SAFS - Newsletters

These articles continue the SAFS’ project efforts to provide growers information on farming practices and research that address environmental issues in California agriculture. The page one article reviews the economic performance of sustainable farming practices based on 2004 project tomato/corn data. The page three article draws on project collaboration with growers to provide information on the effect of conservation tillage and cover crops on the amount and quality of water from winter runoff and summer irrigation return.

SAFS Principal Investigators

Crop Ecology	Louise Jackson, lejackson@ucdavis.edu
Crop Production	Steve Temple, srtemple@ucdavis.edu
Economics	Karen Klonsky, klonsky@primal.ucdavis.edu
Entomology	Frank Zalom, fgzalom@ucdavis.edu
Hydrology	Wes Wallender, wwwallender@ucdavis.edu
Nematology	Howard Ferris, hferris@ucdavis.edu
Plant Pathology	Lynn Epstein, lepstein@ucdavis.edu
Soil Microbiology	Kate Scow, kmscow@ucdavis.edu
Soil Fertility	Will Horwath, wrhorwath@ucdavis.edu
Soil & Water Relations	Jeff Mitchell, mitchell@uckac.edu
Weed Ecology	Tom Lanini, wtlanini@ucdavis.edu

SAFS Technical Staff

Research Manager	Z. Kabir, kabir@ucdavis.edu
Crop Production Manager	Dennis Bryant, LTRAS associate director dcbryant@ucdavis.edu
Web Content Development	Sam Prentice, seprentice@ucdavis.edu

SAFS Technical Advisors

UC Cooperative Extension	Gene Miyao, emmiyao@ucdavis.edu
Farm Advisors, Yolo & Solano Counties	Kent Brittan, klbrittan@ucdavis.edu

Growers

Jim Durst, jdurst@onemain.com; Scott Park, parkfarm@syix.com; Bruce Rominger, brrominger@ucdavis.edu; Ed Sills, esills@earthlink.com; Tony Turkovich, tturk@bigvalley.net

UC Sustainable Agriculture Research & Education Program (SAREP)

Cooperating Outreach Staff Publications Editor	Lyra Halprin, lhalprin@ucdavis.edu
Web Development	James Cannon, safsweb@ucdavis.edu
PowerPoint Development	Linda Fugitt, llfugitt@ucdavis.edu

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