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Small Farms: Stories of success and struggle
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UC small farm advisor Richard Molinar, left, and his assistant Michael Yang, center, give Fresno County farmer Ka Neng Vang tips about strawberry production... Photo by Jack Kelly Clark
Trade outlook: Asian markets recover
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A Korean container ship heads through Golder Gate toward points east after receiving freight at the Port of Oakland, the top exporting port on the West Coast. In 1998, one-third of the freight shipped from Oakland was agricultural commodities. See pages 6 and 7... © Robert Campbell, Courtesy Port of Oakland
Can organic cotton hold its own?
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When this pink flower falls off, the developing cotton boll beneath it will begin to expand. California's organic cotton industry is small but growing, drawing on knowledge developed from integrated pest management (see pages 7,9)... Photo by Zack Griffin ©
Cultivating wildlife
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Growers and ranchers are creating ponds and taking other steps to make farmland hospitable to greater sandhill cranes and other waterfowl ... Photos by B. Moose Peterson / WRP
Special Edition: Exotic pest update
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Though accidently introduced to California, the false peacock fly may be a powerful new weapon against yellow starhistle, the state's most widespread weed. Scientists are also testing bio-controls, herbicides and mowing. Photo by Gerry Johnson
Bay-Delta debate: Who will get the water?
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The Bay-Delta is the largest estuary on the west coast of the Americas and is home to 750 species of plants and animals. The Bay-Delta also supplies drinking water to two-thirds of Californians and irrigates 7 million acres of farmland. With a watershed that drains more than a thrid of the state, the Delta's inflow averages 24 million acre feet per year but has dipped as much as 75% in drought years. More than 7,000 water projects divert 20% to 70% of the Delta's natural flow.
November-December 1999
Volume 53, Number 6
Volume 53, Number 6