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Details about ANR Statewide Conference in April
Join the #Food2025 conversation on Twitter
Everyone is welcome to join the Twitter conversation on issues that will be discussed at the April 9 Global Food Systems Forum. The topic for next week's Twitter discussion (March 24-30) is environmental pressures facing our global food systems and potential solutions. To participate in the Twitter discussion, use (hashtag)#Food2025.
If you haven’t used Twitter but would like to join the conversation, Karl Krist has posted a 3-minute video to bring you up to speed. Watch it on our YouTube channel – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFNaKhiHkRU
Seats remain for preconference tours
Seats are rapidly filling for our preconference tours, but a few are still available on Tour #1 of Coachella Valley and Tour #3 of San Diego County. In addition, a couple of seats have opened up on Tour #2 of urban San Bernardino and Orange counties.
All three tours are described at http://ucanr.edu/sites/statewideconference2013/Program/Tours_-_April_8. If you’ve already registered for the conference and would like to add a Monday tour, email your request for a tour to anrprogramsupport@ucanr.edu.
Final call for posters
If you would like to display a poster for the conference and haven’t yet submitted a request, please go to https://ucanr.edu/survey/survey.cfm?surveynumber=9900 and submit your request by midnight on Friday, March 22.
Nearly 500 people have registered for the ANR Statewide Conference April 9-11. Registration will be open until the conference begins, but those who register after March 25 will be accepted as space permits.
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Farmers tell their stories with social media
Frustration at being the targets of technologically savvy environmental and animal rights groups has inspired farmers to get involved with social media communications outlets like Facebook and Twitter, according to an Associated Press article by Julianna Barbassa.
"There is so much negative publicity out there, and no one was getting our message out," Denair dairy farmer Ray Prock Jr. told Barbassa. Prock writes blog posts and tweets regularly on everything from emergency drills for handling manure spills to lactose intolerance. On his blog, Prock said he took up the pen because he is tired of having someone else tell his story.
Besides giving them a voice, farmers are finding that social media can help them build community and share valuable information. One source of information is the Facebook and Twitter pages developed by UC viticulture specialist Matt Fidelibus and UC Cooperative Extension viticulture advisor Steve Vasquez. Last week, for example, Fidelibus' Twitter followers learned that swarms of small flying insects in a Parlier vineyard resembled leaf hoppers but turned out to be false chinch bugs.The AP article said the duo started using social media as a way to get important information to grape growers quickly — if the risk of powdery mildew on grapevines was high for a particular region, farmers could react in time, for example. In fact, Fidelibus tweeted on July 1, "Parlier Grape Powdery Mildew RAI threshold on 07/01/10 is 70. For additional SJV locations visit http://ow.ly/2603J."
A tool like Facebook, Barbassa wrote, also allows farmers to share photos or video. They can post an image of something problematic and get advice from experts like Fidelibus or each other immediately.
A photo gallery on the San Joaquin Valley Viticulture Facebook page.
