- Author: Konrad Mathesius
- Author: Taylor Nelsen
- Author: Mark Lundy
California's craft brewing industry is continuing to expand its market presence in the state. However, only a small percentage of malting barley used in California is grown within its borders. The primary bottleneck in the supply is the lack of malting facilities. Currently California is malting roughly 900 tons annually, the majority of which is done by one malt house in Alameda, with some of the barley grown in northern California shipped out of state for malting. The industry has grown somewhat in the last few years with the addition of several small malting facilities. For comparative purposes, California produces 3.7 million barrels of craft beer annually, the equivalent of around 120,000 tons of barley.
California...
- Author: Taylor Nelsen
- Author: Mark Lundy
- Contributor: Rafael (Merf) Solorio
- Contributor: Ethan McCullough
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Results for the 2019-2020 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 Lundy
- Contributor: Rafael (Merf) Solorio
- Contributor: Ethan McCullough
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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_2020_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 include disease and...
- Author: Nicholas Clark
- Author: Thomas Getts
- Author: Giuliano C. Galdi
- Author: Taylor Nelsen
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This is the third post in a blog series focused on improving nitrogen (N) use efficiency in California small grains. This post discusses two hand-held devices that indicate plant N levels in small grains to help optimize fertilizer decisions. The tools help determine plant vigor by measuring light reflected from the whole plant canopy or absorbed by a single leaf. Comparing measurements made in and immediately outside of N rich zones in representative areas of the field helps determine if the crop is likely to respond to more N fertilizer. The plant N levels indicated by the hand-held devices complement other important information, which are...
- Author: Michelle Leinfelder-Miles
- Author: Nick Clark
- Author: Sarah Light
- Author: Konrad Mathesius
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This is our second in a series of blog posts on improving nitrogen (N) use efficiency in California small grains. This post focuses on the use of N-rich reference zones to assess in-season N status and make management decisions based on crop need. Our goal is to help growers and consultants learn how to use N-rich zones to improve small grain N fertilizer use efficiency and reduce negative environmental outcomes. To demonstrate what we know about this practice across the small grain growing regions of the state, our team has helped growers establish N-rich zones in their fields across a wide range of soil and climatic conditions. These demonstration sites are in the Sacramento Valley, Delta Region, San Joaquin Valley, and the...
