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Workgroup Information Precision Agriculture |
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| $2,125 | |
| Summary | Site specific farming and related geospatial technologies -- workgroup mainly to enhance interdisciplinary and public-private communication and public-private. Annual meeting with individuals reporting is planned for June 2007. |
| Website: | http://groups.ucanr.org/precag/ |
| Annual Reports: |
2007 2006 2005 2004 |
| Workgroup Chair Information | |
| Name | Stuart Pettygrove (Chair) |
| Phone | (530) 752-2533 |
| gspettygrove@ucdavis.edu | |
| Unit: | Land, Air & Water Resources |
| Location: |
LAWR/Hoagland One Shields Avenue Davis, 95616 |
| Responsible for Workgroup Administration and Budget | |
| Name | Corrine Gould |
| cgould@ucdavis.edu | |
| Phone | 530-752-1719 |
| Membership List | ||
| AES Scientist | ||
| Giles, Durham | Biological & Agricultural Engineering | |
| Professor | Engineering for pest control and plant protection; development of target sensing and sprayer control systems; handling and distribution of biological pest control agents; automation of pest control operations. | |
| Hills, David | Biological & Agricultural Engineering | |
| Professor emeritus | Pressurized irrigation system design and hardware development system performance in trickle and sprinkle irrigation; chemigation. | |
| Plant, Richard | Department of Plant Sciences | |
| AES Professor Quantitative Analyst | Application of systems analysis to crop and resource management; including statistics, geographic information systems, and mathematical modeling. | |
| Rosa, Uriel | Biological & Agricultural Engineering | |
| Assistant Professor | Engineering integration of electro-mechanical systems, sensing and control techniques for use in bio-production systems. | |
| Slaughter, David | Biological & Agricultural Engineering | |
| Professor | Instrumentation and postharvest engineering for biological materials; packaging, handling, storage and transportation of agricultural commodities; nondestructive measurement of quality and composition of biological materials; robotics, control and vision systems | |
| (info only) Southard, Randal | ||
| Professor Soil Genesis Morphologist-AES Division of Environmental Sciences | Professor & Soil Genesis & Morphologist-AES, Associate Dean, Division of Environmental Sciences | |
| Upadhyaya, Shrinivasa | Biological & Agricultural Engineering | |
| Professor | Tillage and traction, soil dynamics, soil crusting and compactional; site-specific crop management, soil and yield sensors, GIS, precision planting of propagules; and mathematical modeling of biological problems. | |
| Ustin, Susan | Hydrology Program | |
| AES Professor of Resource Science | Remote sensing of environmental properties and landscape analysis utilizing optical, microwave, and/or thermal scanners, radiation interactions in plant canopies and application to ecological problems | |
| (info only) van Kessel, Chris | Department of Plant Sciences | |
| Professor Chair Department of Plant Sciences | Agronomy, soil fertility, nutrient cycling, cropping systems, international agriculture. | |
| CE Advisor | ||
| (info only) Baameur, Aziz | Santa Clara County | |
| Farm Advisor | Small Farms, cultivar evaluation, nutrient management, irrigation, specialty crops, cucurbits, oriental vegetables | |
| Brittan, Kent | Yolo County | |
| Yolo County Director & Farm Advisor for Field Crops | Small grains, corn and biofuel crops | |
| Cahn, Michael | Monterey County | |
| Farm Advisor | Irrigation & Water Resources | |
| (info only) Doran, Morgan | Solano County | |
| Advisor for Livestock and Natural Resources | Livestock, beef cattle, sheep, nutrition, range & natural resources | |
| Faber, Ben | Ventura County | |
| Farm Advisor | Soils and water, avocados and minor subtropicals | |
| (info only) Frate, Carol | Tulare County | |
| Farm Advisor | Alfalfa, dry beans, sugarbeets, corn, plant pathology | |
| Freeman, Mark | Fresno County | |
| Farm Advisor | Nut crops--almond, walnut, pistachio, pecan; citrus--orange, lemon, mandarin; olive | |
| (info only) Fulton, Allan | Tehama County | |
| Irrigation and Water Resources Advisor | ||
| Garcia, Sergio | San Benito County | |
| Farm Advisor, Emeritus - Livestock Range and Natural Resources | ||
| (info only) Greer, Christopher | Sutter-Yuba Counties | |
| Farm Advisor - Rice Farming Systems | Rice - Pest management, cultural practices, environmental interactions | |
| (info only) Jensen, Wayne | Santa Barbara County | |
| Emeritus County Director | Livestock, natural resources, public issue education | |
| Marcum, Daniel | Shasta-Lassen Office | |
| Farm Advisor | Irrigation, plant nutrition, salinity, entomology, sustainable agriculture, agronomy, vegetable crops, engineering, plant pathology, integrated pest management, systems management, economics, weed control, nematology, strawberry nursery production, garlic, wild rice, alfalfa, timothy, sugarbeet, pasture, range, biodiversity, peppermint, viticulture | |
| (info only) Marsh, Brian | Kern County | |
| Farm Advisor / Center Director | Agronomy, cotton, small grains, corn and silage | |
| Miyao, Gene | Yolo County | |
| Farm Advisor, Vegetable Crops | Processing tomato production. | |
| Munier, Douglas | Glenn County | |
| Farm Advisor | Agronomy-cotton, corn, wheat, clover seed, safflower, sunflower, and dry beans | |
| Munk, Daniel | Fresno County | |
| Farm Advisor | Cotton Production Systems, Irrigation and Drainage, Soil Quality and Tillage | |
| (info only) Mutters, Randall | Butte County | |
| Farm Advisor | Rice, winter cereals, turf | |
| Niederholzer, Franz | Sutter-Yuba Counties | |
| Farm Advisor Orchard Systems | Prunes, almonds, pears, apple, cherry, olive, plum, citrus, and pomegranate | |
| Schmierer, Jerry | Colusa County | |
| Agronomy Farm Advisor | Plant science, alfalfa, wheat,dry beans, corn, barley, and oil seed crops with speciality in precision agriculture and weed management. | |
| Stoddard, Scott | Merced County | |
| Farm Advisor Vegetable Crops and Limited Resource Farms | Soil fertility and conservation, tomatoes, peppers, sweetpotatoes, weed management | |
| (info only) Wroble, Jonathan | Fresno County | |
| Cotton, Soils and Water Assistant | ||
| CE Specialist | ||
| (info only) Hanson, Blaine | Land, Air & Water Resources | |
| CE Irrigation and Drainage Specialist | Drainage; wells and pumps; micro-irrigation, sprinkler irrigation; furrow irrigation, border and basin irrigation, irrigation scheduling; salinity; soil moisture sensors | |
| (info only) Kaffka, Stephen | Department of Plant Sciences | |
| Assistant CE Agronomist VI & Lecturer WOS | Works on sugar beets and safflower, particularly ways to improve the efficiency and reduce the environmental impact of producting these crops. Also works on water quality and agricultural drainage and salinity management. | |
| Lampinen, Bruce | Department of Plant Sciences | |
| Integrated Orchard Management Walnut and Almond Specialist | Integrated Orchard Management with an emphasis on walnuts and almonds | |
| Lanini, W | Weed Science Program | |
| CE Weed Ecologist | Ecology, weed crop competition, weed biology and low-input agriculture | |
| McGiffen, Milton | Botany & Plant Sciences | |
| CE Specialist and Plant Physiologist | Vegetable Crops, Invasive Species, Weed Science, Sustainable Agriculture, and Alternatives to Methyl Bromide | |
| O'Geen, Anthony | Soils & Biogeochemistry Program | |
| Cooperative Extension Soil Resource Specialist | Soil-landscape relationships, hydropedology, application of digital soil databases, soil survey; pedologic and hydrologic processes in deep regolith; macrofauna and mesofauna in soils. | |
| Pettygrove, Stuart | Land, Air & Water Resources | |
| CE Soils Specialist | Soil fertility; land application of wastes and wastewater; dairy manure; winegrape nutrition; precision agriculture. | |
| Schwankl, Lawrence | Kearney Agricultural Center | |
| CE Irrigation Specialist | Irrigation engineering, design, operation and management of irrigation systems, soil moisture monitoring, low-volume irrigation | |
| Other ANR | ||
| Nosera, Jim | Mendocino County | |
| Agricultural Technologist | Field assistant, public service | |
| Whiting, Michael | UC Davis Dept of LAWR | |
| Researcher | Soils, remote sensing, GIS | |
| User, Unverified | ||
| Zhang, Minghua | Land, Air & Water Resources | |
| Non-UC | ||
| Ackerman, Lon | CSU Chico | |
| Coates, Bob | UC Davis Dept of Bio & Ag Engineering | |
| Graduate student | Irrigation controllers | |
| User, Unverified | ||
| (info only) Groves, Russell | USDA-ARS | |
| Researcher | ||
| Horney, Marc | ||
| Horney, Randy | ||
| Precision ag | ||
| Larkin, Michael | Precision Agri-Lab | |
| crop monitoring, laboratory analysis, precision ag | ||
| Neilson, Robert | College of Sequoia | |
| Instructor | Precision ag | |
| Parks, Reg | ||
| Ag systems, grapes | ||
| Peterson, Matt | In Time, Inc. | |
| Remote sensing | ||
| Reinert, Bill | ||
| consultant | Precision ag | |
| Roberts, Bruce | ||
| Rueger, Patty | Paramount Farms | |
| GIS, crop recordkeeping systems | ||
| Sargent, Warren | Ag Attack | |
| precision ag, crop management | ||
| (info only) Seal, Michael | In Time, Inc. | |
| Remote sensing | ||
| (info only) Shrestha, Anil | Integrated Pest Management | |
| IPM Weed Ecologist | Development and implementation of IPM strategies and tactics for vegetation management. Primary crops corn, cotton, tree fruit, grape, tomato. | |
| (info only) Stone, Tim | Britz, Inc. | |
| Variable rate application, fertilizer technology, crop management | ||
| Strohmann, Rollin | Cal Poly, SLO | |
| Professor | Precision ag, information technology | |
| Wood, Robin | Scan Control, Inc. | |
| GIS, crop management software | ||
| Yen, Mathew | CSU Fresno | |
| Instructor | Precision Ag | |
| Zarco, Pablo | Institute for Sustainable Agriculture, Cordoba, Spain | |
| Researcher | Remote sensing | |
| (info only) Zelinski, Lowell | Precision Ag Consulting | |
| Precision ag, cotton | ||
| Other UC | ||
| Delwiche, Michael | Biological & Agricultural Engineering | |
| Professor | Electronic instrumentation and sensor development in biological systems; biosensors; postharvest engineering; digital signal and image processing; computer control; biological control of insect pests. | |
| (info only) Downey, Dan | Biological & Agricultural Engineering | |
| Assistant Research Engineer | Instrumentation for fluid handling systems, micro-spray applications for weed control, application of GPS tools for agricultural production systems, transport and sampling of aerosols and sprays, use of laser diffraction devices to characterize droplet size distributions, characterization of aerosols and sprays for agricultural and industrial products. | |
| Jahn, Bernie | UC Davis Dept of Bio & Ag Engineering | |
| Grad student | sensors, spatial statistics | |
| Lynn-Patterson, Kris | Kearney Agricultural Center | |
| GIS Academic Coordinator | ||
| Membership Totals | ||
| Number of Members | 68 | |
| ANR Members | 46 | |
| Non-ANR | 22 | |
| Info Only | 20 | |
