- Author: Mark Lundy
- Contributor: Nicholas Alexander George
- Contributor: Michael Rodriguez
- Contributor: Michelle Leinfelder-Miles
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The UC Grain Cropping Systems Lab and a cooperating network of UC Cooperative Extension agronomists established fall-planted small grain variety trials across the state of California from October to December 2017. These included: 10 locations with fall-planted common wheat (predominantly hard spring types) and triticale varieties; 5 locations with durum wheat varieties; 5 locations with barley varieties; and 2 locations with winter-type common wheat.
Precipitation has been below average and growing degree days (GDD) have been above average at the fall-planted trial locations during the first 6-8 weeks of growth. To see graphs of the...
- Author: Konrad Mathesius
- Contributor: Mark Lundy
After a dry beginning to the season, wheat growers might be trying to decide how to proceed with their nitrogen fertility program. If not irrigated, most wheat planted in the Sacramento Valley during November will likely have been stunted by the relatively dry conditions during the second half of November and throughout December (see Fig. 1, below). Some of the crops out there may need to be replanted entirely. If you're trying to work out how your stand is doing, consider some population sampling.
To get a rough estimate of your field's population, take several plant counts from random locations in the field. Lay a yard stick parallel to a row and count how many plants are still present in that row. Do this several times...
- Author: Mark Lundy
Registration for the 2018 California Plant and Soil Conference is open. The conference will be held from February 6th - February 7th at the Fresno Doubletree Hotel and Convention Center and will include a wide array of topics of interest to California Agriculture. More information can be found here and at the conference website:
We hope to see you there!
- Author: Mark Lundy
- Contributor: Gabe Rosa
- Contributor: Charlie Turner
- Contributor: Nicholas Alexander George
The beta version of an interactive webtool for California small grain variety selection is now available on the Small Grains portion of the UC Agronomy Research and Information Center Website:
http://smallgrains.ucanr.edu/Variety/
The tool is designed to help users pinpoint small grain varieties that have performed well in particular regions and environments of California using data from multi-year, multi-location field trials. The main features of the tool are a series of selection menus that interact with a map to give...
- Author: Mark Lundy
- Contributor: Nicholas Alexander George
- Contributor: Michael Rodriguez
- Contributor: Konrad Mathesius
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Results from the 2016-2017 Fall-planted small grain variety trials throughout California are now available. These include tests of commercial and advanced varieties of common wheat, durum wheat, triticale, and barley, with multi-year productivity, disease and agronomic traits summaries included as well as single-site summaries from all Fall-planted 2017 trials. Results are available on the UC Agronomy Research and Information Center (AgRIC) Small Grains website:
