SAFS Newsletters

Fall 2008 - Vol. 9/No. 1

Articles:

Grower panel: How local farmers cope with soaring energy costs
(from page 1)

Cover crops and conservation tillage increase mycorrhizal colonization of corn and tomato roots
(from page 3)

Harvest at Russell Ranch

Welcome to the Russell Ranch/SAFS Project, Fall 2008, Vol. 9/No. 1 newsletter, which presents research results from the UC Davis Russell Ranch Sustainable Agriculture Facility. The articles here continue our efforts to provide information on sustainable research and management practices for California growers. The research described is based on experiments with the Sustainable Agriculture Farming Systems (SAFS) project, which is funded through 2009 by CalFed.

—Will Horwath, project leader

Principal Investigators

Crop Ecology	Louise Jackson
Crop Production	Steve Temple
Economics	Karen Klonsky
Entomology	Frank Zalom
Hydrology	Wes Wallender
Nematology	Howard Ferris
Plant Pathology	Lynn Epstein
Soil Microbiology	Kate Scow, Deputy Director ASI
Soil Fertility	Will Horwath
Soil & Water Relations	Jeff Mitchell
Weed Ecology	Tom Lanini

Technical Staff

Research Manager	Martin Burger
Technical & Facilities Supervisor	Dennis Bryant, Crop Production Manager
Principal Agricultural Technician Supervisor	Israel Herrera
Project Technicians	Brittany Smith

Technical Advisors

UC Cooperative Extension Farm Advisors,
Yolo & Solano counties

Gene Miyao, Kent Brittan

Growers

Jim Durst, Frank Muller, Scott Park, Bruce Rominger, Ed Sills, Tony Turkovich

UC Sustainable Agriculture Research & Education Program (SAREP) Cooperating Outreach Staff

Publications Editor	Lyra Halprin
Web Development	James Cannon

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