Sacramento

****UPDATE: DATE MOVED TO FRIDAY APRIL, 22nd TO AVOID RAIN*** Controlling Italian Ryegrass in California Small Grains Friday, April 22, 2022, 8:45 a.m. 10:45 a.m. Intersection of Road 13 and Road 85 Capay, CA 95607 RSVP for Lunch (or use QR Code): https://surveys.ucanr.edu/survey.

Demonstrating Efficient N Fertilizer Management in Practices in California Wheat Thursday, April 28, 2022, 9 a.m. 11:00 a.m. Rominger Brothers Farms ~28519 Co. Rd 29 (between Co Rd 88 and 89), Winters, CA GPS: 38.591652, -121.

UC Cooperative Extension will be hosting two field days this month that may be of interest to rotational crop growers who work with small grains. Full agendas are pending, but mark your calendars in the meantime.

Long dry periods are not uncommon in the Sacramento Valley between January and February. Despite the early season downpours, rainfall for the 2021-22 water year is dropping back to below average (Figure 1), and there is no rain on the near-term horizon.

Farmers and ranchers are invited on a tour to learn how to use cover crops to build soil health.

Join us from 9 a.m.- 10 a.m. on Wednesday, September 29th for a short online demonstration/webinar on several powerful nitrogen management webtools that have been developed by UC researchers, including case studies from this year in the Sacramento Valley.

New Soil Health Connection is posted. In this episode Sarah Light and Liz Harper interview Konrad Mathesius, UC Agronomy Advisor about biosolids. Biosolids are a less well-researched soil amendment.

We're pleased to announce that a new online course on managing ground squirrels and pocket gophers has been added to UC IPM's growing library of online training courses. This course consists of eight video segments recorded by Dr.

Of all the heartache and disappointment the pandemic dealt last year, letting go of camp was one of the most difficult for me. In February, 4-H decided statewide to forego resident camp programs again this summer.

Hello, spring! It's not "officially" spring until we see--and photograph--the spectacular Western tiger swallowtail, Papilio rutulus. One landed March 30 on an aromatic white lilac bush in Alamo Creek Park, Vacaville. It lingered long enough for a few photos and then fluttered away.