…– This camp on a small, organic, diversified farm allows kids to learn everything from making and planting beds, adding compost, watering, weeding, and harvesting, to eating and observing. They…
Study Uses Domestic Sheep to Facilitate Sustainable Farming
…However, frequent mechanical tillage can reduce soil integrity, which increases costs for farmers and negatively impacts future crop growth. Now, Montana State University (MSU) researchers are studying an alternate technique…
Nearly $1.5 Million to Two Universities in California to Protect Air Quality in a Changing Climate
…exciting opportunity to learn about air pollution in the future from both state-of-the-art experiments and from computer modelling techniques” said Donald Dabdub, a professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at…
Agri View: Inventions and Agriculture
…Firestone’s dream of putting the farm on rubber was on its way to being reality. 10. Hydraulic Implement Lift with Draft Control: The first tractor mechanical lift appeared in 1927,…
Some Mating Disruption Becoming Cheaper
…disruption from the mechanical devices more affordable. More about codling moth From the UC IPM Website: Codling moth can be very difficult to manage, especially if the population has been…
The Western View: Red Combines
…art. The Western View: Red Combines This new book chronicles the history of one of the most important mechanical devices ever invented. The book is about combine harvesters built by…
Ventilation for Dairy in a New Management Systems
If you are a dairy operator considering a group – housed/group – fed system for calves, look at mechanical ventilation for the barn as well. Rod Bain reports. Ventilation for…
NIMITZ Nematicide Receives State Registration in California
…Applications may include broadcast or banding with mechanical incorporation or through drip-injection. As a ‘true nematicide’, NIMITZ causes irreversible nematicidal activity which results in pest mortality within 48 hours of…
Mechanical Wine Tasting
California’s wine industry depends heavily on trained and gifted wine tasters, who can taste the subtle flavors. But now it seems even that can be done by a machine to…
Juice Grape Harvest
Mechanical grape harvesting of juice grapes is underway in the Central Valley. Some growers are reporting reduced brix content, probably due to the long hot spell with no sustained breaks…
New Product May Change Planting
…with ties to California is showing off its latest… a mechanical planting machine. It’s GPS guided and computerized. And it’s billed as able to plant a 100 acres in an…