Cal Poly’s Small Ruminant Operations Student Managers are working hard to ensure the safety of approximately 150 lambs born during lamb season, while also learning about holistic management and sustainable practices.
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Where your fruit comes from: inside Cal Poly’s U-Pick Orchard
The Cal Poly U-Pick is a fully student-operated orchard that grows a variety of crops available for public purchase throughout the year. Currently offering citrus fruits like clementines and mandarins, the U-Pick allows visitors to harvest their own produce and pay by weight. Reporter Sedona Harris went out to learn why students manage every aspect […]
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Central Coast farms foster community through honor code initiatives
SLO Ranch and City Farm SLO are two examples of local businesses using the honor code to promote community engagement and provide access to local food, while Finley Farms uses an honor stand to provide access to organic produce and connect producers to the community.
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Learn baah doing: a look at Cal Poly’s Goat Enterprise
Even though Cal Poly has sizable agriculture and animal science programs, seeing a group of goats walking around campus is still a surprise. These furry friends belong to the Goat Enterprise, a class where students get hands-on experience caring for and working with goats. Student Managers Matt Habib and Rachel Colby describe what the duties […]
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GPS collars shape the future of grazing at Cal Poly
Five miles northwest of Cal Poly, cows equipped with tiny GPS trackers are munching away in a golden field. In this quiet scientific revolution on Cal Poly’s pastures, GPS collars transform livestock into high-tech data gatherers, revealing their every step and bite. Researchers and cattle managers then analyze the data to understand their behaviors. Simply, […]
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Planting Seeds: Student Growth in the Mind and Field
It was Anthony Roensch’s first day of class out on the farms, and his class was meeting at Field 26. He didn’t even know there were 26 fields on campus. Roensch, a senior construction management student, had signed up for something way out of his comfort zone. He got lost angrily wandering the expansive land […]
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Growing together: Meet the team behind Cal Poly’s Organic Farm
Most Cal Poly students navigate the bustling concrete campus, weaving through crowds and clanging bells to get to class. Environmental management and protection senior Moe Lee’s schedule looks a bit different. Their usual route is along a lengthy gravel path, past endless rows of fruit trees. After walking through a fence, Lee arrives at their […]
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On the killing floor: Watching a cow slaughter for the first time
I had recently been critically exploring my relationship with food. Rather than going through the motions of eating, I wanted to be in tune with what I ate, where it came from and how it made me feel.
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Plants get sick too: A look into strawberry pathology at Cal Poly
The purposely diseased strawberry fields are the greatest source of information for the research performed by the Cal Poly Strawberry Center, and, in turn, the California strawberry industry, Hewavitharana said.
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Cal Poly hosts state FFA finals, going on its eighth decade
Cal Poly hosted the California State FFA Finals completion on Saturday, April 30, marking more than eight decades of the event being hosted on the university’s campus. The event brought in more than 2,000 students from across the state to the university, according to a university news release. Participants competed in 22 events throughout the […]
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WATCH: Tractors and Trucks Race at the Cal Poly Tractor Pull
The Cal Poly Truck and Tractor Pull is an annual Open House tradition put on by the CP Tractor Pull Club. This year’s event differed from previous years both in location and time and was almost canceled until the rodeo program lended use of its grounds. Mustang News reporter Victoria Bochniak takes us behind the […]