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Dixon/Solano RCD
Water Quality Coalition

Event Videos and Presentations 

  
2023 Events

Groundwater Workshop Presentations

When: Took place on January 24, 2023

1Solano Groundwater Sustainability Plan: An overview and update

– Chris Lee, Solano County Water Agency

 

2Sacramento Valley Watersheds: Regional collaborative approaches to maintaining and improving groundwater quality

– Vicki Kretsinger Grabert, Luhdorff & Scalmanini Consulting Engineers

 

3Nitrogen fate during agricultural managed aquifer recharge: Linking plant response, hydrologic, and geochemical processes

– Dr. Helen E. Dahlke, UC Davis

 

4Well decommissioning, wellhead protection and the “slow it-spread it-sink it-store it” concept with NRCS

– Carolyn M. Jones, NRCS

 

5Soil amendments for nitrogen and water management: cover crops, compost and biochar

– Amy King, Solano RCD

 

6Using thermal imaging drones for agricultural purposes

– Kevin Young-Lai, Solano RCD

2022 Events

Perennial Cover Crops in Orchards and Vineyards:

Water availability, seed selection, and soil health*

When: Took place on March 24, 2022 

Listen to speakers from Le Ballister’s Seed, UC Davis and Solano RCD for a discussion of perennial cover crops in perennial cropping systems, how to choose the mix that is right for you, and local resources for irrigation trouble-shooting, financial assistance programs, and water conservation incentives.

2021 Events

Building Healthy Soils and Creating Wildlife Habitat on Your Farm
Sponsor: Solano RCD


When: Took place on January 26, 2021

VFB SHARE Farm Demo #1 - Pheromone Disruption & Orchard Sanitation

The Valley Farm Bureau Specialty crop Hub and Rural Education (SHARE) program sponsored a farm demonstration event on Puffer Technology for pheromone uses to disrupt mating of insects in figs.

When: Took place on April 29, 2021

Managing Goatgrass on Annual Rangeland: A presentation by Scott Oneto of UC Cooperative Extension

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Calflora:

An online program to map weeds, presented by Cynthia Powell

(Starts at 24:00)

Video of the 2021 All-Member's Meeting

Cover Cropping in Orchards: N Management,

Water Dynamics, and Biosolarization

CAFF and the Sacramento Valley Technical Assistance Hub welcome you to a free discussion on cover crop management in orchard systems. North Sac Valley almond and walnut grower Rory Crowley and UC Cooperative Specialist Jeff Mitchell will be speaking on cover crop management in relation to nitrogen impacts on water balance, in addition to biosolarization for nematode suppression. Practical management considerations and research trial findings will also be discussed. CAFF’s Sacramento Valley TA Hub is sponsored by the California Farm Demonstration Network.

 

When: Took place on July 13th, 2021

2020 Events

Cattle, Carbon & Compost
A CDFA Healthy Soils Program workshop 

Sponsor: Yolo RCD


 

Video of the All-Member's Meeting from November 8, 2021.

It is approximately one hour. Questions from the meeting

Video of the 2020 All-Member's Meeting

Note:  This a recorded video of the All-Members Meeting from November 5, 2020,  The first 6 minutes has some feedback noise but that is resolved for the remainder of the approximately 50 minute video. 

2018 and 2019 Events
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