SAFS Newsletters
 
   
Winter/Spring 2006 - Vol. 6/No. 2

 

Articles:

Long-term comparison of yield and nitrogen use in organic, winter legume cover crop and conventional farming systems
(from page 1)

Can winter cover cropping improve water quality of tail-water discharge?
(from page 3)

SAFS Update: Welcome to the Sustainable Agriculture Farming Systems (SAFS) Project, Winter/Spring 2006, Vol. 6/No.2 newsletter, which presents research results from the UC Davis Center for Integrated Farming Systems (CIFS). CIFS is the result of the merger of the campus’ SAFS project and Long Term Research on Agriculture Systems (LTRAS) project. The articles here continue our efforts to provide useful information on economically and ecologically sustainable research and management practices for California growers. We are pleased to work with the statewide UC Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Program (SAREP) on outreach.

Note: Please join us for our annual field day tentatively scheduled for late June 2006. Stay tuned.

—Will Horwath, project leader


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; Frank Muller, jmsyvsm@aol.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

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