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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