Agriculture

Abrir el acceso a vacas muy pesadas, de unas 1,200 libras, a uno de los ecosistemas ms frgiles y biolgicamente ricos de California, parece una forma rara de proteger a las especies en peligro de extincin.

Farmers and ranchers are invited on a tour to learn how to use cover crops to build soil health. A full-day tour of several cover crop sites in orchards and annual crop fields in the Sacramento Valley is being offered on March 3 by the Western Cover Crop Council's Southwest Region Committee.

Bringing Irrigation and Nutrient Management Decision-Support Tool to the Field Date: Thursday, February 10, 2022 8:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.

Bringing Irrigation and Nutrient Management Decision-Support Tool to the Field Date: Wednesday, February 9, 2022 8:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.

Growers are invited to attend free organic agriculture seminars hosted by UC Cooperative Extension. Lunchtime seminars will be offered on Tuesdays from 12 to 1 p.m. through March 8.

The California Chapter, American Society of Agronomy and Cooperative Extension, UC Agriculture and Natural Resources are hosting the annual Plant and Soil Conference on Tuesday, February 1 - Thursday, February 3. This will be a virtual event using zoom.

January 20, 2022 Undergraduate student, Jennifer Valdez-Herrera, took home the first prize award in this year's student poster competition of the California Weed Science Society that was held January 19th - 21st at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Sacramento, CA.

January 20, 2022 Year 5 of a major cover crop roller crimper study is underway on the Fresno State campus in the school's center pivot field under the monitoring supervision of Dr.

January 19, 2022 On a foggy morning at the Santa Ana Ranch of Phil Foster's Pinnacle Organically Grown Produce farm nearHollister, CA, he along with fellowCIG Project farmer, Tom Willey, met with JohnPetrosso, the Sales Engineer forMazzei Injector Company to plan a study aimed at evaluating the effe...

Due to unforeseen circumstances, the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology seminar scheduled for Wednesday, Jan. 26 has been cancelled, announced coordinator Shahid Siddique, assistant professor of nematology.