…public a firsthand look at locations of burn scars here. As of October 15, California had experienced 6,726 fires burning a total of 560,888 acres. CAL FIRE has taken measures…
Orchard Wood Recycling Offers Disposal Option
…business as contracts with utility companies expire—and burning the pile will get you in trouble with air regulators. Now what? That conundrum got San Joaquin County farm advisor Brent Holtz…
RFA Fishing Sponsorship Will Promote Ethanol
…power boost, while being the lowest-cost, cleanest-burning, biodegradable fuel on the planet.” Bass Pro Shops Crappiemasters Owner and President Brian Sowers said, “This is a huge opportunity to partner with…
Taking the Melodrama out of Almond Orchard Recycling
…onsite. Combining a traditional horizontal chipper with a wood chip spreader modified for this purpose can be a viable alternative to the now-mostly banned burning of old orchards or transport…
Forestry Experts Say Tree Mortality Brings Added Risk
…In the last 15 years, national forests in California are burning at an average rate of 320,000 acres a year and, Brink said, “the intensity of those fires has been…
New York Moving Toward E-15 Approval
…represents an exciting opportunity for New Yorkers to select affordable, clean-burning biofuels produced at plants like ours. Back in 2004, we set out with a mission to harness the power…
Water Use/Climate Research Fellowships for CA Students
…Biomass Burning through Time-Resolved Speciated Volatile and Semi-Volatile Organic Compound Measures Award amount: $132,000 Project title: Identifying Environmental Pollutants that Alter the Stress Response Award amount: $132,000 Project title: Human…
State Seeks Way to Solve ‘A Big Biomass Problem’
…instead of pile-burning or burning it in a landfill. “We’ve known for years that if you take the material to a power plant which burns wood in a boiler instead…
Managed Grazing Helps Forests, Experts Say
…forest,” he said. “This ultimately leads to more wildfires and definitely more devastating and hotter-burning wildfires.” At one time, public rangelands and forestlands across the West had been grazed more…
Agri View: Hydroponic Farming
…(through the burning of fossil fuels) and habitat fragmentation, degradation, and reduction (as natural terrestrial environments are converted into farmlands). Habitat loss is the leading cause of biodiversity loss, and…
Wildland Fires in a Tube
…depending on what trees or other vegetation are there to fuel the fire. These two factors—what is burning and whether it’s flaming or smoldering—affect the smoke that people ultimately breathe….
Agri View: Blacksmithing
…and the distinctive smell of burning charcoal identified his workshop. At the beginning of the Twentieth Century, farming was done with the power of horses and the skills of a…
It’s Not Just Climate Change
…risk of burning in California through 2050, which is estimated at more than 7 million acres in the next 25 years. Climate change affects the severity of the fire season…
CA Farmers Achieve More Air Quality Gains
…associated with agricultural burning; 4) combine disking operations to reduce passes across fields to reduce dust ;5) transition to cleaner irrigation pump engines and electric motors; 6) limit soil disturbance…