The University of California is seeking producers' and farm managers' help as they conduct a survey of weedy rice infestation and rice production practices in the state that may affect the weed's persistence and infestation levels.
As you know, weedy rice...
This season, University of California Cooperative Extension rice farm advisers were contacted by several growers and pest control advisers to inspect plants suspected to be weedy rice.
When the identification was difficult, farm advisers grew them in the greenhouse to determine...
California Gov. Jerry Brown has signed Assembly Bill 2348, also known as the "California Winter Rice Habitat Incentive Program."
Carried by Assemblymember Cecilia Aguiar-Curry (D-Winters), the legislation authorizes the California Department of Fish and Wildlife to contract with private landowners...
The California Rice Commission is seeking nominations to fill open seats on its board of directors.
The following seats are open by district:
• District 1 (Butte County) – 2 member; 3 alternate
• District 2 (Colusa County) – 2 member; 4...
In the past few years, the number of calls I have received about disease management has increased considerably. Most of them were about stem rot, a disease that seems prevalent in many areas of the Sacramento Valley.
Stem rot is...
The California Rice Commission recently recognized a handful of individuals during its Circle of Life Reception in Sacramento, which is an annual opportunity to tell the industry’s story to key audiences.
In a sushi-rolling competition that involved lawmakers, Assembly Republican...
The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, which operates California's Central Valley Project, updated water allocations originally made Feb. 20.
Agricultural water service contractors north of the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta will now receive an allocation of 20 percent, according to a...
California rice industry prepares for what may become annual armyworm infestations.
By Vicky Boyd
Editor
When Luis Espino, a University of California Cooperative Extension farm adviser, started seeing significant true armyworm populations in numerous rice fields in 2015, he thought it...
Breeders at the California Rice Experiment Station recently unveiled ROXY rice—a line of medium-grain resistant to oxyfluorfen herbicide—at their annual field day.
Three years into development, Rice Experiment Station director Dr. Kent McKenzie, who's leading the project, says he's pleased...
The University of California is once again this season conducting the UCCE Rice Yield Contest.
Much like the 2016 season, Cooperative Extension has divided the rice-producing area into quadrants to remove some of the variability among production areas.
Growers compete with their...
The Environmental Protection Agency as well as the California Department of Pesticide Registration have registered Butte herbicide for California water-seeded rice.
The herbicide is a premix of benzobicyclon, a mode of action, and halosulfuron-methyl, marketed as Sandea in California. The...
Growers get behind the camera to shoot videos and help educate the public about rice.
By Vicky Boyd
Editor
When third-generation rice producer Matthew Sligar went to the University of California, Santa Cruz, to study modern American literature, he had no...
Homer Lundberg, who with his three older brothers founded Lundberg Family Farms in Richvale, Calif., was honored at the recent California Rice Field Day for his decades of service to the rice industry and his community.
In presenting the 55th...
Sacramento, Calif.-based Farmers' Rice Cooperative named Rick Rhody as its new CEO. He replaces Kirk Messick, who had been serving as interim CEO since the departure of Frank Bragg III.
"“There are many challenges that FRC and the rice industry...
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