The dairy drip project looking at using lagoon water through drip tape adjusts the nitrogen content automatically to keep a consistent percentage. System Automatically Adjusts Nitrogen DeJager farms in Chowchilla…
State Board Drops Planned Grazing Rule
…board held public listening sessions around the state earlier this year to solicit feedback on its Grazing Regulatory Action Project, or GRAP, which the board proposed late last year. The…
DuPont Pioneer Commits $300,000 to Food and Agricultural Education Grants
…while enhancing core-academic disciplines, such as science and mathematics,” said Dan Jansen, CASE project director. “However, our agriculture teachers have minimal resources to equip themselves and their classrooms to provide…
Drought Forcing Changes in Drip Project
In hindsight, this water-plagued year has actually helped the dairy drip irrigation initiative by creating extremes that the project has had to figure out. Drought Forcing Changes in Drip Project…
Drought Brings Challenges to Dairy Drip Project
Getting drip to work on dairy facilities with lagoon water is difficult and projects always run into the same issue, issues that were harder this year because of water availability….
Helping Dairies Manage Nitrogen
…its project which is trying to figure out how to get the nutrients from lagoon water through drip tape and to their feed crops efficiently. Netafim is a partner in…
Drought Causing Valley Land to Sink
…feet in two years — and will now conduct a system-wide evaluation of subsidence along the California Aqueduct and the condition of State Water Project facilities. The evaluation will help…
Medfly Quarantine in Portion of San Diego County
…United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), the San Diego County Agricultural Commissioner, and CDFA are working collaboratively on this project. The quarantine area in San Diego County measures 93 square…
The Western View: He’s a Farmer
Almond harvest I’ve been working on a special project, writing about almond growers and how they make a crop. It’s been a real education. He’s a farmer My son-in-law Brett…
The Western View: Crowdfunding for Agriculture
…range. There’s a lot of worthy projects looking for help. Another site is Agfunder. It’s for the big boys. The projects there are high-dollar. Most are companies that are developing…
Statement of Westlands Water District on the Introduction of the California Emergency Drought Relief Act of 2015
…water supply shortages caused by four years of extraordinary dry conditions have been exacerbated by the restrictions imposed on the operations of the federal Central Valley Project and the California…
Common Insect Impacting Wasp Effectiveness
…protecting ACP Cooperative Extension Specialist Mark Hoddle says during an extended project looking at tamarixia control on ACP, they saw an interesting trend with a common orchard floor pest. Hoddle…
Tamarixia Wasp Populations Doing Well
Courtesy: UCANR Most citrus growers know what tamarixia wasps are and what they do, but how is the project doing since the insects’ release? Populations Doing Well Researchers wanted to…
Second Wasp Released for Psyllid Control
…trial that looked at tamarixia wasps for ACP biological control earlier this month at a citrus growers’ seminar series. Cooperative Extension Specialist Mark Hoddle worked on that project and showed…