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Australian vegetable crop consultants and farmer network coordinators Mike Titley (left) and David Vernon (center), meet with Pinnacles Organic farmer, Phil Foster at his farm in Hollister, CA on August 15, 2019

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Aussie veg croppers visit Jesse Sanchez, Phil Foster and NRI Project in Five Points!

August 16th, 2019

By Jeffrey P Mitchell

August 15, 2019 Mike Titley and David Vernon, two vegetable farming consultants and farmer network coordinators in Australia, had a wonderful visit on August 15th with Jesse Sanchez in Firebaugh and Phil Foster in Hollister, after having first met and toured CASI's NRI Project field in Five Points.

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Drs. Samuel Araya (right) and Teamrat Ghezzehei of UC Merced immediately following the successful PhD defense by Araya, August 13, 2019 on the UC Merced campus

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Araya defends PhD dissertation at UC Merced!

August 14th, 2019

By Jeffrey P Mitchell

August 13, 2019 Samuel Araya is a new PhD at UC Merced! On August 13, 2019, in the Science and Engineering 2 building on the UCM campus, he successfully defended his PhD research before a review committee of four professors and about thirty well-wishers who took part in the public seminar part of hi...

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Mazarine Foustel visiting CASI’s longstanding NRI Project in Five Points, CA that is comparing reduced disturbance and biodiverse cover crop systems versus standard tillage and no cover crop approaches now for twenty years

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Dwayne Beck Protegée, Mazarine Foustel, Visits CASI's NRI Project field in Five Points!

August 12th, 2019

By Jeffrey P Mitchell

August 8, 2019 Right off an intensive two-month internship with South Dakota Hall of Famer, Dwayne Beck, University of Bordeaux agricultural engineering student, Mazarine Foustel, took part in a whirlwind tour of a number of California agricultural sites and met with a number of CASI Workgroup membe...

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Dr. Amelie Gaudin (left) visiting the no-till dairy silage field of Turlock, CA farmer, Michael Crowell.

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Gaudin and Light will serve on the Western Cover Crop Council on behalf of California!

August 12th, 2019

By Jeffrey P Mitchell

August 10, 2019 Drs.

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CASI’s Monte Bottens, President of ANP in Moline, IL, and farmer with his dad, Bob Bottens, at Bottens Family Farm in Sherrard, IL hosting a group of California Ag Solutions visitors and Jeff Mitchell on July 31, 2019

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CASI's Bottens hosts CA visitors at his farm in Sherrard, IL July 31, 2019!

August 5th, 2019

By Jeffrey P Mitchell

July 31, 2019 A group of about six members of California Ag Solutions along with CASI's Jeff Mitchell were treated to a simply fantastic and very eye-opening tour of the Bottens Family Farm on July 31st near the small northwestern IL town of Sherrard, IL by long-time Workgroup member, Monte Bottens.

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