Growing Pistachios On Saline Soils
Thursday Jan 21st, 2021 Daniele Zaccaria is a UCANR Cooperative Extension Specialist, Land Air, and Water Department at UC Davis.
“It really matters that in the last 15 to 20 years, pistachio acreage expanded a lot on the marginal soils. And those are either salt-effective soils or saline sodic ground. And it’s estimated that currently 20 to 25% of the total pistachio acreage is grown on salt-effected soil,” explained Zaccaria.
There s more room for expansion in those marginal soil. It s also because there are just a few other crops that can grow on these difficult soils.
Zaccaria said these marginal soils also come with water limitations. “It s important to know that all these marginal areas are also areas where there are unreliable or restricted or impaired water resources,” he said. “On Department of Water Resources maps, you can see with all the dots in red, all the areas that somehow had a very sharp groundwater
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California Organic Farmers Keep Up with Demand
Friday Jan 1st, 2021
News Reporter With California Ag Today, I’m Tim Hammerich.
Demand for organic produce continues to rise. How are growers scaling their production system to meet this demand while still maintaining certified organic standards?
Dr. Joji Muramoto is a UC Cooperative Extension Specialist who works with organic producers.
Muramoto… “Yeah, soil-borne disease management is a huge challenge for organic growers. When I came to Santa Cruz in 1996, the only way to avoid the major soil pathogen, Verticillium wilt caused by Verticillium dahliae is to have a long rotations. Like once you plant the strawberries, you leave the land at least 3-4 years and then come back to strawberries.”