UC Rice Blog

The San Joaquin County and Delta Rice Growers Meeting will be Monday, March 3, 2014 from 1:00-4:00pm at the Cabral Agricultural Center (2101 E. Earhart Ave., Stockton, CA 95206). See the agenda below, and please contact Michelle Leinfelder-Miles, Delta farm advisor, with questions.

2014 Annual Rice Grower Meetings Sponsored by UC Cooperative Extension -------------- 4 Locations -------------- WHERE & WHEN Richvale: Monday, Jan. 27, 8:00 am, Evangelical Church, 5219 Church St., Richvale Glenn: Monday, Jan.

Save the date! Richvale: Monday, Jan. 27, 8:00 am, Evangelical Church, 5219 Church St., Richvale Glenn: Monday, Jan. 27, 1:00 pm, Glenn Pheasant Hall, 1522 Highway 45, south of Glenn Colusa: Friday, Jan. 31, 8:00 am, CIP Conference Room, 100 Sunrise Blvd., Colusa Yuba City: Friday, Jan.

In the last post I described some experiments I was conducting to determine if the redshouldered stink bug could be the cause of some "mysterious" cases of pecky rice. The result is clear: when caged on heading rice plants, this stink bug can definitively feed on developing kernels and cause peck.

Every year for the past 3 or 4 years I've been hearing of rice that is graded No. 2 because of "peck". It's always been just a few isolated cases, except in 2011 when we had some early rains during harvest. The free water on the surface of the the grains may allow fungi to grow and stain the kernel.