Farms and Agricultural Fields

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2025 California Date Palm Workshop

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Apr 23 2025

Join us for the upcoming 2025 California Date Palm Workshop event where you will learn about date production. There will be presentations on irrigation, nutrients, disease, pests, and regulations. “The workshop brings together researchers, growers and stakeholders to discuss recent research…
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Purple lupins
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Hopland Hikes - Wildflowers

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Apr 12 2025

Join Dr. Jennifer Riddell, local biologist and Cathy Monroe of the California Native Plant Society (Sanhedrin Chapter) to visit the beautiful wildflowers at the UC Hopland Research and Extension Center.The hike will be around 2-3 miles, at a wildflower pace (slow to take in what we discover). We expect to…
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The buds shown on the walnut branches are male flowers called catkins
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UC scientists ask walnut trees: When do you need to be irrigated?

April 16th, 2025
By Trina Kleist
UC scientists are working with growers in Tehama, Butte, Lake, Amador, Contra Costa, Stanislaus and Yolo counties to test a new way of measuring the irrigation needs of walnut trees. Shackel and team think this new method will allow growers to use less water by not irrigating early in the season, and trees…
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2025 Second Report-- April 16th

April 16th, 2025
By Patricia A Lazicki, Neil McRoberts
General situationThe oldest tomatoes have been in ground for more than a month, and planting is progressing rapidly. The warm weather in the past two weeks has pushed thrips population projections forward by a few days compared to the last report. Thrips populationFirst-generation adults are still…
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Survey on AI Chatbots in Farming

April 11th, 2025
This short survey aims to gather your valuable insights on how a specialized agricultural chatbot could assist with your day-to-day farming operations. You can either test our prototype and compare it with ChatGPT, or simply share which features would be most beneficial for your specific farming context.The…
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Ngodoo Atume with farmer
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Statewide team to assist small farms with SGMA

April 2nd, 2025
By Ngodoo Atume, Kristen Farrar
California relies on groundwater - water stored in underground aquifers and pumped through wells - for up to 41% of water supply in normal years and up to 60% during times of drought. In 2014, the California legislature signed into law the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SGMA) with the primary goal…
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