After a relatively dry start to the rainfall season from October through early November, rainfall in California since November has been above average. About halfway through the rainy season, year-to-date precipitation totals are approximately 20-30% greater than the 10-year average in the small grain growing regions of California (Figure 1).

 Growing degree days (GDD: 86F max; 45F min) for common wheat and other small grains have been accumulating more rapidly than the 10-year average since the middle of November (Figure 2), which has been primarily a function of warmer than average night-time temperatures (Figure 3).

 The UC Small Grain Testing Program established small grain variety...

UC Cooperative Extension will host the SJC and Delta Field Crops Meeting on Thursday, January 17, 2019 from 8:00am to 12:00pm. The meeting location is the Cabral Agricultural Center in Stockton (2101 E. Earhart Ave., Stockton, CA 95206). The meeting will include presentations on small grains and corn. Coffee and light refreshments will be provided.

The agenda is attached at the bottom of this post, and is as follows:

8:00am     Doors Open and Sign In

8:15am     Nitrogen Stabilizers in Silage Corn, Michelle Leinfelder-Miles, UCCE San Joaquin/Delta Counties

8:45am     Measuring the Interaction between N Demand and Water Use in...

Results from all fall-planted 2017-2018 UC Statewide Small Grain Variety Testing Program trials are now available on the UC Small Grains website: http://smallgrains.ucanr.edu/Variety/.

These include fall-planted common wheat, durum wheat, triticale and barley trials in Sacramento Valley, San Joaquin Valley and Imperial Valley locations, and fall-planted winter wheat trials in the Intermountain Region. Results can be accessed as multi-year, multi-site summaries or site-specific summaries on...

The most up-to-date results from the 2017-18 UC Small Grain Variety Testing Program trials as well as trials from previous seasons can be found at the UC Agronomy Research and Information Center Small Grains websites. There are two interactive sites now available to explore UC small grain trial data.

The first site (http://smallgrainselection.plantsciences.ucdavis.edu/) produces regional summaries based on 3 years of trial data using statistical techniques that account for incomplete/unbalanced data across multi-season/multi-location trials. These multi-environment summaries are what we recommend using for...