UC Rice Blog

BUTTE, a rice herbicide, has received federal registration in the USA as well as state registration in California. It will be available to California rice growers for the upcoming 2017 season.

UC Cooperative Extension entomologist Larry Godfrey, a 26-year member of the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology faculty and widely known for his research on applied insect ecology and integrated pest management (IPM) strategies, died April 18, succumbing to cancer. He was 60. Dr.

Whitney Brim-DeForest, UCCE Rice Advisor We talk about herbicide resistance all of the time in California rice. But how does it evolve in a field? Understanding how herbicide management selects for resistant populations is an important part of preventing the problem from occuring in your fields.

Optimizing Insect Control and Grain Quality Wednesday, April 5, 2017 9:00AM - 3:00PM Lundberg Family Farms 5311 Midway Richvale, CA 95974 We would like to invite you to attend an exciting and informative workshop on insect pest management at rice mills and rice storage facilities.

During our Jan 2017 winter meetings, I conducted a short clicker survey about how bad tadpole shrimp (TPS) has become in the past few years. There were a couple of technical difficulties, and attendees to the Richvale meeting didn't get to see the answer to the questions.