San Joaquin

This week, your host, the wonderful Ann Liu will chat with two leaders of education at the Sea and Sage Audubon Society. Trude Hurd is the Project Director of Education and Carolyn Noble is the Education Chair and Board Member.

A new study on the costs and returns of producing processing tomatoes in Fresno County and the central San Joaquin Valley has been released by the UC ANR Agricultural Issues Center. Growers contemplating crops to grow may use the estimates to help decide whether to plant processing tomatoes.

You don't want to miss how to learn to implement a 4-H/Google Computer Science Pathway Program in your 4-H program! Saturday, April 7th, 2018, 9:00 am to 4:00 pm Training will be held @Googleplex, Mountain View, CA Register before March 23rd @ ucanr.

The USDA-Agricultural Research Service (ARS)-funded Delta Region Areawide Aquatic Weed Project (DRAAWP) is reporting progress in reducing aquatic weed coverage in the Delta through the development and use of new control technologies and models, while reducing control costs for stakeholders.

Conservation Agriculture Systems Innovation (CASI) Organization Location: Five Points, Calif. In 1998, a group of select pioneering farmers came together with different reasons for using no-till, but had one common goal of bettering the soil in the state of California.

Here is a short summary written by Theresa Becchetti, University of California Cooperative Extension (UCCE) Livestock and Natural Resource Advisor on the Effects of Medusahead on Beef Cattle Gains project.

A tough decision in producing alfalfa hay is what to do with a seedling stand that's marginal, at best.

The UC Agriculture and Natural Resources Agricultural Issues Center (UC ANR) has released two new studies on the costs and returns of producing garbanzo beans (chickpeas), in the Sacramento and San Joaquin Valleys.

Looking for some new ideas for the kitchen? Check out the Jefferson 4-H Cookbook! All of the TWO HUNDRED recipes in the book are from Jefferson 4-H members and their families. The cookbook costs $15.00. For more information, please contact Jennifer Morelos at jmorelos4@yahoo.com.

Put on that jacket! This winter has been cold and dry, and many of our crops have felt it, including almonds, but also alfalfa! Fortunately, alfalfa has a high degree of tolerance but yields can also be reduced due to frost. Frost Damage.