using CropManage to help with Ag Order compliance.

                    Michael Cahn, UCCE Irrigation Advisor, Monterey County

11:25         DPR Surface Water Protection Program: An overview of ag. monitoring on the Central Coast.

                    Pedro Lima, Sr. Environmental Scientist Cal DPR

11:50         Introduction to pump efficiency

                    Bill Green, Fresno State University, Center for Irrigation Technology

12:00          Pizza and Salad Lunch (free!)

12:45          Demonstration of pump efficiency and variable frequency drives (Parking lot)

                    Crystal Sandoval-Leyva, Fresno State University, Center for Irrigation Technology

2:15            Adjourn

 

CCA and DPR continuing education credits have been requested

For more information, contact Michael Cahn @ 831-759-7377, email: mdcahn@ucdavis.edu

Research Updates: Biosolids as a Nitrogen Source in California Wheat

Overview  Three years of data indicate that liquid-injected biosolids-based fertilizers (LBF, using 'Lystegro' from Lystek) are a viable alternative to conventional forms of nitrogen (N) fertilizer on a total N basis in wheat rotations in the...

Ag-related Online Tools for Growers, Managers, and Crop Consultants.

Half the battle in learning and development is knowing what you don't know. I have been collecting a running list of different ag-related tools and technologies that I think growers, managers, and crop consultants could benefit from. Below are some...

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