- Author: Konrad Mathesius
![N-rich reference zones](https://ucanr.edu/blogs/smallgrains/blogfiles/96511small.jpg)
Although much of this year's wheat has been planted, the cost of fertilizer and an unpredictable rainy season mean it's never a bad time to learn more about how to improve nitrogen management in small grains.
Join us for nitrogen management seminars being offered in the northern San Joaquin and the southern Sacramento Valleys. The seminars will cover a range of topics related to the use of the Nitrogen Fertilizer Management Tool for California Wheat. Lunch will be provided.
Over the years UC agronomists have had considerable success using the Webtool and working with growers to
- Author: Richard Smith
- Author: Eric Brennan
- Author: Mark E Lundy
![Images of Merced rye at various stages of anthesis.](https://ucanr.edu/blogs/smallgrains/blogfiles/95810small.jpg)
Cereal rye, triticale and oats are commonly used as cover crops in the Salinas Valley in fall grown (Aug/Sept to Oct/Nov) and overwintered (Oct/Nov to Feb/March) planting slots. A key issue for growers is when to terminate the cover crop. This boils down to availability of equipment or breaks in the weather. Those types of issues are unavoidable and usually take precedence in decision making. In this article, we describe the various stages of cover crop seed development so that growers can let their cereal cover crop grow as long as possible without the risk of it producing seed that would become a weed in subsequent vegetable crops. This will allow the carbon to nitrogen (C:N) ratio to increase as high as possible to maximize the input...
- Author: Konrad Mathesius
![Nitrogen Reference Plots in Yolo County January of 2021](https://ucanr.edu/blogs/smallgrains/blogfiles/95516small.jpg)
This year, nitrogen is expensive and wheat is worth a lot of money. Now is a good time to optimize your N fertilizer management strategies.
Join us for any one of a series of workshops focusing on the use and application of the UC Small Grains Nitrogen Fertilizer Management Webtool in tandem with a N-rich reference zone and soil nitrate quick test information. The seminars are geared toward CCAs, soil labs, and other industry crop...
- Author: Micah Levinson
- Author: Taylor Nelsen
- Author: Joshua Hegarty
- Author: Santiago Tamagno
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![2022 UC Variety Trial (Fresno Location)](https://ucanr.edu/blogs/smallgrains/blogfiles/95283small.jpg)
Results for the 2021-2022 fall-planted UC Small Grain Variety Trials are now available at:
http://smallgrains.ucanr.edu/Variety_Selection/
Due to changing trends in California small grain production, there is a growing need for information on variety-specific forage biomass productivity. As a result, during the 2021-22 season, we measured forage yields for wheat, triticale, barley and oats at two of our trial locations, in addition to our continuing grain assessments. Both boot-stage and soft-dough stage forage yields were measured, and the resulting summaries are included in the 2022 results under the 'Fall Planted Forage Yield'...
- Author: Micah Levinson
- Author: Taylor Nelsen
- Author: Joshua Hegarty
- Author: Mark E Lundy
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![field trial at sunset](https://ucanr.edu/blogs/smallgrains/blogfiles/94290small.jpg)
Preliminary grain and forage 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: