UC Rice Blog

The California Rice Research Board supports our statewide variety trail evaluation each year. This project runs nine variety trails around the state and evaluates commercially available lines as well as promising lines that are coming out of the Rice Experiment Station. These are large trails with each one…

In California, 533,000 acres of rice were planted in 2025, which is the highest amount since 2016. Some of this increase in acreage was seen in San Joaquin County which planted 15,000 acres in 2025. There has been a steady increase in acreage in this county since 2017 when only 3000 acres were planted. …

Authors: Robinson Johnson, Deniz Inci, Kassim Al-KhatibDepartment of Plant Sciences, University of California, Davis Background White Water Fire (Bergia capensis L.) is an annual broadleaf weed native to southern China, tropical Asia, and Africa, which was recently reported in a California rice…

Contact: UCCE Sutter–Yuba142A Garden HighwayYuba City, CA 95991Phone: (530) 822-7515Email: wbrimdeforest@ucanr.edu RICHVALE, CA — Rice growers and agricultural professionals from across the Sacramento Valley are invited to attend the 2026 Rice Production Workshop, a two-day educational program…

Author: Timothy Blank, Director of Seed Certification Operations, California Crop Improvement Association (CCIA)~28,500 acres were inspected by the California Crop Improvement Association in 2025, of which 25,783 acres were eligible for seed production. Of the eligible acres harvested for seed, 1117 were…