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Focusing on goals

November 5th, 2018
How did you use your extra hour this weekend? I pretty much slept through mine. My goal was to get through a bit of a cold and laryngitis. I'm not sure how much it helped. I did also get out to see the sandhill cranes in Woodbridge, as did others that arrived by the bus load.
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October 2018 News Clips (10/16 - 10/31)

November 1st, 2018
By Pamela S Kan-Rice
Researchers studying cover crops near almond orchards (Western Farm Press) Tim Hearden, Oct. 31 University of California Cooperative Extension researchers have started field trials to analyze the benefits and trade-off of planting cover crops near or within almond production systems.
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October 2018 News Clips (10/1 - 10/15)

October 31st, 2018
By Pamela S Kan-Rice
Chico State Hosts "Wildcats Vote" Campaign Forum (Action News Now 12/24) Cecile Juliette, Oct. 15 Ryan Cleland, 4-H Community Education Specialist, said voting is the best way to make a point. "You don't have to engage in the conversations at Thanksgiving or the arguments on TV," Cleland said.
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From left, Lorna Krkich, Greg Gibbs, Maria Fernandez, Kelly Scott, Emily Delk, Mary Ciricillo and Scott Brayton stopped by Tractor Supply in Dixon to buy 4-H Paper Clovers.
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UC ANR shows its 4-H spirit, raises over $80,000 for youth

October 29th, 2018
By Pamela S Kan-Rice
UC ANR's 4-H Youth Development Program raised $80,619 for California youth from its supporters purchasing paper clovers at Tractor Supply for $1 or more Oct. 314, finishing second only to Texas in the 2018 Fall Paper Clover campaign during National 4-H Week.
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Glenda Humiston, left, and CDFA Secretary Karen Ross form ANR-CDFA partnership to help farmers adopt climate-smart agricultural practices. Photo by Evett Kilmartin
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CDFA and UC ANR join forces to advance climate-smart agriculture

October 29th, 2018
Karen Ross, secretary of the California Department of Food and Agriculture, and Vice President Glenda Humiston signed a memorandum of understanding in Sacramento Oct. 26 to initiate a new partnership to advance climate-smart agriculture in California. This partnership will provide $1.
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Sheep at Hopland Research and Extension Center were moved out of the line of the River Fire.
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Livestock and poultry owners asked to take survey on fire impact

October 27th, 2018
By Pamela S Kan-Rice
People raising cattle, sheep, goats, poultry, swine, horses, llamas, alpacas, aquaculture species or other production-oriented animals in California who have experienced at least one wildfire on their property within the last 10 years are being asked to participate in a Fire Impact and Risk Evaluati...
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A High Tunnel in Your Future?

October 26th, 2018
By Ben A Faber
DAVIS, Calif. For Scrivner Hoppe-Glosser, a small farmer in Pleasant Grove, Calif., he can't help but beam at the newest thing to pop up in his farm field.
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