- Author: Mark Lundy
Well, it' been raining!
Unfortunately, it has not been very well distributed across time. With so much rain coming all at once, many of our medium-to-heavy textured soils in the Sacramento Valley are saturated. Having seen a handful of wheat crops with partially submerged seedlings over the last few days, symptoms associated with waterlogging were on the mind. Here are some nice photos of the adverse effects of submergence on plant growth:
https://www.agric.wa.gov.au/mycrop/waterlogging
Rain is the only way out of the drought, so let's not wish it away for too long, just long enough to keep some oxygen in the root zone!
- Author: Mark Lundy
With the summer season wrapping up, people are starting to look ahead to the wheat season. I talked to a grower recently about the timing of N demand for irrigated wheat grown in the Sacramento Valley. Based on the N rate and timing studies we began last year (and will continue this year), I put together a few figures that may be of interest in planning for the upcoming season.
The first is a depiction of the cumulative and daily demand for N by a high-yielding (7500 lb/acre) wheat crop with 11.5% protein.
This was based on measurements taken from last year's multiple N-rate, multiple N-timing study, where we grew Patwin (a hard white wheat) and Cal Rojo (a hard red wheat). It's important to note that the...
- Author: Mark Lundy
There will be a workshop outside of Arbuckle on the benefits of hedgerows for farms in the Sacramento Valley next Wednesday, 10/8 from 8:30-10:45.
Follow the links for more details on the AGENDA and a MAP to the location.
Hope to see you there!
- Author: Mark Lundy
There will be a tour of second-year poplars purpose-grown for bioenergy production in Clarksburg, CA from Noon - 2:30 PM on September 10th, 2014.
For more information and to RSVP, follow this link:
http://hardwoodbiofuels.org/event/clarksburg-field-tour/
- Author: Mark Lundy
The UC Davis Dry Bean Field Day will be Thursday, September 4th from 10AM-Noon at the Agronomy Field Headquarters in Davis (near Bee Biology, between the airport landing strip on the S and Hutchison Dr. on the N).
There will be a field tour of lima and common beans as well as some heirloom beans with potential for organic production.
Hope to see you there!