Conservation Agriculture

February 3, 2025 The California Chapter of the American Society of Agronomy is holding its 2025 Annual Conference on Thursday, February 6th and Friday, February 7th at the Wyndham Hotel 9000 W Airport Dr, Visalia, CA.

February 1, 2025 A detailed timeline of advances in tillage management in California has been prepared by a large group of CASI partners for possible publication in an upcoming article about the history of conservation agriculture in the state.

January 23, 2025 Cary Crum, longstanding CASI Workgroup member and consulting agronomist with Agritechnovation, out of Clovis, CA, recently spoke about his observations on increases in cover crop seed sales and acreage in the San Joaquin Valley. The recording is available below.

January 8, 2025 A group of four authors, Robert Willmott, Jennifer Valdez-Herrera, Jeff Mitchell, and Anil Shrestha, have published the article, Potential of Cover Crop Use and Termination with a Roller-Crimper in a Strip-Till Silage Maize (Zea mays L.

July 5, 2024 CASI's Jeff Mitchell was a "three-peater" July 5th on Tom Willey's "Down on the farm" radio program on KFCF's 88.1 FM station on July 5, 2024.