UC Rice Blog

We all know it has been a warm year. In fact, in 2014 the average daily temperature for May and June was 72.2 degrees (CIMIS-Colusa). This is 2.4 degrees warmer than the average of the last 20 years and 3.3 degrees warmer than the average of the last 5 years.

It is still too early to know if this is going to be a year with high incidence and severity of rice blast.

Author: Paul Spraycar, The Nature Conservancy BirdReturns is a new program from the Nature Conservancy (TNC), organized in cooperation with the California Rice Commission BirdReturns compensates growers to provide shorebird habitat manage your straw and maintain at least 2 of water for 2-8 weeks in...

The milestone signaling the beginning of the reproductive stage is panicle initiation (PI). At this moment, the cells at the shoot apex, which is just above soil, start transforming into the panicle; however, this primordial panicle is not visible yet.

Last year, resistance to the herbicide propanil was confirmed in populations of smallflower umbrella sedge and ricefield bulrush.