WHERE & WHEN

Richvale: Tuesday, Jan. 20, 8:30 am, Evangelical Church, 5219 Church St., Richvale

Glenn: Tuesday, Jan. 20, 1:00 pm, Glenn Pheasant Hall, 1522 Highway 45, south of Glenn

Colusa: Friday, Jan. 23, 8:30 am, CIP Conference Room, 100 Sunrise Blvd., Colusa

Yuba City: Friday, Jan. 23, 1:00 pm, UCCE Office, 142 Garden Highway, Yuba City

TIME: Doors open at 8:00 am and meetings start at 8:30 am at Richvale and Colusa. Doors open at 1:00 pm and meetings start at 1:30 pm at Glenn and Yuba City.

Program

8:00 a.m.   (1:00 p.m.)   Doors open, sign-in, coffee

8:30 a.m.   (1:30 p.m.)   Call meeting to order

8:35 a.m.   (1:35 p.m.)   Rice Research Board Nominations – Dana Dickey, Rice Research Board

8:45 a.m.   (1:45 p.m.)   Rice Pesticide and Regulatory Update – County Ag Commissioner

9:00 a.m.   (2:00 p.m.)   Arthropod Management – Larry Godfrey, UC Davis

9:20 a.m.   (2:20 p.m.)   Nutrient Management in California Rice Systems – Bruce Linquist, UCCE

10:00 a.m. (3:00 p.m.)      — BREAK —

10:15 a.m. (3:15 p.m.)   Weed Management – Albert Fischer, UC Davis

10:45 a.m. (3:45 p.m.)   Irrigated Lands Program: Farm Evaluations – Roberta Firoved, CRC

11:15 a.m. (4:15 p.m.)   Water Outlook 2015 – TBA

11:30 a.m. (4:30 p.m.)   2015 Yield Contest – Bruce Linquist, UCCE

11:45 a.m. (4:45 p.m.)      — ADJOURN —

****Applied for DPR and CCA CE credits****

Save the date!

Richvale: Tuesday, Jan 20, 8:30 to 12:00. Evangelical Church, 5219 Church St., Richvale

Glenn: Tuesday, Jan 20, 1:00 to 4:30. Glenn Pheasant Hall, 1522 Highway 45, south of Glenn

Colusa: Friday, Jan 23, 8:30 to 12:00. CIP Conference Room, 100 Sunrise Blvd., Colusa

Yuba City: Friday, Jan 23, 1:00 to 4:30. UCCE Building, 142 Garden Highway, Yuba City

It is the time of the year when Department of Pesticide Regulation (DPR) licenses need to be renewed. I usually have enough continuing education hours to renew, but this year I fell short. A few days ago, I took the new "Pesticide Resistance" online course offered by UC IPM. It is a narrated presentation put together by people with lots of field experience. The course describes the mechanisms of resistance in pathogens, insects, and weeds and discusses ways to manage resistance. It is not specific to rice, but very applicable to the rice system.

The online course is divided into three narrated presentations followed by a final test for each section. This course has been approved for 2 continuing education units in the “Other” category from DPR.

This course is based on a series of workshops held in Davis, Fresno, and at the Kearney Agricultural Research and Extension Center during the spring of 2014 presented by Dr. Doug Gubler (Dept. of Plant Pathology, UC Davis.), Dr. Larry Godfrey (Dept. of Entomology and Nematology, UC Davis), Dr. Beth Grafton-Cardwell (Lindcove Research and Extension Center and UC Riverside), and Dr. Kassim All-Khatib (UC Statewide IPM Program).

Check out the new course at http://www.ipm.ucanr.edu/training/pesticide_resistance.html.

It has been demonstrated that baling rice straw immediately after harvest (called rice strawlage) greatly increases its nutritional value for livestock. Baling at 30 to 40 percent moisture can have the challenge of mold management. With the help of producers, the University of California has been researching rice strawlage during the last two years. Two tours will offer livestock and rice producers a chance to determine if rice strawlage would work in their operations.

Monday, December 15, 2014 12:00-3:30 PM: Tour and hosted lunch at the Parker Ranch in Williams and Sand Creek Ranch in Arbuckle.

Meet at the Shell gas station directly off of the Interstate 5 exit for Highway 20 (on the south west side of the off ramp) at 12:00 noon and we will head to the ranch from there. Discussion with Doug and Judy Parker will cover the multi big bale wrapper process which includes treatments of rice straw with molasses sprayed on at baling, anhydrous ammonia added after wrapping, Storage Mate (proprionic acid) and bacteria inoculants, both applied at baling. Forage quality data providing initial treatment differences will be presented. The tour will then go to Ron LaGrande's Sand Creek operation at Arbuckle to see rice strawlage that was professionally tarped and cattle currently consuming the fall harvest of strawlage. RSVP to Josh Davy at (530) 527-3101 to make sure that he cooks enough hamburgers.

Wednesday, December 17, 2014 9:00-11:00 AM: Tour of the research heifers on rice strawlage at the Sierra Foothill Research and Extension Center at 8279 Scott Forbes Road in Browns Valley.

Results from the first 5 week feeding phase showing animal performance and nutritional evaluation will be covered. The treatments include a control (Quadris only), Storage Mate (proprionic acid), bacteria inoculant and both proprionic acid and bacteria. The 600 pound heifers will be on their second feeding phase and producers can see the different kinds of rice strawlage being consumed. Some are currently consuming 20 pounds of strawlage per day. How to stack and tarp the strawlage will be covered.