Alfalfa, Dry Beans & Field Corn
Crops
- Alfalfa Program Information
- Dry Beans Program Information
- Field Corn Program Information
Newsletters
- Field Crop Notes - timely production information on alfalfa, dry bean, sugarbeet, corn and wheat production. Meeting announcements for these same crops
CIMIS Weather
Linked data is from the California Irrigation Management Information System (CIMIS) weather stations. Visit CIMIS web site.
Fresno County Stations
- Coalinga
- Firebaugh/Telles, Firebaugh
- Five Points South West, Five Points
- FivePoints/WSFS USDA, Five Points
- Fresno State, Fresno
- Orange Cove
- Panoche, Firebaugh
- Parlier
- Westlands, Tranquility
Kings County Stations
Tulare County Stations
- Alpaugh
- Lindcove
- Porterville
- Visalia/ICI Americas, Visalia
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UCCE Tulare County Calendar
| Event Name | Date |
|---|---|
| Blueberry Open House & Tasting | 5/23/2012 |
| Insect ID- Scouting- Spray Evaluation & Resistance Management Workshop | 5/24/2012 |
Current Topics
Rain-fed winter cover crops offer multiple benefits at low cost
Even on the west side of the San Joaquin Valley, where average rainfall is a mere 7 inches per year, farmers can reap the benefits of winter cover crops without the expense of irrigation, University of California research has found. Growing a winter...
Local conservation ag expert featured in No-Till Farmer magazine
A longstanding member of the UC Conservation Agriculture Systems Initiative, Monte Bottens, is featured with his father in the March 2012 issue of No-Till Farmer magazine. Monte and Bob Bottens are a father-son no-till team in Cambridge, Ill. The...
Looking ahead to conservation agriculture success
The UC Conservation Agriculture Systems Initiative challenges Californians to look 100 years, or even 500 years, into the future and imagine how today’s common agricultural practices will have impacted the environment and society. The United Nations...
Student honored for conservation ag research
Congratulations to Joy Hollingsworth, a first-year graduate student working with Dr. Anil Shrestha in the Department of Plant Science at CSU Fresno, for having been awarded the 2012 Student Paper and Poster Contest Award from the California Weed Science...
UC launches “Conservation Agriculture Systems Initiative” Jan. 27
A diverse group of public and private sector agricultural professionals are joining the University of California to form the Conservation Agriculture Systems Initiative (CASI), an organization that will be formally launched at a public meeting Jan. 27 in...

