UC Rice Blog

We are looking for rice growers who would like to collaborate with UCCE on a drip-tape irrigated rice and tomato rotation project. The project, if funded, would start in 2025 and run for 3 years (until 2028).

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As I write this in early April, the weather is shifting back and forth between being warm and cold and there is the occasional rainfall. Many of you have started or are thinking about starting ground work in preparation for planting.

With funding from the CDFA Healthy Soils Program and CA Rice Research Board, we are evaluating how well different cover crop species establish, provide soil coverage, affect soil carbon and nitrogen dynamics, and/or impact rice yield in subsequent growing seasons.

A system of permanently flooded rice and a lack of diverse weed management techniques have selected for flood-tolerant weed populations in California water-seeded rice fields.