SJC and Delta Field Crops

UC Cooperative Extension annually sponsors four rice grower meetings in the Sacramento Valley. This year, the meetings will be held on Tuesday, January 19th and Wednesday, January 20th. The schedule and locations are as follows: Richvale: Tuesday, Jan.

UC Cooperative Extension in San Joaquin County will host the SJC and Delta Field Crops Meeting on Friday, January 8, 2016 from 8:00am to 12:00pm. The meeting location is the Cabral Agricultural Center in Stockton (2101 E.Earhart Ave., Stockton, CA 95206).

Back in October, a Delta farmer presented me with this scenario: The California Division of Boating and Waterways would be clearing water hyacinth from some Delta waterways. They asked the grower to receive some of it onto his land.

It is the time of year when the harvest of our summer crops has concluded. Some growers may be planting small grains, and let us hope that winter rains nourish these crops. I received an inquiry from a grower at the end of harvest regarding nutrient removal with the harvest.

Wireworms are the soil-dwelling larvae of click beetles. They feed on the seeds and roots of various crops and are a particular pest of field corn in the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta region (Figure 1).