Posts Tagged: rice

New Herbicide Registered in California Rice for 2024: Cliffhanger™

California rice growers will have a new herbicide available this year: Cliffhanger™, manufactured by Gowan Company. The active ingredient is benzobicyclon, which is the same as one of the two active ingredients in the currently registered...

New weed in California rice: White Water Fire (Bergia capensis)

Background White water fire (Bergia capensis) was found in September of 2023, by the Butte County Agricultural Commissioner's office in a rice field in Butte County. The weed was identified by the California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA.) It...

Meet our New Rice Farming Systems Advisor, Sarah Marsh

My name is Sarah Marsh, and I am excited to join UC Cooperative Extension as the new Rice Farming Systems Advisor serving Colusa and Yolo counties. I will be based out of Colusa at the Colusa UCCE office. I grew up on a diversified row-crop and orchard...

Zembu™: A New Residual Herbicide for Early-Season Weed Control in Water-Seeded Rice

A new herbicide for early-season weed control in water-seeded rice will be available soon. The herbicide active ingredient (a.i.) is pyraclonil, which will be trademarked as Zembu™ (1.8% a.i.) by Nichino, America Inc. The mode of action is a protox...

Research: How Soapberry Bugs 'Evolved in Unexpected Ways' Due to Hurricane Harvey

The seed-feeding, red-shouldered soapberry bugs “evolved in unexpected ways” when the catastrophic Hurricane Harvey hit Houston in August of 2017, according to a group of researchers, including evolutionary biologist Scott Carroll of the UC...

Soapberry bugs flying and flightless morphs together on balloon vine. (Photo by Scott Carroll)

Soapberry bugs flying and flightless morphs together on balloon vine. (Photo by Scott Carroll)

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