Table 1. Biologically Integrated Farming Systems - BIOS & BIFS

First Year Project Leaders & Cooperators Title Counties Crop Number of Farmers Crop Enrolled Number of On-farm plots Number of Acres in Program Number of Acres Farmed by Project Farmers Key Practices Risk Reduction Targets Conservation Practices Research Needs
1993 CAFF (Karminder Aulakh & Marcia Gibbs), UC, UCCE, almond growers, Almond Board, RCD, NRCS, PCAs Biologically Integrated Orchard Systems (BIOS) for Almonds Merced, Stanislaus, Madera, San Joaquin,Colusa Almonds 69 69 2079 10,500 B.t. at bloom, cover crops, enhancement & release of beneficial species, monitoring & action thresholds Dormant & in-season OP insecticides, pre-emergence herbicides, nitrates Cover crops, insectary plants Diseases, Cover crop nitrogen dynamics
1994 CAFF (Karminder Aulakh), walnut growers, PCAs, UC Biologically Integrated Orchard Systems (BIOS) for walnuts Yolo, Solano Walnuts 20 20 510 900 Cover crops, mating disruption, enhancement & release of beneficial species, monitoring & action thresholds In-season OP insecticides, pre-emergence herbicides, nitrates Cover crops, insectary plants, tailwater ponds Cover crop nitrogen dynamics, codling moth, walnut blight, beneficial arthropods
1995 Lodi-Woodbridge Winegrape Commission (Cliff Ohmart), grape growers, PCAs, wineries, UCCE, UC Implementing a Biologically Integrated Farming System for Winegrapes in the Lodi-Woodbridge Winegrape District San Joaquin, Sacramento Wine Grapes 40 56 2023 20,000 Cover crops, enhancement of beneficial species, monitoring & action thresholds, disease risk models, IPM Nitrates, herbicides, insecticides Cover crops, cow pea border strips for trap cropping Eutypa & Fan Leaf monitoring & action thresholds for LH & mites, soil health
1995 UC Davis (Jeff Mitchell), UC Statewide IPM Project (Pete Goodell), cotton & vegetable growers, PCAs, UC, NRCS, UCCE West Side on-Farm Demonstration Project - Extending Biologically Integrated Farming Practices within the San Joaquin Valley's West Side Fresno Cotton, Vegetables, Wheat 12 17 1653 90,000 Organic soil amendments, soil & plant testing to optimize fertility, crop rotation, time of planting, monitoring & action thresholds, IPM, trap cropping Nitrates, herbicides, insecticides Cover crops, cow pea border strips for trap cropping Habitat for beneficial arthropods, strip/mulch till production, suppressive soils, water relation & cover crops

 

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