…equipment, irrigation. Things like that which are hard to replace. It isn’t just farmers. Farm equipment dealers are victims too. Imagine cutting a heavy wire fence, hooking up to a…
Community Helps School Garden
…irrigation system in place. Maintenance proved to be difficult and time-consuming to maintain. School leaders and the community have since come together, along with the help of grants and donations…
Agri View: Damaging Weather
…equipment, especially irrigation equipment, will cover years to replace. Finally winter crops and livestock. Add it all up and you see that city homes and mobile home parks are just…
Soggy Fields slow Start of Rice Planting
…to,” he said. The bunching could result in other delays. Irrigation districts with small canals and outlets are not able to deliver water to fields all at once, Davis said,…
Agri View: Changing Farm Technology
…fertilizer. Technology tells them exactly how much. And when. One doesn’t have to guess when to turn on the irrigation or how long to run it. Precision is more than…
2017 P.I.E. Program Tour Dates Set
…efficiency and improve yields and fiber quality by: 1) gaining new perspectives in such fundamental practices as land preparation, planting, fertilization, pest control, irrigation and harvesting; and 2) observing diverse…
Almond Matters: Increase in Summer Disease Potential?
…spacings, less pruning, denser canopies, irrigation practices and the wet weather we are having all lead to conditions where you might have pre-moisture,” he said. “That’s favorable to the development…
Yellow Almond Trees More Widespread?
…the end of the rows, where there is a little more compaction, or in the wetter areas of the orchard. “So low spots, near irrigation lines or where the backwash…
Almond Board: Air Quality Programs
…injection methods on dairies. Agricultural Irrigation Engines: Significant emission reduction benefits are achieved when higher-polluting agricultural irrigation engines are removed from service and permanently destroyed and repowered with new electric…
State Releases Plan to Make Water Conservation a Way of Life
…efficient irrigation systems.” After Governor Brown called for a 25 percent reduction in urban water use in 2015, Californians rose to the challenge and saved 24 percent during the 12…
California and Australia – a Continuing Partnership
…agriculture is an ongoing theme. When visiting Ferrero’s Rocher’s hazelnut operation for instance, we saw that the company has employed a number of different irrigation pumps, micro-irrigation systems, and plantings…
Almond Board: When Should You Water?
With the unusually wet year, growers are changing up their irrigation schedules. Spencer Cooper, senior manager of irrigation and water efficiency, tells us what growers need to be monitoring right…
Oroville Dam: Evacuation Order Disrupts Farming in Affected Area
…fellow farmers and community members, “Everybody is just concerned. We don’t know what to expect; we just don’t know what is going to happen,” adding that local irrigation districts are…
Almond Board: Commitment to Research
…traditional flood irrigation to water-saving microirrigation systems · Soil moisture sensors and in-field weather stations that provide important information for determining when irrigation is needed · Sand filters that keep…