For the last five years, AgIS Capital has been utilizing powdery mildew spore traps within our wine grape vineyards as part of an Integrated Pest Management (IPM) program.

AgIS Capital is pleased to partner with Napa County and the University of California, Davis (UC Davis) on a project to monitor the American Kestrel on one of our permanent crop assets.

AgIS Capital recently underwent an annual surveillance audit to maintain our certification to the Leading Harvest Sustainable Farmland Management Standard.

As we are wrapping up almond and walnut harvest on our client assets, our asset management team has been enjoying the benefits of leaving a live cover crop in the orchard middles this harvest season instead of spraying or cultivating to remove them.

This month, we hosted a group on one of our farms to showcase some creative management strategies that can be used in the implementation of the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SGMA) in California.

Earlier this year, AgIS Capital was audited, and we have successfully renewed our certification to the Leading Harvest Sustainable Farmland Management Standard.

AgIS Capital is trialing the incorporation of California native bumblebees on some of our clients’ almond farms.

AgIS Capital has invested in significant infrastructure to improve the capacity to utilize surface water on two farms in California.

This growing season our farm team has once again been conducting distribution uniformity tests on California permanent crop irrigation systems.

This summer, AgIS Capital once again was audited to ensure conformance to the Leading Harvest Sustainable Farmland Management Standard. We are happy to report that we remain in conformance to this important standard.

This winter and spring, the cover crops in our orchards and vineyards have been providing the farms with a multitude of benefits.

This month, the AgIS Capital Operations Team held an annual meeting to complete safety and compliance trainings, as well as discuss strategy on sustainability and governance.

Each year we graze sheep through a vineyard, and they provide the property with a multitude of benefits.

This summer AgIS Capital worked with the Tehama County Resource Conservation District to perform a distribution uniformity test on Olives and Walnuts that we manage. Read our latest article to learn more about this sustainability effort.

Leading Harvest is an important organization that helps us contribute to advancing sustainable agriculture and provides public assurance of our sustainable farming systems through the publicly available audit reports.

Facilitating nesting and hunting habitat for predatory birds is a key biodiversity effort on AgIS Capital farms.

AgIS Capital continues to invest in solar to utilize clean energy and improve economic performance of our clients’ investments.

AgIS Capital is currently undergoing a water conservation project in Washington by applying irrigation water in three ways. These systems have been designed so that the least amount of irrigation water will be used to produce high yields of premium quality fruit, while significantly reducing food waste from heat damage during the Summer months.