$1.15 M to Aid CA Nutrient and Irrigation Management

To the tune of $1.15 million dollars, this week the California Department of Food and Agriculture’s Fertlizer Research and Education Program announced awards going out to five new projects that aim to improve nutrient and irrigation management practices.

While you can find out more about each on our website, AgInfo.NET, here’s a quick overview:

1 – A central valley-based project will develop practical and cost-effective remote sensing approaches to mapping leaf tissue nutrient status that will help almond growers.

2 – A project that’ll add to a decision support tool in the citrus world, combining field data and data-driven modeling.

3 – A project that will develop crop nitrogen removal coefficient values for 10 major annual and perennial commodities In the Imperial and Coachella valleys.

4 – An outreach project that focuses on educating primarily Spanish-speaking, socially disadvantaged organic growers about soil fertility, plant nutrition and irrigation management techniques.

5 – The creation of a website that summarizes California-based research on nutrient availability in organic annual cropping systems.

Since 1991, the Program has awarded $31 million to 276 research, outreach and demonstration projects,