- Author: Mark E Lundy
We're off to a good start to the rainfall year! As farmers begin to turn attention to fall-planted small grains, be sure to check out UC's extension resources on the UC Small Grains Research and Information Center and the associated UC Small Grains Blog. Resources include the following:
The California Weather Web-Tool provides site-specific precipitation and temperature data for customizable date ranges and includes 10-year averages and a 10-day forecast. Read...
- Author: Mark E Lundy
- Author: Taylor Nelsen
- Author: Nicholas Clark
- Author: Michelle Leinfelder-Miles
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UC Davis and UC Cooperative Extension are excited to share newly developed tools that optimize nitrogen (N) fertilizer management in wheat and other small grains. The new tools and case studies illustrating how they've been applied in commercial settings will be discussed at an upcoming webinar on 11/4/2021 from 2-4 PM (2 INMP/CURES CEU credits available for those who REGISTER).
These tools are the product of many years of UC research and include an interactive website that provides customized, site-specific nitrogen fertilizer recommendations. Recommendations are based on monitoring of crop health and...
- Author: Taylor Nelsen
- Author: Salvador Grover
- Author: Mark E Lundy
- Contributor: Leonardo Reynoso
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Results for the 2020-2021 fall planted UC Small Grain Variety Trials are now available at:
http://smallgrains.ucanr.edu/Variety_Selection/
Results can be viewed within an interactive environment that summarizes small grain varieties by crop type across multiple locations and season:
http://smallgrainselection.plantsciences.ucdavis.edu/
as well as an interactive environments that enables the exploration of data by individual site year:
- Author: Taylor Nelsen
- Author: Mark E Lundy
- Author: Salvador Grover
- Contributor: Leonardo Reynoso
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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.edu/Annual_Variety_Results/Preliminary_2021_Yield_Results/
The results are preliminary and may change as samples are cleaned, processed for quality and corrected for variations in moisture content. Final results that...
- Author: Jose Luiz Carvalho de Souza Dias
- Author: Nicholas Clark
- Author: Konrad Mathesius
- Author: Sarah Light
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Common chickweed (Stellaria media) (Figure 1) is a winter annual found throughout California and considered to be one of the most common broadleaf weeds infesting cereal crops (also referred as small grains) in the state (Wilen 2006). Herbicides can provide effective control of chickweed; however, overreliance on a single herbicide (or group of herbicides with the same site of action), is likely to result in resistance to that herbicide (or group of herbicides) (Tranel and Wright 2017). Even though herbicide-resistant common chickweed populations have not been confirmed in California, lack of effective control with post-emergence applications of the ALS-inhibiting herbicides pyroxsulam (Simplicity) and tribenuron (Express...