Jan 27, 2011
This year’s strawberry irrigation field day will be held at Sammis ranch on February 18 from 8:00 to 11 am. This program will be in English with simultaneous translation into Spanish. There is no cost to attend.
Scheduled topics include:
- Establishment of large scale reduced irrigation study
- Water use/application and salinity measurements and results
- Plant performance in drip-only and reduced sprinkler systems
- New conditional waiver for irrigated land
- Practices to reduce water, sediment and pesticide movement from the field
- Resources available for growers to comply with the new conditional waiver
Continuous education credits have been requested from DPR. Additional information can be found here.
To insure your participation, or if you have questions, please contact Oleg Daugovish at UCCE: (805) 645-1454 or at odaugovish@ucdavis.edu.
Topics:
- commercial agriculture
- grower education
- Initiative A Clean Water
- Initiative B Abundant Food
- Initiative C Sharing Science
- Initiative D Sustaining Ecosystems
- Initiative I Energy for the Future
- irrigation
- local events
- local research
- local watersheds
- Oleg Daugovish
- Spanish language resource
- strawberry production
- water quality
- water-wise