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Subject: Airless Irrigation Tires
Has Anyone heard of the GAlileo CupWheel Airless IrriCups?
The difference between the rats of STD tires and those of IrriCups is pretty amazing...
In Topics Water & Irrigation
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Subject: CelticFunding Ltd is your debt solution center.
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In Topics Business & Financial Planning, Funding Opportunities
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Subject: Your interest or referrals to partner in a new farm
In Topics Business & Financial Planning, Anything Goes
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Subject: The Moment for Food Sovereignty is Now
New piece published today! In the time of COVID-19, The Moment for Food Sovereignty is Now: From panic planting to cooperative gardens, farmers focused on equity and food justice know that ‘if you can feed yourself, you can free yourself.’
https://civileats.com/2020/04/02/the-moment-for-food-sovereignty-is-now/
In Topics Seed & Planting, News & Events
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Subject: Last Call! Join (free) Fire Resilience Online Course for Farmers & Ranchers
Hi all,
Are you overwhelmed thinking about how to face a future of intensifying wildfires? Join our newest 7 week online course: “Farmers Build Fire Resilience, Feb 13-March 26 2020” to help you face a future of fires. Free to farmers and ranchers, though anyone interested may join as well. By the end of the course, you’ll have built your own Resilience Plan specific to your site that you can start applying right away.
Last Call - Sign up and Reserve your Space
Feel free to reach out with questions to fires@mesaprogram.org. We look forward to learning with you!
Topics Include:
Land Management for Fire Preparedness & Mitigation
Emergency Response
Preparing Your Home, Farm Crew, Family & Livestock
Community Preparedness & Organizing for Recovery
Fires & Finances
Health & Food Safety
Understanding Fire Ecology
Katie Brimm and the Fires Resilience Team
In Topics Weather & Climate Change, News & Events
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Subject: Steam Weeders - any good ?
With the current issues about fire, and air permits and insurance, we are going to have to move away from flame weeding.
Wondering if anyone has experience with steam as a weed top kill agent ? a couple weekly cycles and that should eventually starve the roots. Anyone have a system for hire, or maybe consider shared ownership or tool library. $17K for weeding 6x a year is steep..
In Topics Pest & Disease Management
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Greg Nilsen | Wine Country Cuisine | Santa Rosa, CA commented
The day after our first rain of the season, 1.1` inches, I flamed my chard beds, both for weeds and aphids. I noticed several years ago that flaming kills flea beetles, diabrotica, slugs, aphids, ants, caterpillars, egg masses, mold and everything else. As an alternative to flaming during the fire season, I'm looking at the Nilfisk Magnum hot water pressure washer. It is stainless steel with a diesel fired water heater and gas engine pump and delivers up to 4 gallons per minute of 190 degree water at up to 4000 psi. Larger or multiple nozzles lower the pressure. This is hot enough to cook all the critters without the fire hazard or plant damage and would pulverize weeds at higher pressures. I could carry the washer in my tractor loader with a 275 gallon tote of water on my 3 point hitch. The washer is about $7,000 which is less than the cost of 2 years worth of chemicals plus the sprayer. Plus I can use it to clean my equipment.
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Subject: How can you build fire resilience on-farm? Online Course - Free for Farmers and Ranchers
Hi Folks,
Overwhelmed thinking about how to face a future of intensifying wildfires? Did October’s fires have you wondering if your farm, ranch and community know how to prepare, adapt or recover?
You’re not alone. With 65 years of combined experience working with farmers, MESA and CAFF/The Farmers Guild have worked hard to bring you an innovative, farmer-centered, holistic online course and network, “Farmers Build Fire Resilience, Feb 13-March 26 2020” to help farmers and ranchers face a future of fires.
By the end of the course, you’ll have built your own Resilience Plan that you can start applying right away. Free to farmers and ranchers in California.
Register Here and See Full Course Details Here
Feel free to reach out with questions to fires@mesaprogram.org. We look forward to learning with you!
Katie Brimm and the Fires Resilience Team
In Topics Livestock, Beginning Farmers & Ranchers, Weather & Climate Change, News & Events
In General FarmsReach community, North Coast Farmers Guild: Sebastopol, CA Women, Food and Agriculture Network
Subject: Agrointelli Robotti visiting CA ..please reach out if you want to attend a demo
We ran it and tested it in my Sunol field yesterday. I would describe it as an autonomous universal tool carrying platform.
Demos in CA, AZ and hopefully NV. Ping me if you would like to host a demo or attend a demo(this week in Bay Area and one in watsonville)..it’s going to Bakersfield from there and Yuma for a bit before coming back to CA. I am helping to co ordinate northern Cali demos.
For now, we have a rotovator and sprayer. Looking for a seeder to rent for the demo. Bed width 80inches. Can’t pull high draft like ripper or subsoiler, but works with most PTO implements and those using three point hitch.
I can’t seem to attach the video I took yesterday. Will try again.
cant upload. But this is a YouTube link: https://youtu.be/oQb9qngmCoY
In Topics Equipment
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Subject: Agritourism: 2 new resource guides, public comments & UC SAREP's info portal
Penny Leff, Agritourism Coordinator of UC SAREP, announced two new guides: Guest Lodging on Your California Farm or Ranch , and The Big Event: Hosting a Festival on your California Farm .
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In Topics Marketing & Sales, Business & Financial Planning, News & Events
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Subject: Call for small farm tools and tech workshop speakers!
The Community Alliance with Family Farmers (CAFF) and the Farmers Guild is hosting a Small Farm Tech Expo December 8-9 in Forestville, where we’ll showcase technology, equipment, and tools useful for small to mid-scale farms through workshops and demonstrations.
We’re looking for farmers and ranchers, technical advisors, and industry folks familiar with solar, irrigation management tools and tech, and/or whole orchard recycling who are interested in hosting or participating in a one hour workshop on December 9. For industry representatives, we’re looking for someone who can speak to specific considerations around choosing and managing a system or technology for the farm without explicitly promoting a specific product. Growers and ranchers, we want to hear about what tools and tech you've used as well!
You can submit a workshop proposal through this link
If you’re interested in being part of the expo or have any questions, please reach out to emily@caff.org.
In Topics Soil Fertility Management, Water & Irrigation, Equipment, News & Events
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