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California Ag Today
by California Ag Today
Podcast by Patrick Cavanaugh
Episodes
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Plants Do Not Use Water....Instead....They Borrow it!
Did you know that plants such as almonds do not truly use water....They borrow it! Please share this podcast with the naysayers!
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Stuart Woolf on Zero Allocation, Pushing Almonds, Reservoirs and SGMA
Stuart Woolf is President and CEO of Woolf Farming and Processing. The farming operation produces almonds, pistachios, tomatoes, grapes, onions, garlic, wheat, hay and various other row crops. He noted how tough the 2021 production season is, with a zero water allocation.
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California PCAs Need Their Voices Heard!
Anthony LaFauce is with the Clyde Group -- a Washington D.C.-based communications and public relations firm. He is also an adjunct in the School of Communications Dept. at American University. He suggests ways for PCAs to get heard!
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Alex Ott: Consumers Need More Education About Pecans
Alex Ott is the Executive Director of the American Pecan Council--- where the focus is increasing consumer consumption of pecans
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Sonora High School FFA Students Chris Ramos, left, and Cameron Christie Are Working with Compost
The Sonora FFA students are insulating compost in order to warm it up so that earthworms have a better survival rate.
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UC PhD Student Katie Driver is researching Bearded Sprangletop weed in rice.
Bearded Sprangletop is a troublesome weed in rice that is getting more difficult to control. Katie Driver is trying to solve the problem.
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Fresno State Student Priyanka Chaudhari Studying Glyphosate Resistant Weeds
Chaudhari and here Professors are finding the reason Hairy Fleabane is Glyphosate Resistance.
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Dennis Donohue On AgTecX.MP3
Dennis Donohue, the Director of the Western Growers Center for Innovation & Technology speaks about the recent AgTechx event in cooperation with Bayer Crop Science at Bayer's West Sacramento Biologics Research Facility.
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UC Farm Advisor David Haviland Discusses Navel Orangeworm Mating Disruption
Some tree nut growers should consider using mating disruption, while other growers may not need to use the strategy.
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Hans Specht is with Arable and Explains a Great Product to Help Growers
Arable Mark is a sensor that reports weather data and measures plant health.
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Steven Haring a UC Davis 2nd Year PhD Student is Researching Cover Crops in Orchards
Steven Haring is trying to develop winter/spring cover crops to out-compete winter annual weeds.
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William Bourdeau on the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act
William Bourdeau VP Harris Farms in Coalinga, a Director of Westlands Water District and Chair of the Board with CA WaterAlliance. He speaks about the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act.
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Jennifer Olmstead with the CA Walnut Board and Commission Discusses Domestic Market
Jennifer Olmstead Marketing Director, Domestic PR at California Walnut Board/California Walnut Commission discusses the domestic market and explained how the Walnut Board is expanding its promotion of walnuts in the U.S.
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James Paterson With Aerobotics Explains How Overhead Imagery Works
Aerobotics is a Cape Town South Africa company expanding into California with technology that can detect early pest and diseases in orchards and vineyards.
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Richard Waycott, President and CEO of the Almond Board Discusses the Vision and Mission of the Board
The Amond Board continues to think into the future with a new Vision and Mission statement.
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Part 2 Daren Williams, Almond Board on Almond Versality
Almonds are healthy, versatile and great portable protein.
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Part 1 Podcast: Daren Williams, Dir. Global Communications with the Almond Board
Almond Board is increasing consumer awareness of the California Almond Industry.
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Podcast 1 Arnold Torres Regarding the Divide Between Urban And Ag
California has its own flyover areas and the farming industry is not happy. Arnold Torres says that the Hispanic population should help change that!
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Melissa Williams, Public Affairs with MID Regarding Water Board's Passing 40 percent Water Grab
The California Water Resources Control Board has voted to pursue taking up to 40 percent of unimpaired flows from the Tuolumne, Stanislaus and Merced Rivers. This would put the cities and farming into abject peril.
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Houston Wilson On The Importance of Mummy Nut Sanitation in Almonds
Houston Wilson is a Assistant Cooperative Extension Specialist with the Department of Entomology at UC Riverside
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Mark Kline, Hershey Co, Explains the Value of CA Almond to Many Brands
Mark Kline is Senior Manager of Energy and Nut Purchasing at Hershey Co. He explains the value of Almonds for the company.
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Journalist Don Wright on SGMA
Don Wright with WaterWrights.net Comments on Recent SGMA Meeting at Fresno State
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Mel Machado, with Blue Diamond Growers, On Navel Orangeworm Control
Mel Machado says the tree nut industry must pull every lever to reduce navel orangeworm (NOW). The last few years, NOW has been very costly to growers.
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Phoebe Gordon on Growing The Valley Podcast
Phoebe Gordon, and Luke Milliron, Both UCCE Orchard Systems Farm Advisors, Collaborate on the Growing The Valley Podcast
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Secretary of Ag Sonny Purdue and Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zenke On Good Forest Management
Secretary of Ag Sonny Purdue and Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zenke on good forest management. They also comment on how radical environmentalist file lawsuits any time a tree needs to be cut in the forest.
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Neil Knaak with Fieldin
There is an easy and accurate way to keep track of the spray rig operator. Is he going to fast, taking longer breaks, or skipping rows? Fieldin will let you know fast.
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Beekeepers Rick Rasmussen and his son Ethan Speak About the Bee Where Program
The Bee Where program aims to protect pollination bees from crop protection products. And there is an added benefit in it possibly preventing theft.
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Ruthann Anderson, CAPCA President and CEO on Protecting Bees
Ruthann Anderson explains a program where beekeepers must register the location of bees in the spring so that care can be taken with crop protection product applications.
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Dr. Paula Rivadeneira On Reducing Bird Problems in Produce Fields
Dr. Paula Rivadeneira is working to find a solution to birds flying around produce fields. Yes, the birds poop and that could be a food safety problem.
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Mario Santoyo On Trumps Executive Order For More Water for Farmers
Mario Santoyo is Executive Director of the San Joaquin Valley Water Infrastructure Authority, with the goal of building the Temperance Flat Reservoir. He noted President Trump's Executive order on Oct. 19 is a great step in the right direction.
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Podcast With Jesse Rojas On ALRB Certifying The Gerawan Worker Vote
Gerawan Workers Voted No on UFW Union and ALRB certifed it.
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Kathleen Nave with CA Table Grape Commission On How Table Grapes Can Prevent Chronic Diseases
Kathleen Nave with CA Table Grape Commission On How Table Grapes Can Prevent Chronic Diseases by Patrick Cavanaugh
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Dan Gerawan Fears that Many Employee Votes May be Challenged
On Sept. 12, 2018 The California Supreme Court rejected the ALRB's appeal to not count the votes of Gerawan workers who wanted to decertify the UFW Union. That vote was held November 2013. Dan Gerawan is co-owner of Gerawan Farming fears if the ballots are ever counted that many may be challenged.
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Joel Nelsen, President of Calif Citrus Mutual Speaks out about the Trade War
The Trump Trade War is grinding on and commodity groups are hoping that cooler heads will prevail and end this stalemate
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Dan Munk, UC Cooperative Extension Farm Advisor On the 2018 Cotton Crop
The 2018 Cotton Crop is progressing well, however, some late-season pest must be controlled to maintain cotton lint quality.
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Beware of Big Problem in Travel Time Compensation for Workers
Labor Attorney Michael Saqui Says Ag Industry Must Be Engaged Re: Possible Travel Time Compensation for Field Workers
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Paul Wenger On Better Forest Management
Paul Wenger is an almond and walnut farmer in Stanislaus County. He is also the former President of the California Farm Bureau Federation. He notes that the environmental community is in part responsible for the devastating wildfires in California.
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Paul Wenger Says Glyphosate Verdict is Wrong
Paul Wenger Farms Walnuts and Almonds in Stanislaus County. He is also the past president of the California Farm Bureau Federation.
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Paul Wenger Says Roundup Verdict Was Wrong
Paul Wenger Says Roundup Verdict Was Wrong by Patrick Cavanaugh
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Using More Data On The Farm
Danny Royer is Vice President of Technology with Bowles Farming in Los Banos. Bowles Farming is part of a 160-year-old farming company going back to the famed Miller and Lux Company, which was also headquartered in Los Banos. Henry Miller played a major role in the development of much of the San...
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Western Growers Center for Innovation and Technology Brings Startups Together
Dennis Donahue, Consulting Director of Western Growers Center for Innovation and Technology, On Ag Technology
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UFW Holds Unfair Meeting, ALRB Rules Against The Union
Jesse Rojas with Pick Justice Said the ALRB Issued a Recent Ruling in Favor of Gerawan Farm Workers
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Brian Curtis With Concentric Power
Brian Curtis is the founder and CEO of Concentric Power---the next generation provider of smart microgrid systems that adapts proven technology to create on-site, dispatchable power using modular cogeneration systems. It fully optimizes energy efficiency and controls costs. concentricpower.com
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Cindy Smith, Gowan Ag Relations Director On How the Dynamic Company
Cindy Smith is the Agricultural Relations Director with the Yuma-based Gowan Co. She speaks about the company, which his grown globally.
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Jesse Rojas with Pick Justice on Giving Gerawan Farm Workers Justice
On May 30, 2018, the Fifth District Court of Appeal in Fresno issued a unanimous decision that the ALRB must count the Gerawan farm workers votes, which were cast in 2013. A recent motion by Attorney Anthony Raimondo is again pushing for the vote count.
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Ag Suffers Collateral Damage in China and Canada Trade Fight
Tom Nassif, President, and CEO of Western Growers Association, Irvine CA, on ideas to help ag not suffer from collateral damage.
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Using Nitrogen Fixing Soil Micros to Reduce the Need for Nitrogen Fertilizers
Sarah Bloch is a Senior Scientist with Berkeley-based Pivot Bio, a company sourcing soil micros that can fix nitrogen gas from the soil and convert it to ammonia that the plants can use. The aim is to help farmers reduce the need for nitrogen fertilizers
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Podcast With Matt Doyle Carriere Family Farms
Food safety is critically important to all California farmers, however, Carriere Farmily Farmsmade a commitment to raise the bar even higher. In fact, they earned a Pinnacle Award from the Safe Food Alliance!
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Protecting Produce with Maximum Residue Level (MRL) Information
Gary Van Sickle is the executive director of California Specialty Crops Council, which hosts the annual MRL Conference in San Francisco.
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A Survey Shows That Consumers are Confused about Food
Tamika Sims, Director, Food Technology Communications, with the International Food Information Council (IFIC) Foundation, based in Washington D.C. She explains how consumers are confused about food.
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