Rice Notes

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• Save the Dates!
• Seed Production Update
• White Water Fire Weed Morphology and Control in California Rice
• 2025 Delta Rice Recap
• Weed Rice  Survey Update
• Fall Update: Rice Field Research Projects in the Sacramento Valley

• Save the Dates!
• 2025 was a spread-out planting season for California rice
• Summary of the California Rice Commission Report: A Conservation Footprint for California Rice
• 2025 Pest Issues Update
• Drill seeding: How deep is too deep?
• Can we do better? An attempt to improve scouting for tadpole shrimp using a novel sampler
• Weed Updates 2025

• Save the Dates!
• Summary of the 2024 Variety Trails
• Chlorine Seed Treatments
• Emergency Commodity Assistance Program: Long and Medium Grain Rice Qualify for Relief
• The Usual Suspects
• Late Season Control Options for Watergrass-2025 Updates

• Save the Dates!
• Hedgerows in Rice Update
• R.O.U.S. - Rodents of Unusual Size
• Reducing fertilizer input costs
• Take the time to evaluate the level of stem rot

• Pesticides and The Endangered Species Act
• Seed Production Update2024 Year in Review
• 2024 Heat Stress in Rice
• Economic Needs Assessments
• No-Till Update
• • 2024 Delta Rice Recap
• Weed Updates 2024
• Podcast

• Your Herbicide Program is Not Working Well: Now What?
• No-Till Rice Field Day
• Monitoring Weather Conditions Favorable to Blast Development
• Bakanae Symptoms Beginning to Appear

• Save the Dates!
• Cover Crop Variety Trial
• Pendimethalin Use in California Rice: Clarifications and Updates
• Our Second-Year Testing No-Till Drill Seeded Rice
• Be Wary of Relying on Chat GPT for Agricultural Questions
• Tadpole Shrimp Issues in 2024
• Late Season Control Options for Watergrass
• No-Till Rice Field Day Agenda

• Save the Dates!
• New Herbicides Bring Additional Tools to California Rice Weed Management in 2024
• Don’t forget about the bugs!
• An Evaluation of Pyraclonil in California Rice
• Imagine
• Herbicide Susceptibility Chart

• Rice Herbicide Seminars
• Meet our New Advisor
• A Solid Choice of Medium Grain Varieties to Choose from to Adapt to your Condition
• New Weed in California Rice: White Water Fire (Bergia capensis)
• New Herbicide Registered in California Rice for 2024: Cliffhanger™
• Summary of 2023 University of California Rice Variety Trails
• Evaluating Losses Caused by Stem Rot
• Management of rice seed midge – insecticide trial results

• Save the Dates
• 2023 Delta Rice Recap
• 2023 Seed production Report
• Testing No-Till Drill-Seeded Rice
• Disease in 2023
• Weeds of Interest: 2023 Edition

• Organic Rice Meeting
• 2023 Results – Rice Pesticide Program
• More Rice Seed Midge During 2023
• Testing no-till drill- seeded rice
• What’s new in tadpole shrimp research?
• Weeds in 2023: Wrap Up
• New UC Rice Website!

• Managing Rice in a Late Planted Year
• Some considerations for a late planted year
• Meet the Rice Farming Systems Advisor
• Stem Rot Management Update
• Yields and nitrogen management following a fallow year
• Weed Management in 2023: what can we expect?
• New product registrations for 2023
• Certified Seed Update

• Rice Industry Loses Longtime Colleague
• Rice Production Workshop
• Effects of competition from CA weedy rice biotypes on a cultivated rice variety
• 2022 UC Rice Variety Trials
• 2022 Disease Observations
• Insecticides for Armyworm Control
• Summary of trials conducted between 2018-21
• Choosing a medium grain variety
• 2021-2022 California Rice Acres by Variety
• Rice Regulatory Updates

•  Rice Crop Rotation Tool
• Looking back at 2022
• High Nighttime Temperatures Partially to Blame for Increased Chalk and Decreased Milling
• New smart insect pest detection technology for agricultural and food products
• 2022 Pest Review
• 2022 Delta Rice Recap

• 2022 Rice Field Day!
• Challenges and Opportunities for US Organic Rice
• Herbicide Susceptibility Survey of Watergrass (Echinochloa spp.) in California Rice
• Germination of stored seed
• Weedy Rice Scouting and Reporting 2022

• Fertility consideration going into 2022
• Managing tadpole shrimp
• Watergrass Control Options Based on Herbicide Resistance Status
• Determining the Herbicide-Resistance in Grower Fields is a Key for Successful Weed Control in Rice
• California Cooperative Rice Research Foundation Retools Rice Experiment Station for 2022

• IPM Rice Workgroup Meeting
• Rice Grower Meetings – New Dates!
• Summary of 2021 UC Variety Rice Trials
• Tadpole shrimp management: Moving beyond pyrethroids
• Watergrass Herbicide Screening: 2021 Results
• Herbicide Trial in Delta Drill- Seeded Rice – 2021

• Save the Date: 2022 Annual Grower Meetings
• Weedy Rice: Survey and Season Wrap-up
• Managing rice straw when winter flood water is uncertain
• 2021 Rice Seed Report
• 2021 Delta Rice Recap
• Arthropod and Disease Update
• IPM Work Group Membership

• Weedy Rice Workshop
• Mid-season arthropod and disease update
• 2021 Season Update
• Propanil 101: Do’s and Don’ts
• Annual California Rice Field Day

• Weeds to Watch Out for in 2021
• Fertility considerations going into 2021
• Looking for M- 210 fields in Glenn and Butte Counties
• Factors affecting crop rotation for rice growers
• Herbicide Trial in Delta Drill- Seeded Rice
• Tadpole shrimp: How resistant are they to pyrethroids? We are looking for fields.
• Managing Rice with Limited Water

• Preliminary Herbicide Screening in Watergrass
• Rice Variety Trials
• 2020 Rice Update
• Thiobencarb
• Pesticide Water Management

• New California Rice Herbicide Available in 2020: RebelEX®
• Effect of armyworm defoliation on rice yield
• What do you get from an NDVI reading

• UCCE Working Remotely
• Summary of 2019 University of California Rice Variety Trials
• Weeds to watch out for in 2020
• Fungicide Treatment Timings for Control of Rice Diseases
• Think about your potassium fertilizer needs
• Herbicide Trial in Delta Drill Seeded Rice

• 2020 Annual Rice Grower Meetings
• Genetics and possible origins of weedy rice