…Jr. Livestock Auction Entertainment 2,601 jumps in the Jack in the Box Freestyle Motocross show 62,201 monorail rides 612 guests hypnotized on the PG&E Center Stage 500,000 dollars in horseracing…
Labor Training Helps Energy Efficiency
…the Center for Irrigation Technology at Fresno State, Bill Green, says they work with companies like Pacific Gas and Electric to make saving water and money a priority. Labor Training…
Subsidized Pump Test Program
…at the Center for Irrigation Technology at Fresno State, Bill Green, informs growers that PG&E will subsidize the cost of an efficiency test on their well pump. Subsidized Pump Test…
CDFA benefits from new training initiative that helps State improve efficiency, cut red tape
CDFA Secretary Karen Ross (center) with the Department’s Lean 6 Sigma Training graduates. From left, Animal Health and Food Safety Services director Dr. Annette Jones, division analyst Kimberly McCarthy, Division…
Possible Losses from Inefficient Irrigation
How efficient is your irrigation system running? If you haven’t tested it lately, you may be losing crop. AgNet West’s Taylor Hillman has the story. Possible Losses from Inefficient Irrigation…
Global Food Safety Agreement Signed by China and UC Davis
…a systemwide collaboration to put the world on a path to feed itself nutritiously and sustainably. Both the Sino-U.S. Joint Research Center and the UC Davis World Food Center will…
USDA Selects 36 Energy Facilities to Accept Biomass Deliveries
…Products Colorado Eagle Valley Clean Energy, LLC Idaho Clearwater Paper Corporation Basic American Foods Kansas Abengoa Michigan Hillman Power Company LLC Minnesota Minnesota Power – Hibbard Renewable Energy Center Minnesota…
USDA Provides Aid to 73,000 Rural Californians Impacted by Drought
…$7.6 million to livestock producers through the cost-sharing Emergency Conservation Program. Invested $750,000 to reduce aquatic weeds clogging irrigation screens, pumps and canals in the Sacramento and San Joaquin River…
USDA/NRCS Video: Cover Crops and Water Infiltration of Soil
…Solano and Yolo Counties, California. From its micro-irrigation system suspended in the trees (emitters protected) to its on-site walnut processing plant fueled by biogas from the walnut hulls, Dixon Ridge…
Lady Gaga Joins California Water Conservation Effort
…users and suppliers, including prohibitions on outdoor irrigation more than two days per week, washing hardscapes, sidewalks and driveways with water and using hoses without shutoff nozzles to wash cars….
UC Davis Drought Study Assesses Current Losses and Potential Future Impacts
…come up dry in the future if it continues to treat those reserves like an unlimited savings account. The UC Davis Center for Watershed Sciences study, released today at a…
USDA FSA Announces Online Hay and Grazing Acres Locator Tool
…contracts. For more information about Hay Net and other FSA services and programs, please contact your local FSA office. For local FSA Service Center contact information, please visit: http://offices.sc.egov.usda.gov/locator/app ….
Apply for State Water Efficiency and Enhancement Program
…expertise to review the applications. Irrigation experts from the Cal Poly Irrigation Training and Research Center, the Center for Irrigation Technology at Fresno State and the University of California’s Cooperative…
Storage Only Won’t Help Water Crisis
…trying to get passed into law address added water storage in one way or another. Western Growers Association Executive Vice President Dave Puglia was on a panel at the Center…