USDA's Brennan hosts Fresno State's Shrestha and Brazil's Botelho!

Eric Brennen, Anil Shrestha, and Roberto Botelho

Eric Brennan, the well-renowned USDA ARS organic vegetable systems researcher in Salinas, CA provided a simply wonderful and very gracious hosting of Anil Shrestha, also a well-recognized weed ecologist and professor at Fresno State University and Roberto Botelho, a leading no-till vegetable researcher in Sao Paolo state Brazil on March 1, 2018 at the USDA ARS long-term organic research plots.  Brennan provided a wealth of information and content based on his career's worth of organic production systems research for a video that Shrestha is working on as part of a CDFA Specialty Crop Block Grant Program project that is preparing a series of 30 videos for use in courses at Fresno State, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, Chico State and UC Davis.  The video will feature information Brennan has developed on the use of cover crops in organic vegetable production systems and it will feature his vast and quite unique experiences with all aspects of cover cropping in these systems.   

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