The New Foothill Rancher

• Changes Ahead
• Livestock and Ag Pass Update
• Spring 2024 Workshop Schedule
• Virtual Leading Opportunities!

• A Quick Note from Dan
• Using Fire to Fight Rangeland Weeds
• Sierra Foothill Rancher's Fire Academy
• Placer Prescribed Burn Association Community Resources Survey

• Raising Livestock on Rangeland is not an Indoor Sport!
• No Such Thing as an Average Year
• Nevada-Placer-Yuba Disaster Livestock Pass Update
• Is YOUR Ranch Ready for Wildfire Season?!
• Parasite Control in Organic Livestock Production Survey
• Tentative 2023 Workshop Schedule 

• Interested in Learning about using Prescribed Fire for Rangeland Improvement?
• After the Fire: Resources for Landowners and Land Managers Impacted by the Mosquito Fire
• Workshop Schedule SAVE THE DATE!

• Its that Time of Year Again - Are you Ready for Wildfire?
• Livestock Guardian Dog Updates
• Blue Oak Mortality Update
• Beale Air Force Base Pasture Leases Out to Bid
• Foothill Agricultural Water Use Survey
• Workshop Schedule
• How do you prefer to get information from your local UC COOPERATIVE EXTENSION LIVESTOCK and NATURAL RESOURCES Program?

• Drought Update - A Third Dry Year
• Cattle & sheep Grazing School set - Register HERE
• Sheep and Shepherds in the 21st Century – PhotoVoice Survey
• 2022 Livestock Access Pass Update
• Livestock Guardian Dog Updates
• Foothill Agricultural Water Use Survey
• Can’t Make the Webinar? Check out these Virtual Learning Opportunities!

• Rancher's Wildfire Field Day - February 18, 2022
• New Fact Sheet: Wolves and Compensation Update
• Using Livestock Guardian Dog with Cattle
• Start Planning Now for your Targeted Grazing Project
• Prescribed Fire Workshops
• Winter/Spring Workshops Schedule
• Livestock Info Survey: http://ucanr.edu/livestockinfosurvey

• Placer-Nevada-Yuba Disaster Livestock Access Pass Sign-Up Extended - https://ucanr.edu/sites/Livestock/files/355150.pdf
• Beginning Farming Academy set for September - http://ucanr.edu/beginfarming21

• Placer and Nevada UCCE Offices Reopening!
• More than Simply Surviving
• Help us Pilot-Test a New Drought Decision Support Tool
• Managing Irrigated Pasture during Drought
• Getting our Ranches Ready for Fire Season
• Disaster Livestock Access Pass Program in the Works fo the Foothills
• Upcoming Workshops

Livestock Info Survey: http://ucanr.edu/livestockinfosurvey

Managing Risk in Your Sheep Operation - Production Workshop

Wednesday, June 23, 2021 | 10-2p

Foster's Bighorn Restaurant - Rio Vista, CA

Register: https://ucanr.edu/survey/survey.cfm?surveynumber=34947

Contact: Morgan Doran mpdoran@ucanr.edu or 530-666-8738

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Thursday, June 24, 2021 | 9 - 1p

Wool Growers Restaurant - Bakersfiled, CA

Register: https://ucanr.edu/survey/survey.cfm?surveynumber=33921

Contact: Julie Finzel jafinzel@anr.edu or 661-868-6219

• Now is the Time to Consider Irrigated Pasture Renovations
• Turns Out - We are in a Drought!
• Shepherding Fire: Lessons from our Prescribed Fire on Working Landscapes Workshop
• A Few Tips for Hiring a Targeted Grazing Contractor
• CDFA Offers Free RFID Cattle Ear Tags

March 12-15, 2021

• Are We in for Another Drought?!
• Getting the Most out of Fall Feed
• When Should Lambs be Vaccinated?
• A Dry Fall and a Heavy Acorn Crop: Keep an Eye out for Acorn Toxicity
• What to do When an Animal Dies? Composting Could be the Answer
• New Research - Opportunities for Producer Participation

• A Rancher's Fire Safe Council for the Foothills
• More on Blue Oaks
• Wildfire Ash on Forage and in Stock Water
• Round 2: More Public Safety Power Shut-offs
• Livestock Protection Tools - Operation Size Matters
• Getting Started in Targeted Grazing - 2020 Webinar Series
• Autumn 2020 Beef Production Webinar Series
• The Sheep Stuff Ewe Should know Podcast - Not Just For Sheepherders!

Introduction to Targeted Grazing (Tuesday, October 6, 2020 - 6-7:30 pm):

UCCE Live Stock and Natural Resources Advisor Dan Macon will provide an overview of targeted grazing, including grazing management picking the right grazer for the job, livestock management, and customer relations. Cost $10 Click here to register. 

The Business of Targeted Grazing (Tuesday, October 21, 2020 - 6-7:30 pm):

Join Dan Macon and a panel of targeted grazing contractors to learn about the ins and outs of building a targeted grazing business. Cost $10 Click here to register. 

• COVID-19 and UC Cooperative Extension
• Direct Marketing - Challenges & Opportunities
• Does Direct Marketing Add Value to Livestock?
• USDA Announces Online Portal for CFAP Applications
• USDA Declares Drought Disaster
• Sierra Harvest Offering 2020 Ag Skills Courses
• Public Safety Power Shutoff Needs Assessment
• Webinar and Podcast Schedule

USDA Farm Service Agency is now accepting producer applications for CFAP assistance payments from livestock producers. https://www.farmers.gov/cfap

• CFAP for Livestock Producers: https://www.farmers.gov/sites/default/files/documents/FSA_CFAP_ForLivestock_Fact%20Sheet-2020-5-26-20.pdf
• CFAP for Wool Producers: https://www.farmers.gov/sites/default/files/documents/FSA_CFAP_Wool_Fact%20Sheet-2020-5-26-20.pdf

• Ranching During a Pandemic
• Coronaviruses in human and animal health
• To Fertilize or Not to Fertilize? That is the Question!
• Moderate Drought Persists in Northern California
• CA Dept of Fish and Wildlife Launches Human-Wildlife Conflict Website
• Virtual Meetings!
• Livestock and Natural Resources Program Survey - http://ucanr.edu/livestockingosurvey 

Saturday, March 7, 2020 | 8 am - 12 pm

• Rainfall Forage Growth: A Look Back and a Look Ahead
• Should I Still Vaccinate for Brucellosis?
• But She's My Favorite Cow!
• Mix 'em Up: Avoiding Habituation with Livestock Protection Tools
• Disaster Preparation for Your Ranch

• Costs vs. Benefits: The Economics of Using Livestock Guardian Dogs
• Smutgrass: Growing Problem on Irrigated Pasture
• Blue Oak Mortality on Foothill Rangelands
• Preparing your Cow Herd for Breeding
• Is Your Farm or Ranch a Business?
• Upcoming workshop: "So you want to start a farm or ranch..."

• Managing Livestock Nutrition on Dry Forage
• Fire Season is Upon Us
• Coccidiosis in Sheep and Goats
• Sierra Harvest Land Match Program
• Observations of Blue Oak Needed
• USDA Will Require RFID Brucellosis Tags
• Complete the Ranch Management Survey for the chance to win a YETI cooler!
• Summer Workshops Calendar

The California Department of Fish and Wildlife is looking to lease approximately 1800 acres in Yuba County for cattle grazing.

Please follow up directly with CDFW if you have questions!

• Principles of Targeted Grazing and Estimating Grazing Periods
• Technology (fencing, portable water systems, grazing tracking and mapping, predator protection, etc.)
• Picking the Right Animal for the Job
• Business Management (including enterprise analysis, logistics and planning, bidding for contracts, public relations, managing cash flow, etc.)
• Grazer/Client Panel

• Thinking about Hiring a Targeted Grazing Contractor?
• Marketing Your Calves
• Preventing Pinkeye
• Integrated Predator Management
• Nevada Irrigation District Proposes Irrigation Water Rate Increase
• Speaking of Irrigation Season...
• UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine Kicks Off Leptospirosis Study
• Ranching in a Drying Climate
• Virulent Newcastle Disease Update
• Spring Workshop Calendar

Register today for two UCCE rancher-focused workshops in March 2019!

Wednesday, March 20 - 2019 Cattlemen's Symposium: Join UC Davis and UCCE experts in cattle marketing, beef cattle genetics, cattle health, and pasture weed management! This half-day symposium will be held at Correia Livestock in Lincoln. $15/person - includes lunch. Co-sponsored by the Tahoe Cattleman's Association. Register at http://ucanr.edu/2019cattlesymposium. 

Friday, March 29 - Livestock Protection Tools Field Day (Penn Valley): Are you curious about nonlethal livestock protection tools but concerned about cost and effectiveness?Join UCCE for this half-day, hands-on field day exploring a variety of livestock protection  tools! Keynote speaker Cat Urbigkit is a Wyoming cattle and sheep producer who has used livestock guardian dogs and other tools to protect livestock from wolves and other predators. Please note: thsi field day is focused on the needs of commercial ranchers. We will be hosting a similar workshop for agency staff, nonprofit organization and non-commercial livestock owners later in Spring 2019. No charge! Register at http://ucanr.edu/livestockprotectiontoolsnevadaco. 

See the attached flyers for more information, or contact Dan Macon, Livestock and Natural Resources Advisor at dmacon@ucanr.edu. 

• Reporting on Drought
• California Animal Health and Food Safety Lab Updates
• Winter/Spring Workshops Calendar

• New Waste Discharge Requirements for Confined Bovine Feeding Operations
• New Research to Evaluate Early Weaning as Drought Strategy
• New Research Evaluates Livestock Guardian Dog Breeds
• Placer-Nevada-Sutter-Yuba Livestock and Natural Resource Needs Assessment
• Workshop and Events Calendar
• Grazing Technology Field Day

Upcoming Workshops

California Sheep and Goat Grazing School

Establishing Irrigated Pasture Field Workshop

So You Want to Start a Farm or Ranch…

Grazing Technology Field Day

• A Gray Wolf Visits Nevada County
• Is Your Ranch Ready for Fire Season?
• More than Cows or Sheep: Ecosystem Services from Ranchlands
• Virulent Newcastle Disease Reported in Southern California Chickens
• Workshop and Events Calendar
• Sierra Foothill Wool Pool
• Sheep & Goat Grazing School

Virulent Newcastle Disease Reported in Southern California Chickens

The California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA) has reported a case of Virulent Newcastle Disease (VND) in a small flock of backyard exhibition chickens in Los Angeles County. The case was detected at the UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine’s California Animal Health and Food Safety (CAHFS) Laboratory. CDFA has quarantined potentially exposed birds.

• Another Strange Year
• New Forage Varieties
• New Publication Outlines Livestock Protection Tools
• Wool Testing
• Workshop Calendar

• What's Your Drought Plan?
• New Antibiotic Requirements for Livestock Producers - Are You Ready?
• Workshops for Sheep Producers
• Farm and Ranch Business Planning Short Course
• Placer-Nevada-South Sutter-North Sacramento Subwatershed Group Annual Meeting

• After the Fire - Tips for Rangeland Managers
• Matching Your Cows to the Environment
• Controlling Internal Parasites in Sheep and Goats
• The Dirty Dozen Pasture and Rangeland Weeds
• New Research/Demonstration: the Livestock Guardian Dog Project
• Will Your Ranch Outlast You? Planning for Continuity
• Introduction to Farm Business Workshop

Beef Quality Assurance Workshop

Saturday, September 23, 2017

8:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.

Sierra Foothill Research and Extension Center

8279 Scott Forbes Road, Browns Valley, CA 95918

New Livestock & Natural Resources Advisor

Beef Quality Assurance Workshop

Coping with hot weather - keeping animals and people safe

Ranching in the Sierra Foothills Blog

Rice Strawlage Field Tours

It has been demonstrated that baling rice straw immediately after harvest (called rice strawlage) greatly increases its nutritional value for livestock. Baling at 30 to 40 percent moisture can have the challenge of mold management. With the help of producers, the University of California has been researching rice strawlage during the last two years. Two tours will offer livestock and rice producers a chance to determine if rice strawlage would work in their operations.

Monday, December 15, 2014, 12:00pm – 3:30pm

Tour and hosted lunch at the Parker Ranch in Williams and Sand Creek Ranch in Arbuckle

Wednesday, December 17, 2014, 9:00am – 11:00am

Tour of the research heifers on rice strawlage at the Sierra Foothill Research and Extension Center at 8279 Scott Forbes Road in Browns Valley

Rice Straw - A New Method to Get Through a Drought

Tuesday, July 29, 2014

9am - Noon

Veterans Memorial Hall

525 West Sycamore Street, Willows, CA

Please take a look at the attached letter and flyer for more information on how to participate in our May 8th, Be a Scientist for a Day!

Mitigating Drought Optimizing Pasture and Supplemental Fee and Managing Risk

Workshop: January 29, 2014

Browns Valley ~ 9:00 am

To Register to attend or register for the webcast go to http://ucanr.edu/sites/sfrec/. 

January 11, 2014

7:30am - 5:00pm

Gladys Valley Hall

UC Davis, Health Sciences Campus

UC Sierra Foothill Research and Extension Center Field Workshop!

• Milestone (Aminopyralid) Applied Preemergence can Control Medusahead
• 2011/2012 Northern California Winter Pasture Experience Varies
• Important Facts to know about  the Herbicide: Glyphosate

The UC Sierra Foothill Research & Extension Center will be hosting the Beef and Range Field Day on Friday, May 18, 2012 from 9:15 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.  Registration will be from 8:30 - 9:15 a.m.  For the agenda of events, directions to the extension center and registration fees (which includes morning refreshments & lunch) please see the attached document.

In this edition:

- Pasture Aeration Trial
- 2010/11 Northern California Winter Pasture Experience
- Effects of Heavy Grazing on Tarweed and Vinegarweed
- A Method to Implement Crossbreeding

Winter Animal Health Meetings, February 24th, 2012

Maxwell Inn - Maxwell, CA  10 a.m. - 3 p.m.

Shasta Livestock Auction Yard, Cottonwood, CA  5 p.m. - 9 p.m. 

• Update on Using a Rotary Wiper
• Slender Aster Control
• Controlling Wire Grass in Irrigated Pastures
• Effects on Heavy Grazing on Tarweed and Vinegarweed