General situation Planting is well under way, if not complete for the main season crop. The weather is starting to settle into its summer pattern. According to the data from our reference weather station the area is running slightly ahead of the 30 year average.
Coronavirus's next victim: Big Meat (Grist) Nathanael Johnson, April 30 It's going to cause price spikes somewhere downstream, said Rich Sexton, an agricultural economist at the University of California, Davis.
Oaks and Oak Woodlands Explained Natural History of the Central Coast Bioregion (adapted from Gregory Ira's announcement: https://ucanr.edu/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.
Growers throughout the country and around the world plant a wide range of cover crops for a variety of reasons. Cover crops can reduce soil compaction, improve water infiltration, improve soil structure, and feed soil microbes: they encourage a healthier and more diverse soil ecosystem.
Happy Monday! It doesn't feel like Monday. Saturday felt' like Sunday and I woke up early this morning thinking how slow the weekend was going by. I don't recall having that concern before. Then I realized it was over problem solved. Yardwork was front and center over the weekend.
When California was part of the Wild West, it took a certain amount of guesswork to move cattle from their home range to summer pastures while making sure sufficient forage was left behind to hold the cattle over till fall rainfall spurred new growth.
Over the last 20 years, UC research has shown that dairies in the San Joaquin and Sacramento valleys are potentially major contributors of nitrate and salts in groundwater.
JOB ANNOUNCEMENT (AP 20-06) County Location: Merced County Date Posted: April 7, 2020 Closing Date: May 31, 2020 Location Headquarters: Merced, California For more information, visit https://ucanr.
Hi. We've been a bit slow getting the thrips risk and TSWV updates up and running this year. We hope you are all safe and well. We also want to say thank you to everyone involved in food production and agriculture in general for keeping the food chain flowing during the COVID-19 epidemic.
