Free Bird-Friendly Farming Workshops

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…Joaquin River Delta to support additional crops. The program is available in the following counties: Contra Costa, Sacramento, San Joaquin, Solano, Yolo, Butte, Sutter, Colusa, Glenn, Placer and Yuba. Interested…

UC Studies Outline Costs of Tomato Irrigation Systems

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…and other agricultural associates. Assumptions used to identify current costs for individual crops, material inputs, cash and non-cash overhead are described. A ranging analysis table shows profits over a range…

Farm Bill and ARC/PLC Decision Aid Tool Workshops

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…use broad assumptions related to commodity estimates for a multi-year period and provide farmers an opportunity to enter variables such as crops, acres, yields, and prices as part of their…

WUD, NRCS, and Audubon California Working Together

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…be supplied with water and planted with crops preferred by tricolored blackbirds. A survey of Tricolored Blackbirds completed last year showed that the bird’s has declined 44 percent since 2011,…

Western View: California Warming

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…frost-sensitive insects survive warm winters. But also, increasing temperatures allow higher rates of growth, survival, and reproduction in insect populations. Overall, they like the heat and do well in it….