UC Rice Blog

With planting season coming up, thinking about appropriate variety selection is key, and one of the first steps towards ensuring a good 2021 crop. Each year the California Rice Research Board funds a statewide variety trial testing program. Here I summarize some of that data.

Considerations for choosing the right medium grain rice variety With planting season coming up, thinking about appropriate variety selection is key, and one of the first steps towards ensuring a good 2021 crop.

2021 Rice Growers Meeting When: February 11, 2021, 9:00am-12:00 PM Where: Virtual via Zoom Registration: $10 Register at: https://ucanr.edu/survey/survey.

In 2017, I started getting reports of a watergrass biotype/species (Echinochloa spp.) that was difficult to control using our suite of herbicides registered in rice.

University of California Cooperative Extension Sutter-Yuba-Colusa is holding a 3-hour pest management webinar on Wednesday, December 9th, 2020 to provide pest management information and research updates on some of the major annual crops in the Sacramento Valley.