A Path Forward, Together Farmers, trade groups, state agencies, academics and Sustainable Conservation staff filled the sold-out, inaugural California Dairy Sustainability Summit in Sacramento last week to showcase how the Golden State’s dairy industry is moving the needle on sustainability. Critical issues like conserving water, protecting air quality and water, boosting renewable energy and reducing…
The votes have been tallied, and thanks to our esteemed panel of judges, we’re pleased to announce that this year’s California Leopold Conservation Award recipient is Lundberg Family Farms. Pioneering Excellence Begun in 1937, Lundberg Family Farms is a multi-generation organic rice farm and innovative rice products processor. The family’s proven commitment to sustainable farming…
In California’s dairy-rich San Joaquin Valley, Sustainable Conservation and our longtime industry partner California Ag Solutions (CAS) have worked together for years to make “too good to be true” farming outcomes the new norm.
Congrats to Sustainable Conservation’s Ladi Asgill and California Ag Solutions’ Mike Winemiller for receiving the Farmer Technical Support Innovator Award!
Learn about and download our study, Greenhouse Gas Mitigation Strategies for California Dairies, prepared to inform CARB’s short-lived climate pollutants strategy.
Check out a slideshow chronicling last week’s Sustainable Conservation & California Ag Solutions hosted CT Coach Tour!
Last week, we teamed up with California Ag Solutions to promote conservation tillage and its benefits at the 2015 World Ag Expo. The annual expo draws over 100,000 national and international visitors every year.
On August 5th, two-dozen dairy farmers joined Sustainable Conservation and California Ag Solutions for a daylong conservation tillage bus tour around the Central Valley.
Sustainable Conservation’s Modesto team recently assisted a Central Valley farmer in implementing a sustainable farming practice known as “conservation tillage.” This method of low-impact cultivation reduces the number of tractor passes needed to prepare fields for planting, dramatically cutting farming-related dust and diesel pollution.