Madera

Eight members of California Ag Solutions of Madera, CA were hosted at the longstanding NRI Project field in Five Points on Tuesday, June 27th by Jeff Mitchell.

As you can tell by going through archived blogs on this site, medusahead (Taeniatherum caput-medusae) is an extremely popular grass. Well, an infamous one, perhaps. I am fairly certain that none of us actually like it.

In 2005, the University of California and NRCS Conservation Tillage Workgroup, now the Conservation Agriculture Systems Innovation Center, established a series of Innovator Awards as a means for providing greater visibility to Conservation Agriculture pioneers in California.

The CASI (Conservation Agriculture Systems Innovation) Center announced the first of its 2016 innovator awards in a recognition ceremony in Madera on the 16th of August.

Wednesday, June 15th, 2016 10:00 AM T & D Willey Farms, Madera, CA The fourth in our series of five farm visits that are part of the California Farm Demonstration Network will be taking place this Wednesday, June 15th, beginning at 10:00 AM and winding up at about 11:45 AM at the farm of Tom and Den...

The University of California Cooperative Extension (UCCE) is recruiting to fill a Livestock and Natural Resources Advisor position for Fresno and Madera counties. Applications are due Sunday, June 12, 2016. These are great positions. Check out the job announcement below.

Capitalizing on a wet winter, many cover crops established very well in San Joaquin Valley vineyards this year it has not been uncommon to see stands of barley, mustard, and other species grow taller than 3 feet in vineyard interrows.

Three San Joaquin Valley CASI farmers, - Jesse Sanchez of Sano Farms in Firebaugh, Tom Willey of T & D Willey Farms in Madera and Michael Crowell of Bar-Vee Dairy in Turlock, - graciously hosted Gisele Herren, a soil biology PhD researcher from Ghent University in Belgium at their farms on Tuesday,...

It's all over the news...the Aedes aeypti, the daytime-biting mosquito that predominantly feeds on humans.

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