Crop Production
With funding provided by USDA-NRCS, the project will deploy Extension personnel to perform demonstrations, provide on-farm consultations, and conduct outreach activities to promote locally appropriate best practices.
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Drought means deeper wells, and deeper wells mean less quality groundwater. But a 60% predicted loss in almonds – and a reality closer to 30% – is showing that while almond trees are still salt sensitive, perhaps it's less than expected.
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University of California Cooperative Extension and other experts will cover the selection, equipment and other considerations needed for managing a successful cover crop.
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Two and a half million honeybee colonies will be moved to pollinate 1.3 million bearing almond acres. Costs are up, habitats are down, and California agriculture officials will begin assessing civil penalties for violations of laws that protect bees.
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Drawing on a similar customer base, BioSafe and BVT will partner their biologicals and bee vectoring technologies, respectively.
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Curriculum development begins immediately, will be fully implemented by June 2025, and will assist 2,750 students and specially train 330 professors in California colleges.
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With California's new composting laws in effect, a working group of multiple regulatory agencies has provided online resources to help growers compost in compliance.
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The bid for a preliminary injunction was denied, with the court saying worker protections outweigh the burden placed on employers to provide safety. A revised version of the rule goes into effect Jan. 14.
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