The BioSolutions Conference and Expo is celebrating its 10th year in 2025. This milestone event, held in Fresno, CA, offers the latest insights into biological products, sustainable farming, regenerative agriculture, and emerging technologies providing practical strategies for growers to implement directly on their farms. The agenda is packed with numerous learning and networking opportunities. One of those opportunities is the pre-conference farm tour. Click through the gallery below for a front-row seat to what was seen and heard during stops at the UC Kearney Agricultural Research and Extension Center, Wylie Farms, and Dorval Winery. Enjoy your virtual pass to the BioSolutions 2025 pre-conference farm tour!
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University of California Kearney Agricultural Research and Extension (KARE) Center’s Robert Willmott giving an insider’s view of the local ag community. | All photos courtesy of Carol Miller
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Attendees arrive at the first tour stop, KARE Center. Researchers there are learning about how effective cover crops can be in orchards.
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While at the KARE Center, attendees learned about tea crop research and how it fares in the Central Valley.
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Attendees soaking it all in at the KARE Center stop as part of the BioSolutions 2025 pre-conference tour.
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James Brown greets tourists and discusses parasitoids on berries at the KARE Center’s Daane Lab.
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While at the Daane Lab, attendees got an up-close look at beneficial wasps ready to attack spotted wing drosophila.
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Beneficial wasps growing in rotting berries at the Daane Lab.
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Infected blueberries at the Daane Lab.
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Justin Wylie, owner of Wylie Ranch, shows off his living water system at the second tour stop.
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Silas Rossow of California Ag Solutions explains how Wylie Farms is using carbonic acid rather than sulphuric acid to lower the pH of its irrigation water for its citrus groves. It’s effective for organic production.
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Jonah Parker of MyLand explains how they’re growing beneficial algae.
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Check out this healthy orange grove at Wylie Farms.
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The third stop of the tour was Dorval Vineyards.
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Dorval Vineyards raised its irrigation lines in hopes to avoid damage from squirrels and rabbits.
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This windmill at Dorval Vineyards taps into an artesian spring.
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