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USDA video campaign on soil health
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The “Iron Wolf” and whole orchard recycling – from the California Almond Board
California almond growers are examining new ways to deal with tree biomass produced by the removal of old orchards other than cogeneration burning. While sending the biomass to cogeneration converts the wood to electricity, returning the wood back to the soil would return the nutrients and energy back to the soil ecosystem. Thus, one concept getting closer attention is whole …
Posted in Environment, Healthy soils, Uncategorized
Tagged Almond Board of California, UC Davis
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COMET-Farm: Science-based Tools to help Specialty Crop Growers
Agricultural food production and the relationship with the air, water and soil systems is complex, both from scientific and practical perspectives. Bringing the scientific interrelationships into a user-friendly on-line tool to help agricultural producers understand their entire farming operation’s carbon footprint is the challenge that the U.S. Department of Agriculture Natural Resources Conservation Services (USDA-NRCS) and Colorado State University undertook …
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Tagged Colorado State University, COMET-Farm, NRCS, USDA
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Firebaugh farmer honored by White House for soil health techniques: from the Fresno Bee
By Megan Ginise, The Fresno Bee On the outskirts of the western San Joaquin Valley, amid one of the worst droughts in California history, Jesse Sanchez is making waves with his agricultural techniques. Sanchez, 63, is the farm manager at Sano Farms, a 4,000-acre operation near Firebaugh and Mendota that grows garbanzo beans, garlic, almonds, pistachios, and processing and fresh …
Posted in Climate Change, Environment, Healthy soils
Tagged Champions of Change, Firebaugh, Jesse Sanchez, Sano Farms
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