What to plant is always one of the most important decisions of the rice season. For 2022, every decision will be met with increased scrutiny given the overall rise in production costs.
The first question is do you need a...
The California Department of Water Resources conducted the first snow survey of the season at Phillips Station near Echo Summit Dec. 30. Early winter storms in December provided a strong start to the season and some relief, but California...
The California Department of Water Resources plans to make no regular water deliveries from the State Water Project for 2022. In its Dec. 1 announcement, the state said it would only release water needed for health and safety uses.
It...
In the 1970s, the British comedic group, Monty Python’s Flying Circus, used to perform the “Ministry of Silly Walks” sketch where John Cleese strutted around in a satirical portrayal of bureaucratic inefficiency.
When the California Department of Pesticide Regulation recently...
• By Kevin Hecteman •
The road to higher food prices begins at the diesel pump and winds through the auto-parts store, the fertilizer-supply company and even the hangar at the local airfield. By the time that road reaches the...
• By Bruce Linquist •
In most years, California rice farmers manage their winter straw by flooding a field where the rice straw has either been chopped or chopped and incorporated. In these cases, the flood water helps to ensure...
• By Ching Lee •
Favorable weather conditions and fewer acres of planted rice this year should allow California farmers to remove their crop without worries of autumn rainfall complicating harvest.
All eyes are now on how much precipitation the coming...
• By Vicky Boyd,
Editor •
The California Cooperative Rice Research Foundation has tapped Dr. Dustin Harrell as its new director of the Rice Experiment Station near Biggs, California.
“We couldn’t be more excited,” said Glenn rice grower and foundation chairman Gary...
• By Vicky Boyd,
Editor •
The California Rice Research Foundation recently honored Dr. Kent McKenzie with its annual California Rice Industry Award for his 32 years of service to the state's rice producers.
In making the presentation, foundation board member Aaron...
The in-person one-day Rice Pest Management Course course will be held Sept. 10 at the Hamilton Road Field near Biggs, California. It's located on West Hamilton Road between Highway 99 and Riceton Highway. It is hosted by the University...
• By Bruce Linquist •
Driving this week, I saw quite a few fields with heads starting to show up, so drain time is around the corner. Earlier than normal planting and a warm early season means that the crop...
• By Christine Souza •
With very little water to spare this drought year, water districts struggling with limited or no supplies look to their counterparts in other districts to negotiate water transfers to add whatever flexibility they can.
Districts on...
University of California scientists have discovered genetic data that will help food crops like tomatoes and rice survive longer, more intense periods of drought on our warming planet.
Over the past decade, the research team sought to create a molecular...
• By Ching Lee •
Dry weather this spring has created ideal planting conditions for California rice farmers, but lack of available irrigation water has forced cutbacks to how much they can grow.
Unhindered by spring rains and soggy fields that...
• By Whitney Brim-DeForest and Tim Johnson •
The absence of a registered herbicide to control weedy rice in California leaves growers with fewer options to control this important pest. Planting clean seed, as required by the Certification Act, is...
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