Meet produce buyers around the region and build new sales relationships with local grocers, produce distributors, restaurants and more at the Sacramento Meet the Buyers Tour! This tour is designed for beginning and small-medium sized farmers interested in expanding sales to organic and non-organic wholesale buyers.

Tuesday, February 19, 2019 Sacramento Crowne Plaza 5321 Date Avenue Sacramento, CA 95841 (916) 338-5800 AGENDA: 6:45 AM REGISTRATION 7:00 am Laws and Regs Update, Jenni King- County AG Commissioners Office 7:30 am Managing Commensal Rodents, Niamh Quinn, Ph.D., Human … Continue reading →

Thursday, February 21st, 8am-noon
Agenda will be posted closer to the event date.

Friday, February 22nd, 8:30 am - 12:00 pm. Red Bluff Elks Lodge, 355 Gilmore Road, Red Bluff.

Please note date change: February 28th, 12:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Veterans Memorial Hall, 1425 Veteran’s Memorial Circle, Yuba City. Agenda will be posted closer to the event date.

March 6th, 2019, from 8-noon. Additional information will be posted closer to the event.

Join Area IPM and Farm Advisors to discuss current pest management and production issues. These meetings are open to all interested growers, consultants, PCAs, CCAs, and related industry.

March 13th, 2019. Wheatland, CA. We will discuss various walnut training systems and walnut breeding updates,
and see two-year-old Solano and Durham trees, the two newest variety releases.

Tuesday, March 26th, 2019 - Chico, CA 8:30 am to 12:30 pm Location: Chico State University Farm Requesting 3.5 CCA Continuing Education Units 2 CURES Continuing Education Units RSVP to http://ucanr.edu/survey/survey.cfm?surveynumber=26918 Agenda 8:30-9:00-Registration and coffee/treats Group Talks: 9:00-9:30 am- Welcome! … Continue reading →

Please join us at Rolling Hills Casino Event Center in Corning, CA for a regional forum to discuss how local agencies are progressing in the implementation of SGMA. It is vital that local water users understand SGMA and engage in its implementation.

Join Area IPM and Farm Advisors to discuss current pest management and production issues. These meetings are open to all interested growers, consultants, PCAs, CCAs, and related industry.

Join farm advisor Dani Lightle for bi-weekly Morning Meet-Ups: a round table discussion of what she’s been seeing, what you’ve been seeing, and what just isn’t going right. Feel free to bring photos of symptoms or even samples of nuts/ leaves/ branches to evaluate or send into the lab.

Tuesday, May 7, 2019 Registration 8:30 Program 9:00 am - 12:10 pm Arbuckle, CA CCA credit will be requested The complete program announcement will be made in an upcoming “Orchard Notes” newsletter. Please call our office at 530 822-7515 if … Continue reading →

Due to weather, this field meeting will be held during the Annual Nickels Field Day on May 7th. We will discuss hedging and whisking trials since 2016 for 11 year old Chandler planted in a hedgerow. Keep reading for location details.

Spring Prune “Cropload Check” Field Meeting Wednesday, May 8, 2019 9-11 AM R&J Dryer; 2200 Encinal Rd, Live Oak, CA (west of Hwy 99 at LoMo Crossing, N of Yuba City) --Open to all growers and PCAs/CCAs-- At this meeting, … Continue reading →