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California Farm Demonstration Network - CASI Video of Strip-Till Field Day at Marty Poldevarrt MTSJ Dairy in Orland, CA April 20, 2016

A video of last Wednesday's Strip-till Field Day at Marty Poldevarrt's MTSJ Dairy in Orland, CA is now available at You Tube and also at the CASI website.

https://youtu.be/Jbeehf0zfOQ 

 

No-till Garbanzo Field Day Video Available at CASI Website and You Tube

Following the public field day that took place at the UC Field Station in Five Points, CA on Monday, April 18^th, Station Superintendent, Merf Solorio, provided a field interview in which he provided observations of the no-till garbanzo study early in the 2016 season.  The video interview may be seen at the CASI website or at the You Tube link provided below.

A summary of the field day will appear in the California Farm Bureau Federation's AG ALERT in an upcoming issue.

https://youtu.be/9NE3a_gYyaM

 

Video of Dr. Li Hongwen’s April 15th seminar presentation

The video of Dr. Li Hongwen's April 15^th seminar presentation at the University of California, Davis on “Residue Handling for No-tillage Seeders in the World” is now available at the CASI website or at the You Tube link  https://youtu.be/q9nPRqX3Ic4

 

 

SJV CASI Farmers host soil biology researcher from Ghent University in Belgium

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, April 5^th. The farm visits were conducted as part of Gisele's ongoing research that is seeking to characterize communities of nematodes related to the various functional services they provide in soils that have received various organic amendment materials and that have been managed with reduced disturbance practices.

This work is being coordinated in conjunction with Gisele's team in Ghent and also with UC Davis mentorship of Howard Ferris. Gisele's family has a farm in the Capay Valley in Yolo County and her father, Hans Herren, was the first Swiss to receive the 1995 World Food Prize and the 2013 Right Livelihood Award for leading a major biological pest management campaign in Africa, successfully fighting the Cassava mealybug and averting a major food crisis that could have claimed an estimated 20 million lives https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Rudolf_Herren.

2015 CT Farmer Innovator Award Recipient Charlie Rominger Recognition Ceremony

2015 CT Farmer Innovator Award Recipient Charlie Rominger Recognition Ceremony

December 2, 2015

Video available at YouTube

The story about Charlie Rominger is posted in a blog article below.  A video of the recognition ceremony honoring Charlie Rominger as the 2015 Conservation Tillage Farmer Innovator Award recipient is available at the following YouTube site.

 https://youtu.be/1u4irdOdlgo 

 

 

 

 

 

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