2026 UCCE Rice Winter Grower Meeting - Willows

Program  

1:00 pm Doors open, sign-in, coffee 

1:30 pm Rice Research Board Nominations – Lacey Stogsdill, Rice Research Board Rice Research Trust Membership – Steve Willey 

1:40 pm County Agricultural Commissioner Updates 

2:00 pm Drones in rice for pesticide application, Dustin Harrell, Rice Experiment Station Director, and Kassim Al-Khatib, UC Davis 

2:20 pm Variety Update, Dustin Harrell, Rice Experiment Station Director 

2:35 pm Invasive pests update, Sarah Marsh Janish, UCCE 

2:45 pm BREAK 

3:00 pm Fertility Update, Bruce Linquist, UC Davis 

3:15 pm Emerging Weeds, Whitney Brim-DeForest, UCCE 

3:30 pm Invertebrate Management Update, Ian Grettenberger, UC Davis 

3:45 pm Disease Management Update, Luis Espino, UCCE 

4:00 pm Weed Management Update, Kassim Al-Khatib, UC Davis 

4:15 pm ADJOURN

 ****Applied for DPR and CCA CE credits****