2026 UCCE Rice Winter Grower Meeting - Richvale

Program  

8:00 am Doors open, sign-in, coffee 

8:30 am Rice Research Board Nominations – Lacey Stogsdill, Rice Research Board Rice Research Trust Membership – Steve Willey 

8:40 am County Agricultural Commissioner Updates 

9:00 am Drones in rice for pesticide application, Dustin Harrell, Rice Experiment Station Director, and Kassim Al-Khatib, UC Davis 

9:20 am Variety Update, Dustin Harrell, Rice Experiment Station Director 

9:35 am Invasive pests update, Sarah Marsh Janish, UCCE 

9:45 am BREAK 

10:00 am Fertility Update, Bruce Linquist, UC Davis 

10:15 am Emerging Weeds, Whitney Brim-DeForest, UCCE 

10:30 am Invertebrate Management Update, Ian Grettenberger, UC Davis 

10:45 am Disease Management Update, Luis Espino, UCCE 

11:00 am Weed Management Update, Kassim Al-Khatib, UC Davis 

11:15 am ADJOURN

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