In August 2023, California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) confirmed the presence of a new wolf pack in Tulare County. CDFW offers a compensation program to reimburse ranchers for livestock depredations and for new practices implemented to avoid depredation, such as range riding, turbo fladry, and installing game cameras. Learn more about the Compensation Program here.
USDA Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) to Protect Working Grasslands
The CRP is open for continuous enrollment. Enrolled lands earn rent from USDA in exchange for reducing certain uses. Find out more about the 2023 Grasslands CRP enrollment here, or read the Continuous CRP program factsheet here.
Healthy Soils Program
CDFA's Healthy Soils Program (HSP) offers incentives and financial support for agricultural management practices that sustain healthy soils and increase or maintain carbon storage in soils. More information on this initiative can be found here.
Amber Butland, our local Climate Smart Ag expert, can help with applications to HSP and other state programs.
You can read more about soil health on rangelands and pastures here.
As of April 1, 2017, there are new disease traceability/tagging and trichomoniasis (trich) testing requirements in California.
CDFA has summarized the changes in their April newsletter, which you can download here.
Upcoming events - Rangelands and Fire workshops on February 24, in Stockton and online (click for more info) Post-fire Forest Resilience series beginning February 1, online for 7 weeks and in-person on March 16 and 17 (click for more info) Meatpacker Policy Impacts Integrated Crop-Livestock Systems...
Don't miss these great upcoming events - with more details in the newsletter linked in this message. 1. A webinar series each Wednesday evening in March, beginning with a Beef Quality Assurance certification training on March 1. Click here to register for the series. 2.
Save the date! Prescribed Fire Workshop planned for November 5-6 at Shaver Lake. See the flyer for details. Registration is not open yet, but will be available at http://ucanr.edu/2019rxworkshops once open. New job opening: Prescribed Fire Educator, based in Mariposa.
In this brief issue: Fresno County Ranchers seeking additional pasture Upcoming meetings: Beef Cattle Grazing School, April 27-28 Rangeland Weed Management Workshop, May 1...
In this issue: Drought and Forage Focus News Briefs Biochar Forage Futures Forage Quality Early Weaning *Correction: This newsletter has been updated on March 2, 2018. A former version of this newsletter incorrectly named a collaborator in the upcoming weed management workshop.
SB88 / AB589 Water Measurement and Reporting Short Course will be offered on Tuesday, October 23, 2018, from 2:30-6:00PM in Parlier, CA. This is currently the nearest location to Madera County where this course will be offered; however, the training is offered at multiple locations in California.
In this issue - News briefs, hair whorls and cattle temperament, and in-person events coming up this spring: May 8 - Cal-Pac SRM meeting in Rancho Jamul June 3 - Blue Oak Field Day in Fresno County June 18-23 - Range Camp for high school students...
