- Author: Mark E Lundy
- Author: Micah Levinson
- Contributor: Karla Estrada
- Contributor: Joshua Hegarty
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Preliminary grain and forage 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:
https://smallgrains.ucdavis.edu/Annual_Variety_Results/2023
The results are preliminary and may change as samples and data are analyzed further. Final/complete results will be available in 6 to 8 weeks.
We appreciate the contributions of collaborators who helped make this year's trial possible!
- Author: Mark E Lundy
2023 UC Davis Small Grains and Alfalfa/Forages Field Day
May 11th, 7:30 a.m. – 3:30 p.m.
Supported by the California Crop Improvement Association (CCIA)
Department of Plant Sciences Field Facility, UC Davis
(2400 Hutchison Dr, Davis CA 38.5390, -121.7800)
- Author: Mark E Lundy
Please join us for upcoming field events hosted by University of California Cooperative Extension:
Nutrient Management Alternatives in Small Grains: Research Updates
4/18/2023 from 8:40 to 10:30
On-farm in Solano County
Click here for details and to register
UC Small Grains and Alfalfa/Forages Field Day
- Author: Richard Smith
- Author: Eric Brennan
- Author: Mark E Lundy
Cereal rye, triticale and oats are commonly used as cover crops in the Salinas Valley in fall grown (Aug/Sept to Oct/Nov) and overwintered (Oct/Nov to Feb/March) planting slots. A key issue for growers is when to terminate the cover crop. This boils down to availability of equipment or breaks in the weather. Those types of issues are unavoidable and usually take precedence in decision making. In this article, we describe the various stages of cover crop seed development so that growers can let their cereal cover crop grow as long as possible without the risk of it producing seed that would become a weed in subsequent vegetable crops. This will allow the carbon to nitrogen (C:N) ratio to increase as high as possible to maximize the input...
- Author: Micah Levinson
- Author: Taylor Nelsen
- Author: Joshua Hegarty
- Author: Santiago Tamagno
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Results for the 2021-2022 fall-planted UC Small Grain Variety Trials are now available at:
http://smallgrains.ucanr.edu/Variety_Selection/
Due to changing trends in California small grain production, there is a growing need for information on variety-specific forage biomass productivity. As a result, during the 2021-22 season, we measured forage yields for wheat, triticale, barley and oats at two of our trial locations, in addition to our continuing grain assessments. Both boot-stage and soft-dough stage forage yields were measured, and the resulting summaries are included in the 2022 results under the 'Fall Planted Forage Yield'...
