SAFS Newsletters

   

Summer 2007 - Vol. 7/No. 3

 

Articles:

Putting a value on environmental services, quality
(from page 1)

Effects of alternative agricultural practices on pesticide detection, concentration in runoff water
(from page 3)

Taking it to the farm: SAFS field day June 22, 2007

Join us for the annual SAFS field day on June 22 at Muller and Sons farm in Woodland, County Roads 95 and 19. We will present field results on runoff and soil carbon, weed management, county crop production, the soil food web, and the economics of alternative management practices. A grower panel will discuss water quality and reducing farm energy costs. The keynote speaker is Tom Tomich, head of the new UC Davis Agricultural Sustainability Institute, and the UC Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Program. Sign-in at 8 a.m. and stay for lunch; events conclude at 1 p.m. The cost is $5; students and growers are free. Details at http://safs.ucdavis.edu/, or call (530) 754-6497, or email sama@ucdavis.edu or kabir@ucdavis.edu.

—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
Principal Agricultural
Technician Supervisor
  Israel 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 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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