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Winter/Spring 2007 - Vol. 7/No. 2
Articles:
Equipment options: emphasis on reducing energy consumption
(from page 1)Subsurface drip irrigation, cover crops and conservation tillage effects on greenhouse gas emissions
(from page 3)
Welcome to the Sustainable Agriculture Farming Systems (SAFS) Project, Winter 2007, Vol. 7, No. 2 newsletter. Our fall grower and researcher meetings were exciting and productive. Based on input from farmers, UC Cooperative Extension farm advisors and other members of our research team, we have decided to change our long-term rotations from two to three years, possibly four. The change addresses sustainability issues related to enhancing nitrogen use efficiency and incorporation of reduced tillage practices.
We join the statewide UC Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Program (SAREP) and the new UC Davis campus Agricultural Sustainability Institute (ASI) in welcoming Tom Tomich as the new director of both.
Our newsletter is produced in cooperation with SAREP. These articles continue our efforts to provide information on economically and ecologically sustainable agricultural systems research and management practices for California growers.
—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.eduPrincipal Agricultural
Technician SupervisorIsrael Herrera, igherrera@ucdavis.edu Project Technician Stephanie Ma, sama@ucdavis.edu - SAFS Technical Advisors
UC Cooperative Extension Gene Miyao, emmiyao@ucdavis.edu Farm Advisors, Yolo &
Solano countiesKent Brittan, klbrittan@ucdavis.edu - Growers
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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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