UC Small Grains Blog

2018 California Plant and Soil Conference

January 18, 2018

By Mark E Lundy

Registration for the 2018 California Plant and Soil Conference is open. The conference will be held from February 6th - February 7th at the Fresno Doubletree Hotel and Convention Center and will include a wide array of topics of interest to California Agriculture.

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Announcing an Interactive Webtool for Small Grain Variety Selection

October 9, 2017

By Mark E Lundy

The beta version of an interactive webtool for California small grain variety selection is now available on the Small Grains portion of the UC Agronomy Research and Information Center Website: http://smallgrains.ucanr.

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2017 California Small Grain Variety Testing Data

September 27, 2017

By Mark E Lundy

Results from the 2016-2017 Fall-planted small grain variety trials throughout California are now available.

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Start planning your nitrogen management strategy for fall-planted wheat now (and consider using a N-rich reference strip to manage your N more precisely)

August 24, 2017

Recent UCCE research has illustrated the value of in-season applications of nitrogen (N) fertilizer, particularly applications made at the early vegetative growth stages.

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2017 UC Small Grain Variety Testing Program

Preliminary yield results from fall-planted 2016-17 variety trials

August 4, 2017

By Michelle M Leinfelder-Miles, Brian H Marsh, Steven D Wright, Mark E Lundy

Preliminary grain yield results for our fall-planted common wheat, triticale, durum wheat and barley trials are now available on the UC Small Grains Research and Information Center website: http://smallgrains.ucanr.

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