UC Rice Blog

Whitney Brim-DeForest, UCCE Rice Advisor We talk about herbicide resistance all of the time in California rice. But how does it evolve in a field? Understanding how herbicide management selects for resistant populations is an important part of preventing the problem from occuring in your fields.

Optimizing Insect Control and Grain Quality Wednesday, April 5, 2017 9:00AM - 3:00PM Lundberg Family Farms 5311 Midway Richvale, CA 95974 We would like to invite you to attend an exciting and informative workshop on insect pest management at rice mills and rice storage facilities.

During our Jan 2017 winter meetings, I conducted a short clicker survey about how bad tadpole shrimp (TPS) has become in the past few years. There were a couple of technical difficulties, and attendees to the Richvale meeting didn't get to see the answer to the questions.

The University of California Cooperative Extension annual rice meetings will be held this week. As usual, we will have four locations. However, note the change of venue for the Glenn and Colusa meetings this year.

In the past year, the California rice industry has begun to deal with a new pest: weedy rice, also known as red rice. Weedy rice is a common weed in rice-growing regions of the world, and when infestations are high, it can significantly reduce yields.