San Benito

Please join the San Benito County Weed Management Area for our 17th Annual Continuing Education Seminar for Ranchers on December 5 from 8:00 am to 12:15 pm at the Hollister Veterans Memorial Building: 649 San Benito Street, Hollister.

This past spring a San Benito County rancher came to my office with a weed from her property. She said it had been on the property for decades; she thought she knew what it was, but wasn't 100% sure.

Here's a message from the Pajaro Compass about their upcoming meeting. WHEN:Wednesday, October 24th, 8:30 am noon WHERE: Veterans Memorial Building, Room 218, 649 San Benito Street, Hollister RSVP: Please follow the link HERE to RSVP, or email karminder.brown@gmail.com for more information.

A few Livestock Advisors in Central California are interested in developing a research project on oaks and we want to make sure the project will be valuable to you! I'm hoping you will be willing to take 3 minutes to fill out a survey about why oaks are important to you and what info you need about...

Are you a rancher who is interested in figuring out ways to reduce costs? Are you thinking about going into the cattle business? Or are you a staff person at an agency that uses livestock grazing as a land management tool, and want to better understand how ranching works?

In 2018 I clipped and weighed forage production (grasses and forbs) from four ranches in San Benito County, two ranches in Monterey County, and four ranches in Santa Cruz County.

A new study on the costs and returns of a beef cattle operation has been released by the University of California Agriculture and Natural Resources' Agricultural Issues Center. The estimated costs can help ranchers and land management agencies on California's Central Coast make business decisions.

Cuando los productores estn considerando desempear un nuevo cultivo, y piensan en sus gastos y ingresos, estimaciones de costos de la Universidad de California pueden ayudar.

The recent California Agriculture magazine (April-June 2018 issue) has a couple of interesting articles: by Elizabeth Mosqueda, California State University; Richard Smith, Monterey, San Benito and Santa Cruz counties; Dave Goorahoo, California State University; and Anil Shrestha, California State Un...

Conozca los retos en la produccin de fresa y el xito de un inmigrante mexicano en el cultivo orgnico de la fruta. Las frutas aportan fibra, vitaminas, minerales, antioxidantes, sustancias fitoqumicas como flavonoides, antioxidantes y otros nutrientes.