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DPR Report Confirms Vital Role of Chloropicrin
DPR Report Confirms Vital Role of Chloropicrin

The California Council on Science and Technology (CCST), commissioned a report by the California Department of Pesticide Regulation underscoring chloropicrin in modern agriculture. No alternative can replace this soil fumigant, and its role in managing soil-borne pests in high-value crops.

3/24/2025
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Landmark Irrigation Project in Chowchilla
Landmark Irrigation Project in Chowchilla

Landmark Irrigation finished a job in Chowchilla, California replacing filters to ensure peak efficiency and water quality for our growers. Choosing the right filter – type, size and quantity - is essential for maximizing system performance and protecting your investment.

3/19/2025
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Landmark Irrigation Prepares for Pecan Project
Landmark Irrigation Prepares for Pecan Project

Exciting developments are underway at Landmark Irrigation! Our team is currently staging PVC pipe in preparation for a 200-acre pecan project near Woodland, California. This initiative exemplifies Landmark's commitment to delivering top-tier irrigation solutions for our clients.

3/13/2025
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TriCal visiting the WIVI Central Coast Conference
TriCal visiting the WIVI Central Coast Conference

The WIVI Central Coast Conference 2025 will be in Paso Robles, CA, on March 13 at the Paso Robles Event Center. Don’t miss the chance to visit the TriCal Inc. booth. Stop by their booth to explore how we can work together to boost productivity and sustainability in your operation.

3/12/2025
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Citrus Showcase at the Visalia Convention Center
Citrus Showcase at the Visalia Convention Center

Join Landmark Irrigation at the Citrus Showcase at the Visalia Convention Center on Wednesday, March 12, 2025. Visit booth #37 to explore solutions designed to enhance and optimize irrigation systems. Landmark looks forward to sharing insights on best practices in citrus irrigation.

3/11/2025
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TriCal is Up Early and Ready to Work
TriCal is Up Early and Ready to Work

Long before the sun rises, TriCal's technicians are already in the field, ensuring your soil fumigation begins with precision and care. TriCal's experienced fumigation teams understands that high-quality soil treatments starts with doing the job right from the very beginning.

3/6/2025
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Trical attends Pistachio Conference in Monterey, CA
Trical attends Pistachio Conference in Monterey, CA

TriCal Group’s affiliated companies are attending the Pistachio Industry Annual Conference in the Monterey Conference Center. Trical would enjoy connecting with you to discuss your soil's health and optimize your irrigation systems to help your pistachio crops thrive.

2/25/2025
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Raspberry Soil Fumigation Project in Santa Maria
Raspberry Soil Fumigation Project in Santa Maria

TriCal Inc. recently completed a soil fumigation project for a raspberry crop in the Santa Maria area. Trical Inc. help growers create a healthy root system, control disease, and improved crop yields. Soil fumigation solutions can maximize your yield and protect your soil health.

2/19/2025
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Landmark supports College of the Sequoias Tulare Campus
Landmark supports College of the Sequoias Tulare Campus

Last week The Landmark Irrigation staff from our Exeter branch attended the ribbon cutting at the College of the Sequoias Tulare Campus’ new Applied Technology & Trades Complex, a facility to help California take on feeding the nation and the world.

2/4/2025
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Vikane Caretakers Class hosted by Cardinal
Vikane Caretakers Class hosted by Cardinal

On January 28th Cardinal Professional Products hosted the 2025 Vikane Caretakers class in our training facility at the Anaheim office. Plenty of the best tacos and our Douglas Products partners along with over 75 attendees made for a great get together where we all were brought up to speed on the new Vikane label,as well as all the latest updates.

1/28/2025
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"California Grown" Strawberries Heading to Market

Keep an eye out for "California Grown" strawberries on your next shopping trip your grocery store. Trical believes great strawberries begin with healthy soil with soil fumigation solutions designed to support vigorous plant growth and produce berries with exceptional size and quality.

1/27/2025
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Water Filtration Setup Completed for a Citrus Orchard in California
Water Filtration Setup Completed for a Citrus Orchard in California

Designed with low maintenance and efficiency in mind, this filtration setup completed for a citrus orchard includes key features like proper venting, a quick-acting pressure relief valve, and a flow meter to ensure optimal performance.

1/21/2025
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Sunrise over Raspberry Fields in California
Sunrise over Raspberry Fields in California

Trical added another raspberry field added to thier growing portfolio—there’s nothing quite like starting the day early and witnessing a stunning sunrise over the fields. Moments like this remind us why we’re passionate about what we do.

1/15/2025
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Cardinal visits California Pest Management Association PestEd South
Cardinal visits California Pest Management Association PestEd South

Cardinal Professional Products had a fun day with our friends at the California Pest Management Association PestEd South event. It was a great opportunity to stay connected with the industry and gain some insight on what’s new in 2025.

1/14/2025
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Cardinal Attends California Walnut Conference
Cardinal Attends California Walnut Conference

William Woodhouse, ACE, PHE and Holly Hannigan are spending the day at the California Walnut Conference in Yuba City! They are staffing booth 81 to offer information about IGI Co2, fumigation options, regulatory support and safety supplies!

1/10/2025
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Raspberry Soil Fumigation on the Coastal California
Raspberry Soil Fumigation on the Coastal California

Trical Inc. just completed a raspberry soil fumigation project along Coastal California, helping a local farmer ensure a thriving harvest season. Booking a consultation with a Trical Inc PCA can help farmers learn how to support the success of a farmer's planting season.

1/7/2025
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Enjoy California’s Bounty: Grown with Pride
Enjoy California’s Bounty: Grown with Pride

With its rich soils, diverse climates, and innovative farming techniques, California has cultivated an impressive array of more than 400 commodities. Remarkably, the state is the sole producer of key crops such as almonds, artichokes, celery, garlic, kiwifruit, and walnuts

12/23/2024
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Trical Inc. fumigating Strawberry Fields fighting Nemotodes
Trical Inc. fumigating Strawberry Fields fighting Nemotodes

Despite the overcast skies in Santa Maria, California, dedicated technicians are hard at work treating the strawberry fields to mitigate soil-borne diseases like nematodes. This proactive farmer is ensuring that the upcoming planting season will be both smooth and successful.

12/17/2024
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Trical Group is at the Almond Conference
Trical Group is at the Almond Conference

Cardinal Professional Products, Trical Inc., Landmark Irrigation and Trical Diagnostics are representing the Trical Group by exhibiting at this year’s Almond Board of California! Looking forward to seeing all our friends and meeting some new ones.

12/11/2024
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Dawn breaks as Trical Inc. is Already on the Job
Dawn breaks as Trical Inc. is Already on the Job

Trical Inc. is at work in the field before dawn breaks. Trical Inc.'s team of experts is committed to delivering high-quality soil treatments customized to meet your unique requirements by being an ally that respects your time and investment. Soil Fumigation is a solid start is essential for long-term success.

12/11/2024
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Amanda Hernandez selected for this year’s Almond Leadership Program
Amanda Hernandez selected for this year’s Almond Leadership Program

We are also proud to celebrate Amanda Hernandez, a valued member of our team at Trical Inc., who was selected for this year’s Almond Leadership Program. For her project, Amanda created a stunning almond cookbook that earned 1st Prize among all participants.

11/23/2024
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Soil Treatment Project in Carlsbad, California
Soil Treatment Project in Carlsbad, California

Here’s a recent soil treatment project that Trical completed in the beautiful flower fields of Carlsbad, California. The work focused on creating a weed-free, nutrient-rich foundation to support a vibrant, healthy bloom this coming spring. We’re as eager as you are to see these fields come alive with color.

11/21/2024
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Cardinal visits the San Joaquin Valley
Cardinal visits the San Joaquin Valley

Cardinal teammates from Fresno spent the day with the Western Agricultural Processors Association and California Air Resources Board from San Joaquin Valley.

11/20/2024
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Strawberry Raised Beds in Santa Maria
Strawberry Raised Beds in Santa Maria

These strawberry raised beds in Santa Maria, CA are getting prepped and ready for a productive planting season with Trical Inc. This grower is taking proactive steps to manage weeds and soilborne diseases, setting the stage for a healthy, successful harvest.

11/19/2024
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Landmark Irrigation Features Sand Media Filter Tanks
Landmark Irrigation Features Sand Media Filter Tanks

Maintaining peak efficiency in your irrigation system is essential to keep California crops thriving. Landmark Irrigation shows off some new installed sand media filter tanks to help irrigation systems running smoothly for a productive growing season.

11/13/2024
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Rooted Together - The Almond Conference
Rooted Together - The Almond Conference

TriCal Group is excited to share that our four companies, TriCal Inc., TriCal Diagnostics, Landmark Irrigation, and Cardinal Professional Products will be exhibiting at Rooted Together The Almond Conference on December 10-12 in Sacramento, CA.

11/11/2024
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Carlos Garcia featured in American Vineyard, California Fruit and Vegetable
Carlos Garcia featured in American Vineyard, California Fruit and Vegetable

With 50 years in the agriculture industry, 25 of those have been with TriCal Inc. Carlos reflects, “People often say to find a career you’re passionate about, and it won’t feel like work. I’m lucky enough to work with crops I love, and my job feels more like a hobby."

10/29/2024
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TriCal Inc. covers in California in Plastic
TriCal Inc. covers in California in Plastic

At TriCal Inc. prioritizes safety, and stewardship to ensure that we can continue growing healthy fruits and vegetables while safeguarding our communities and the environment. It keeps soil treatments contained, ensuring they stay in place and don't spread beyond the field.

10/21/2024
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Strawberry Fall Fumigation Underway
Strawberry Fall Fumigation Underway

This grower in Santa Maria, California is prepping their soil now to ensure a bountiful strawberry harvest. TriCal’s qualified Pest Control Advisors (PCAs) offer valuable guidance to strawberry growers, helping them maintain a healthy soil biome while prioritizing environmental stewardship.

10/16/2024
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California Association of Pest Control Advisers Agri-Expo and Conference
California Association of Pest Control Advisers Agri-Expo and Conference

We were onsite in Anaheim, CA at the 50th California Association of Pest Control Advisers Agri-Expo and Conference. Our California TELONE™ Specialist, Brian Hegland, was there answering PCA and grower questions about nematode management solutions with TELONE™.

10/15/2024
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Sweetpotato Solarization Innovative Technique
Sweetpotato Solarization Innovative Technique

We recently completed a project for a sweetpotato nursery, commonly known as hotbeds, utilizing an innovative solarization technique. This field is taking full advantage of the summer season, and the customer also opted for our soil treatment to ensure effective management of soilborne pests.

10/3/2024
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Trical visits with California Legislators Advocating for Soil Fumigation
Trical visits with California Legislators Advocating for Soil Fumigation

Colleagues Courtney Ross-Tait and Kara KeziosKara Kezios were in sunny Sacramento educating legislators and advocating for the benefits of soil fumigation. Soil fumigation leads to soil health by creating healthy root systems. TriCal, Inc. has been in business for over 60 years improving crop yield and quality for farmers and growers in California and all over the world.

10/1/2024
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TriCal Inc. Women in Ag Campaign
TriCal Inc. Women in Ag Campaign

For the past two months (July and August), TriCal Inc. has been proudly promoting our Women in Ag campaign across our social media platforms. We hope you’ve been following along as we have introduced the remarkable women in agriculture who are part of our team. These women are essential to our organization, and our success wouldn’t be possible without each of them.

8/28/2024
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Trical Grape Field Trial (Modesta, CA): Documented Importance of Soil Fumigation
Trical Grape Field Trial (Modesta, CA): Documented Importance of Soil Fumigation

In the Fall of 2019, Dr. Kristi Sanchez began a Grape Field Trial in Modesto, CA, investigating soil fumigation methods and their impact on vineyard performance. The trial focused on assessing TriClor adoption in vineyards alongside the performance of TELONE™ II.

3/27/2024
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California Is Nuts
California Is Nuts

The Almond Board of California hosted the 51st Annual Almond Conference, sharing our knowledge and connecting others in the industry. The conference supported the Almond Industry in field trial research that TriCal Group does through our companies (TriCal Diagnostics, TriCal Inc., Landmark Irrigation, and Cardinal Professional Products).

1/9/2024
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Potatoes Following in Strawberries’ Footsteps, But Can Potatoes be as Nimble?
Potatoes Following in Strawberries’ Footsteps, But Can Potatoes be as Nimble?

The parallels between where we are in the potato industry today compared to where California’s strawberry industry was in the 1950s are quite amazing. Strawberries are very sensitive to verticillium. Do I think chloropicrin is coming in potatoes? Absolutely.

9/27/2023
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Educational Outreach: Agknowledge Program in Salinas, California
Educational Outreach: Agknowledge Program in Salinas, California

The Agknowledge Program in Salinas, CA, organized by the Grower-Shipper Association Foundation, is an excellent initiative that brings together key stakeholders in the Monterey County community to educate them on critical issues affecting the local agricultural industry.

9/23/2023
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New Report Finds 97% of Fruits and Vegetables Sampled in California Meet Pesticide Safety Standards
New Report Finds 97% of Fruits and Vegetables Sampled in California Meet Pesticide Safety Standards

The DPR released the 2021 California Pesticide Residue Monitoring Program Report showing that 97% of produce collected in 2021 had no detectable pesticide residues. More than 98% of “grown in California” produce had no residues that exceeded allowable levels.

6/1/2023
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California's Top 10 Agricultural Commodities:

  1. Dairy Products, Milk — $8.13 billion
  2. Grapes — $6.52 billion
  3. Cattle and Calves — $4.76 billion
  4. Lettuce — $3.93 billion
  5. Almonds — $3.88 billion
  6. Pistachios — $2.98 billion
  7. Strawberries — $2.97 billion
  8. Tomatoes — $2.01 billion
  9. Carrots — $1.67 billion
  10. Broilers — $1.24 billion
  11. (source: NC Department of Agriculture)

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Trical Inc.
"We are farm consultants, helping growers to get the greatest return on investment for their crop while helping them navigate the regulations and use requirements. We are custom applicators so we have hands-on, direct field experience. We provide field support and technicians. Just like my father (TriCal Co-Founder & President) said in 1963, ‘we have proved the worth of these methods.’ We work hand in hand with growers so they can reap the benefits."

- Dean Storkan, TriCal President


Teleos Ag Solutions
Teleos Ag Solutions is the Exclusive Global Distributor of TELONE™ and is commited to helping growers attain increased crop yields and improved sustainability through TELONE™, the-best-in-class nematode management solution.

Landmark Irrigation
Landmark Irrigation was started by farmers since 1990 and is still family ran, although the family has definitely grown! Landmark is a turn key irrigation dealer, serving California’s Central Valley Ag industry.

Since inception, Landmark has acquired several irrigation business allowing us to help customers in Northern and Southern CA, California’s costal region and Kingman, AZ.

Trical Diagnostics
TriCal Diagnostics is a team of highly experienced plant pathology diagnosticians that has extensive knowledge of practical field plant pathology, microbiological and molecular identification techniques, plant pathology research, and production agriculture and horticulture.

Tri-Tech specializes in creating customized nutrient management and crop protection plans tailored to the unique conditions of each field. Their agronomists combine lab analyses of soil, water, and plant tissue with field history and direct field observations to develop protocols designed to improve soil quality, enhance nutrient uptake efficiency, and reduce pest pressure.

Cardinal Pro Products
Since 1964, Cardinal has been partnering with its customers to achieve best-in-class fumigation and safety resultsand is a leader in residential, structural, and food processing pest management throughout the United States.