SAFS Newsletters

Winter/Spring 2007 - Vol. 7/No. 2

Articles:

Equipment options: emphasis on reducing energy consumption
(from page 1)

Subsurface drip irrigation, cover crops and conservation tillage effects on greenhouse gas emissions
(from page 3)

New Rotations

Welcome to the Sustainable Agriculture Farming Systems (SAFS) Project, Winter 2007, Vol. 7, No. 2 newsletter. Our fall grower and researcher meetings were exciting and productive. Based on input from farmers, UC Cooperative Extension farm advisors and other members of our research team, we have decided to change our long-term rotations from two to three years, possibly four. The change addresses sustainability issues related to enhancing nitrogen use efficiency and incorporation of reduced tillage practices.

We join the statewide UC Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Program (SAREP) and the new UC Davis campus Agricultural Sustainability Institute (ASI) in welcoming Tom Tomich as the new director of both.

Our newsletter is produced in cooperation with SAREP. These articles continue our efforts to provide information on economically and ecologically sustainable agricultural systems research and management practices for California growers.

—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.edu
Principal Agricultural Technician Supervisor	Israel 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 counties	Kent Brittan, klbrittan@ucdavis.edu

Growers

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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