Soils of the Southern Sacramento Valley Field Tour

Thursday October 12, 2017 8 a.m.-12.15 p.m.

Rominger Brothers' and Triad Farms

3.0 CCA Credits Pending

Rominger Brothers Ranch 26981 Cty Rd. 29, Winters, CA 95694

7:45-8:00 a.m.           Registration, Coffee, Donuts

8:00 a.m.                    Introduction and Plans for the day

8:10 a.m.                    Pedology of Yolo County

                                    Toby O'Geen, Soil Resource Specialist in Cooperative Extension

8:30 a.m.                    Pit 1: Corning gravelly loam pit description and texture-by-feel demonstration

9:30 a.m.                    Pit 2: Capay clay pit description and calculating soil water holding capacity

Konrad Mathesius, UCCE Agronomy Advisor, Sacramento, Solano and Yolo counties

10:30 a.m.                  Caravan to Pit 3,

                                    Triad Farms, 9075 Old Davis Rd. 95620

11:15 a.m.                  Pit 3: Yolo loam pit description and discussion of some of the limitations/

mitigations associated with other common soil series in the valley

                                    Konrad Mathesius, UCCE Agronomy Advisor, Sacramento, Solano and Yolo

counties

12:15 p.m.                  Adjourn