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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
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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.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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