- Author: Mark Lundy
- Author: Nicholas Clark
- Author: Konrad Mathesius
- Contributor: Nicholas Alexander George
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With the wet weather that has already marked this growing season and more rain in the forecast for parts of California, we have been keeping a close eye on disease symptoms. While we do not yet have definite conclusions to all of the symptomology we've observed, we believe it may be of interest and utility to share some of the disease notes and photos we've collected to date. We are grateful to the new UCCE Specialist in Plant Pathology, Dr. Cassandra Swett, who has been helping us to make sense of some of what we're been seeing in the field. Included below are some general notes followed by some more specific notes from Agronomy Advisors Nicholas Clark (San Joaquin...
- Author: Mark Lundy
- Author: Steve Orloff
- Author: Nicholas Clark
- Contributor: Robert B Hutmacher
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We have received several recent inquiries following on our blog post from late January that discussed the potential value of a nitrogen (N) topdress at the tillering-to-jointing stages of wheat growth. This is particularly an issue with the higher than average precipitation we have experienced in California this year. The current question is whether a topdress of N might still be beneficial to wheat crops that are in the late-boot to early-heading stages of growth. Although fall-planted wheat...
- Author: Mark Lundy
We need your help to better understand the current status of small grain production in California and how to focus our research and extension efforts moving forward.
If you are involved in the California grain industry, we would appreciate your participation in the survey at this link:
https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/UC_SmallgrainsSurvey
The survey is designed to take less than 10 minutes. We would also greatly appreciate your sharing the survey link or a link to this blog post with pertinent individuals in your networks.
Thanks, in advance, for your participation!
- Author: Konrad Mathesius
Rotational Crop Grower Meeting
Thursday, February 9, 2017, 8 a.m. - Noon
Norton Hall, 70 Cottonwood Street, Woodland
- Author: Mark Lundy
- Author: Steve Orloff
- Contributor: Steven D Wright
- Contributor: Robert B Hutmacher
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Over the past 4+ seasons, a UCCE team (Lundy, Orloff, Wright and Hutmacher) has revisited nitrogen (N) fertilization recommendations for hard spring wheat specific to California conditions. We have grown wheat under a wide range of conditions and soil types, while varying the timing and quantity of N fertilizer to create conditions of N deficiency and sufficiency at the various times in the season when a grower might consider a N topdress.
Image 1. Hard spring wheat (UC Patwin 515) grown in the 2014-15 season in Davis where N fertilizer (urea) was/was not broadcast-applied near the beginning of...
