UC Rice Blog

Organic Rice: Current Research and Future Needs July 26, 9:00 am 2:00 pm UCCE Sutter-Yuba Conference Room 142 Garden Hwy Yuba City, CA 95991 In this meeting, the UCCE rice team will present general guidelines and recent research that can help California organic rice growers improve management.

A Celebration of life will be held on June 25, 11:30 am for Carl William Johnson, which follows the regular Sunday service that concludes at 11 am. Guests will have an opportunity to share their memories and reflection on Carl's life. A reception will follow the service.

We are trying something this year that we have not ever tried. We are drill seeding rice into fields that have not been tilled this season. Why are we doing this? It is one way to save considerable amounts of irrigation water. We estimate that up to 0.5 ac ft/ac of water could be saved.

The 2023 Rice Production Manual is available for download here. The Manual was produced in association with the 2023 Rice Production Workshop; it describes the principles of rice production based on research conducted in the rice production areas of California.

I recently visited a field that had quite a bit of rice seed midge injury. In this case, the seedlings that were not injured were almost at the one leaf stage, and one could observe quite a few seeds still in the soil surface.