Livestock & Range News

Reminder - Tehama County Cattlemen’s Association fire recovery and regular meeting

Wednesday September 25^th, 2024

Tehama District Fairgrounds, Tehama Room

Sponsored by Cornerstone Community Bank

6:30 PM starting time with dinner by Cornerstone Community Bank

Call to order

            Dave Stroing, Tehama County Cattlemen’s Association President

Content:

Reminder that Wednesday is the TCCA post-fire and regular agenda meeting.  Note we have one added speaker.  Tehama County Assessor Burley Phillips will brief the group on opportunities to recalculate your tax assessment post fire.  Topics include:

1. What forage growth response to expect post-fire

Josh Davy, Tehama County Cooperative Extension

2) ASSISTANCE: Fence and feed programs to help with fire recovery

Ruth Ford, Tehama County Farm Service Agency

3) ASSISTANCE: Hazardous Material and Burn Debris Cleanup

Ginger Shaffer, Tehama County Environmental Health

4)  Recalculating your tax assessment value post-fire

 Burley Phillips, Tehama County Assessor

Dinner, by Cornerstone Community Bank

Please RSVP for dinner to Josh Davy by phone 530-527-3101, or email jdavy@ucdavis.edu

Here is some information for those affected by fire.  Sorry for you losses!

Attached is a quick fact sheet on what to expect on rangeland after fire.  This fire is likely to be a combination of grassland and brush burns, even within the same ranch.  Note, the results of each burn type will be different.  Grassland fires this late likely will have minimal benefit of action.  Brush burns can be helped.  More detail is in the attachment.

Thanks to TCCA recording the training for the Ag Pass in 2021, we are able to grant passes quickly.  These passes are for commercial livestock producers only.  We can have a pass completed within a day usually.  If you need updates to your current pass, give us a call and we can make those changes with the Ag Commissioner.

There are many FSA program that can possibly help replace internal fences, forage lost, and livestock lost.  The link below describes several programs, but my advise is to contact the FSA office directly to learn more about potential programs for you.  The most important thing is that some of these programs require notification to FSA within 30 days of the disaster.  This notification is as simple as making a phone call and letting them know you are part of the disaster.  The Tehama County FSA number is 530-527-2667 ext 2.

https://www.fsa.usda.gov/programs-and-services/disaster-assistance-program/index

If you would like more information call Josh Davy at 530-527-3101.

*Joint Shasta/Tehama Cattlemen's informational meeting*

Cottonwood Community Center

20595 Gas Point Rd, Cottonwood, CA 96022

Thursday, March 28, 2024

5:30pm - 7:15pm

Do you divert more than 10… or more than 100 acre feet of water?

Senate Bill 88 requires that all water right holders who have previously diverted or intend to divert more than 10 acre-feet per year (riparian and pre-1914 claims), or are authorized to divert more than 10 acre-feet per year under a permit, license, or registration, to measure and report the water they divert.  

For diversion or storage greater than or equal to 100 acre feet annually, the installation and certification of measurement methods must be approved by an Engineer/Contractor/Professional.  This course allows you to save this cost by being certified to carry out this process yourself.  In addition to instruction, printed materials covered by the course fee will provide you with the notes necessary for installing and reporting your measurements to the state water board.

IN THIS ISSUE

• Dewormer strategies for cow/calf pairs

           grazing irrigated pasture

• Should you consider an ionophore
• Buying Livestock Drugs in California
• Understanding and Managing Shrink…
• Vesicular Stomatitis Virus: An Unwelcome Guest in

         Livestock’s Mouth

• 5th Annual Agricultural Producer’s Day–

      - November 30, 2023   -

*Cattlemen's animal health meetings*

- Joint Shasta/Tehama Cattlemen's Association March 22nd

- Glenn/Colusa Cattlemen's Association March 27th

        Everyone's welcome!

Check out the Water Management and Reporting Courses coming up on March 2nd in Davis. See the Flyer below under "View Document" for more information. 

To register for this course go to

https://ucanr.edu/sites/UCCE_Shasta_County/files/379960.pdf

Mark your Calendars for the ...

2022 Tehama Ag Producers Day 

Thursday, December 1, 2022 --  8am to 2pm

at the Tehama District Fairgrounds

C.E. Credits 2.5 HRS Laws & Regs / 2.0 HRS Other = 4.5 Total HRS

• New PAC Competency Exam and What to Expect during a Pesticide Use Monitoring Inspection (Heather Kelly Tehama Dept. of Agriculture)
• Sustainable Water Use to Minimize Pesticide Use (Curt Pierce, UCCE)
• Fly and Ground Squirrel Control using Pesticides (Josh Davy, UCCE)
• What is the future for pest control in California? Reshaping Pesticide Use and Pest Control Technologies (Jim Houston, CA Farm Bureau)
• Respiratory Requirements (Harvard Fong DPR)
• Adhering to Label Requirements for use of Pesticides in Orchards (Brad Hanson, UCCE)

Complimentary Lunch

Be sure to check out the Vendor/Trade Show 

C.E. Credits: 4.5 (2.5 Hrs Laws & Regs  & 2.0 Other)

Please register by November 23, 2022

by calling the Tehama County Department of Agriculture at (530) 527-4504 or email your RSVP to MVieyra@tehamaag.net 

*In this issue*

1) Considerations for pastures that have lost irrigation water

2) Do you still have irrigation water?  Now is the time to think of pasture renovations

3) Neospora in beef cattle

• Considerations For Pastures That Have Lost Irrigation Water.
• Do you still have irrigation water for pastures? Now is the time to think of irrigated pasture renovations.
• Neospora in Beef Cattle.

*Meeting Announcement*

Cattle health workshops

March 9th - Orland Livestock Commission Yard

March 10th - Shasta Livestock Auction Yard

See the agenda at the link below

*Consider ammoniating rice straw*

*Cattle deworming considerations*

*Don't forget the mineral*

*Patching the eye when treating pinkeye*

*Steps to plant and establish summer dormant fescue*

*Monthly pasture production in the North Valley*

*Ag producer's continuing education day*

*Virtual water measurement reporting course*

*Livestock projects and 4-H*

*Meet our new water Advisor*

Disaster Ag pass meeting

September 23, 2021

4:30 PM - 6 PM

Elk Creek, CA

*Livestock and Range New*

• Foothill abortion vaccine available
• Wildfire ash: Impacts on forage crops
• How will fire affect annual rangeland and what should you consider doing
• Tehama County applicators continuing education day
• Dallisgrass staggers in irrigated pasture

The foothill abortion vaccine developed by Dr. Jeff Stott’s lab at UC Veterinary Medicine is now available commercially for purchase. Hygieia Biological Laboratories in Woodland is both producing and distributing the vaccine. Aministering the vaccine will take coordination between your veterinarian, Hygieia, and your own schedules so preparation three weeks in advance is important.  Click the link to learn the details. 

— MEETINGS POSTPONED  —

due to the concern of the Coronavirus, these meetings have been postponed until a later date.

Don't forget about zinc in mineral supplementation

Plus *Meeting announcements*

• Prescribed fire workshop March 25th
• Irrigated pasture workshop April 4th

*Winter Animal Health Meetings*
February 21, 2020

ORLAND
Orland Livestock Auction Yard
3877 Co Rd 99W, Orland, CA 95963
11:00 am—1:30 pm

COTTONWOOD
Shasta Livestock Auction Yard,
3917 Main Street, Cottonwood, CA
5:00 pm—8:00 pm

*Meeting Announcements*

Nov 18, 2019 — Tehama Growers Meeting /
Continued Education Hours Workshop

Nov 8, 2019 — Free Hands-on Water
Measurement Workshop

In this Issue...

• Beef Quality Assurance Training and Certification; August 15, 2019
• Fly Impacts and Control on Cattle
• Comparing the Last Two Years of Rangeland Production
• Determining Volume in a Small Pond with a Staff Gauge
• Nitrogen Fertilizer Considerations for Pasture
• Wildfire Ash Impacts on Irrigated Pasture and Hay

*Winter Animal Health Meetings*
February 15, 2019

ORLAND
Orland Livestock Auction Yard
3877 Co Rd 99W, Orland, CA 95963
11:00 am—1:45 pm

COTTONWOOD
Shasta Livestock Auction Yard,
3917 Main Street, Cottonwood, CA
5:15 pm—7:45 pm

Water Measurement and Reporting Course Complying with SB88

Thursday, August 30th, 2018

12:30 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.

Elk Creek Grange

151 Church St., Elk Creek, CA.  95939

Measurement and reporting Course Complying with SB88

 Tuesday, March 20, 2018

1:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.

Shasta Livestock Auction Yard

Cottonwood, CA

 OR

 Wednesday, March 21, 2018

12:30 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.

Adin Community Center

 Adin, CA

Winter Animal Health Meeting - February 16th 

Orland:          11:00 am-2:00 pm  Orland Livestock Auction Yard

                          3877 Co Rd. Hwy 99W, Orland

Cottonwood:  5:00 pm - 8:00 pm- Shasta Livestock Auction Yard

                          3917 Main Street, Cottonwood

• Current News on Beef Cattle Export Markets
• US Beef Cattle Market Outlook
• Ranch to Rail Outcomes
• What do Range Weeds Cost You in Cattle Gains Per Acre?
• Manganese: The Forgotten Beef Cattle Mineral

Temple Grandin  Friday February 23rd, 7-9am

                            $15.00 per person-by reservation

• Livestock Handling & Animal Behavior

• Blackberry Management
• Rotary Wiper Control of Smutgrass in Irrigated Pasture
• Consumption of Mineral by Yearling Cattle Grazing Annual Range and Irrigated Pasture
• Alleviating Worries for Nitrate and Prussic Acid Poisoning
• Beef Cattle Market Relationships

Winter Animal Health Meetings

February 17, 2017

Morning Meeting—Orland Livestock Yard

Evening Meeting—Cottonwood Livestock Yard

 Grass Tetany

Larry Forero, Josh Davy, and Dr. John Maas

Comparing Transline and Milestone herbicides

Josh Davy, Larry Forero, & Joe DiTomaso

*Meeting Announcement*

Drought management workshop at the Red Bluff Bull and Gelding Sale Friday January 27, 2017. Tehama District Fairgrounds - 8:00 AM - 10:30 AM

• Considerations for storing and feeding rained on hay
• Methods of Selenium Supplementation for beef cattle and Associated Weight Gains
• Medusahead Seed Suppression with Milestone Herbicide
• Does Feeding Bur Clover Through a Cow Work?

*Meeting Announcement*

CSU, Chico Beef Symposium

February 20, 2016

*Meeting Announcement*

Winter animal health meetings

Friday February 19th 2016

Maxwell Inn 11:30 AM - 2:00 PM

Cottonwood Livestock Auction Yard 5:30 PM - 8:00 PM

*Meeting Announcement*

Applied Reproductive Strategies in Beef Cattle

August 17-18, 2015

Davis, CA

*Meeting announcement*

Winter Animal Health Meetings 

February 20th, 2015

Willows, CA 11:00 AM - 1:40 PM

Cottonwood, CA 5:30 PM - 8:30 PM

*Rice straw field tour December 15th and 17th!*

Baling rice straw as strawladge can improve forage quality.  Two tours will offer livestock and rice producers a chance to determine if rice strawlage would work in their operations

*Workshop Announcement*

July 29th, 2014

Rice Straw— A New Method to Get Through a Drought

Demonstrations of rice straw research making this commodity a better option for drought years on rangeland

*Meeting Announcement*

Irrigated pasture workshop

April 5th, 2014

Los Molinos, CA

*Meeting Announcement*

Winter animal health meetings

Both meetings February 21, 2014

Lunch meeting 10 AM Willows

Dinner meeting 5 PM Cottonwood

In this Issue...

• Managing Cattle During Drought: Destocking and Early Weaning
• New Perennial Grass Tested for Sacramento Valley Foothill Rangeland
• Killer Oak Trees
• SRA Fees Boost Funding for CAL FIRE’s VMP Program
• Check for Vitamin A Deficiency
• Meeting Announcement: Mitigating Drought
• Class Offered: Shasta College A.I. School
• Save the Date: Winter Animal Health Meetings

April 2013 Livestock and Range News Contents:

*Meeting Announcement*

Sierra Foothill Research and Extension Center field day.

May 7, 2013

*Meeting Announcement*

2013 Spring Range Tour

Turri Ranch - Paskenta, CA

Saturday April, 13th 2013

9 AM to 1:30 PM

ANIMAL HEALTH WORKSHOPS

Friday February 22th, 2013

Willows, CA 11:00 AM-2:30 PM

Cottonwood, CA 4:30PM-8:30PM

*Special Edition of the Northern California Ranch Update*

In this Issue...

• Milestone (Aminopyralid) Applied Preemergence can Control Medusahead
• Assistance with Fish Screen on Diversions
• Selective Control of Barb Goatgrass with Aminocyclopyrachlor
• Warner-Brassler Shear Test Demonstration
• Important Facts to Know about the Herbicide: Glyphosate
• Understanding and Managing Shrink

Spring range tour April 17th, 2012

Pasture aeration trial results

Risk management workshop April 23rd, 2012   

ANIMAL HEALTH WORKSHOPS

Friday February 24th, 2012

Willows, CA 10:00 AM-2:30 PM

Cottonwood, CA 5:00PM-8:30PM

*Special edition of the Northern California Ranch Update*

In this Issue:

• Research Update on Using a Rotary Wiper
• Slender Aster Control
• Controlling Wire Grass in Irrigated Pastures
• Fertilizer for Annual Clover Establishment
• Effects of Heavy Grazing on Tarweed and Vinegarweed

Rangeland Decision Making Survey

*Update on smutgrass control research*

Meeting Announcements
Irrigated pasture workshop, April 9, 2011
Range tour in Elk Creek, April 21, 2011

ANIMAL HEALTH WORKSHOPS

Friday February 25th, 2011

Willows, CA 11:00 AM-2:00 PM

Cottonwood, CA 5:00PM-9:00PM

Smutgrass Management In Irrigated Pasture Meeting -- Oct 30, 2010
Cattlemen's Education Day -- Nov 20, 2010

Dallisgrass Staggers
Will this be a Bad Year for Grass Tetany?
Equine Influenza Hits the Valley
Common Groundsel and Fiddleneck
Cattle Reproduction Meeting in Williams
CSU, Chico Annual Beef Day
Stockmanship and Stewardship Tour hits Cottonwood
Cattle Reproduction Meeting in Cottonwood
Causes of Sudden Death in Cattle
Tehama County Cattlemen's Spring Field Day

Barb Goatgrass control assistance
EPD accuracy
Occurance of animal plant poisoning
Affect of transport on preg rates
Fiddleneck

CSU Chico Beef Day Announcement

Wildlife and Environmental Stewardship Day Announcement

Individual Animal ID
Treatment of Calf Scours
UC Brings New Tools for Cow Culling Descisions
Milestone:  A New Herbicide
Checklist for lease
Managing Norther CA Annual Rangeland