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Tomato seedlings are going into the ground at Rominger Brothers Farms as planting season gets underway in Northern California. These are canning tomatoes that are processed into tomato soup, pizza sauce and other delicious foods.
It's the time of year when the sheep at Rominger Brothers Farms get their wool sheared. Clockwise from upper left, wooly sheep are lined up to enter the sheep-shearing trailer. The shearing crew works quickly and efficiently to shear all the sheep. A freshly sheared Rambouillet sheep is ready to rejoin the flock. Ernie Fairchild, owner of the Buhl, Idaho-based Fairchildshearing LLC, and his crew travel throughout a half-dozen Western states to shear commercial sheep flocks and load up the fleeces for processing. The wool shorn from sheep at Rominger Brothers Farms will be milled at the Oregon-based Pendleton Woolen Mills and made into shirts, blankets and other wool products.
German farmers visited Rominger Brothers Farms where they learned about almond production from grower Bruce Rominger. During their visit, which was sponsored by Yolo 365 Tours, a truckload of sheep was delivered, and the group watched livestock producer John Oligary and his crew unload the flock at the Rominger ranch to graze on the grass-covered foothills.
 As this year's growing season gets underway at Rominger Brothers Farms, a crop duster applies fertilizer to a winter wheat field near the Coast Range Mountains.
Bruce Rominger discusses climate change issues that farmers face in this video produced by the Woodland, California-based Center for Land-Based Learning. This video, which is part of the "Farming for Our Future" series, is funded in part by the California Arts Council, a state agency.  The rice harvest ended this week. Rominger Rice had more than one combine harvester operating in the field near Knights Landing. In this video clip, Eric Willson operates the combine while Juan Carlos Vega drives the tractor pulling the bankout wagon, which is used to haul the rice out of the field. Ultimately, the rice gets hauled by trucks to the grain dryer prior to milling by Farmers Rice Cooperative.
Yolo County tomato farmer Bruce Rominger, second from left, speaks about the need for robotic weeding equipment during a panel presentation at the International Federation of Robotics in Agriculture conference in Woodland, California. The conference featured the latest technology available in agricultural business, from drones to robots and other automated equipment. The panel was moderated by Zach Bagley of the California Tomato Research Institute, left, and included panelists Skeeter Bethea of The Morning Star Co. and Patricia Lazicki, University of California Cooperative Extension vegetable crops adviser.
 A film crew from Bright Coast Productions in Sacramento films Rominger Brothers Farms president Bruce Rominger, left, for a documentary about climate change and sustainable agriculture. For part of the video, Bruce demonstrates the use of technology in the field during the tomato harvest in August. The "Farming for our Future" video is co-sponsored by the Center for Land-Based Learning, a non-profit agricultural education organization located in Woodland.
 Our broccoli crop was just transplanted as seedlings. This is a seed crop that we are producing for Sakata Seed. After we harvest it next year, the seed will be planted by another farmer and produced as a food crop.
 California Secretary of Agriculture Karen Ross discusses a grant program to develop agricultural technology curricula at California community colleges during her presentation yesterday at Sierra College in Rocklin that was moderated by Yolo County farmer Bruce Rominger. Western Growers Association sponsored the meeting. |
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March 2025
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