Vicky Boyd

Colorado State University looks at less water-thirsty forage crops to replace alfalfa in drought-stricken Western Slope. Could some of these forage crops like sainfoin and Kernza also be grown in California? azcentral.com/story/news/loc…

Keeping the soil covered with residues delivers most of what farmers need from "soil health", and you can see results in a single season. Building soil organic matter takes decades and often disappoints. Are we making this harder than it needs to be?

@RichOToole I love his stuff and will put it on repeat on iTunes (yes, I'm old school)

Probably Reckless Kelly

Warm, dry conditions have prompted California rice growers to begin working their fields. State & federal water projects have announced 100% allocations north of the Delta. I've heard estimates of slightly less CA rice acres than 2025 to slightly more. 2025 was 533,000 acres

@AgWriterArk True, but the early bird also gets the empty parking lot and empty trails with nobody who has spooked the wildlife before you. I'll put up with a few spider webs

Truth.

@AgWriterArk @GloriousAllianc Nice action shot

Squirzilla doing a ⁦@GloriousAllianc⁩ impression.

When your name is Ben Rice, it's ripe for marketing. Enter Ben's Original rice. The two are teaming on promotions along with No Kid Hungry. Ben Rice is a New York Yankee, but we won't hold that against him mlb.com/news/new-york-…

Science nerd that I am I got all excited at finding dog vomit slime mold, or as the Scandinavians call it, vomit of troll cats. It's neither a fungus nor an animal but belongs to kingdom Protista and is related to amoebas

Reports of the death of the California asparagus industry are greatly exaggerated. There still are a few hardy grower-packers producing 'gras, though the industry is a shadow of what it once was before NAFTA, higher minimum wages and ag-overtime rules

@kmcsween Don't you have those roller brushes mounted so they can scratch/brush themselves?

I have several retired cows that like to be combed. It’s tough spreading the love around without getting them jealous.

@RichOToole If you want real gumbo, you don't order it outside of Acadiana (southwest Louisiana or Cajun Country). and the best places are your so-called mom and pop family restaurants.

I’m not visiting the Hill Country.

@MikeBales Growing up in Colorado, one of my dad's colleagues who lived in Oklahoma would make road trips to Colorado and take back a car full of Coors since he couldn't buy it there.

How many people remember a time when Coors Beer could not be legally shipped east of the Mississippi?

Fertilizer prices have shot up 40% since closure of Straight of Hormuz. And the situation could grow worse in coming months as there isn't enough fertilizer in US warehouses to meet demand at planting apnews.com/article/iran-w…

This golden doodle (or cocker-doodle or whatever breed it is) sniffs out golden mussels. Mussel-sniffing dogs aid detection of, boat inspections for new invasive species in California fishbio.com/golden-mussel-…

@JoeDelBosque @DelBosqueFarms @ReclamationCGB Organic fresh-market or processing tomatoes?

On #NationalAgWeek we’re installing drip lines @DelBosqueFarms for more efficient use of our precious water resources and increasing production with less water. Planting organic tomatoes 🍅 next week. @ReclamationCGB #California

Biochar is not the be-all end-all that some make it out to be. But it does show promise under certain conditions daily.sevenfifty.com/the-promise-an…

@RichOToole My dad was a microbiologist, so we grew up hearing tales of liver flukes and other pathogens you get from eating raw fish. So we never ate raw fish, like that served in sushi.

Because I didn’t eat sushi as a kid? Sorry my parents worked two jobs. They didn’t have a lot of sushi money laying around.

@texasbug There is no law around that forces women to change their name when they marry. It's their choice, though I personally (as a woman) don't understand why they want to do something that creates a ton of paperwork to change their name. + it causes confusion in professional circles

Wouldn’t it be fun if the SAVE act causes women to stop changing their last names when they get married?

Cobram Estate Olive Oil, an Australian-owned company, just purchased California OIive Ranch to become California's largest olive-oil producer. It even passed antitrust review modbee.com/news/californi…

We're having a super bloom on the Virginia Corridor, the local walking/bike path