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Rice Strawlage Meeting

July 9, 2014
By Luis A Espino
Rice Straw - A New Method to Get Through a Drought Veterans Memorial Hall 525 West Sycamore Street Willows, CA Tuesday, July 29, 2014 9am - noon UC Cooperative Extension research has found that baling rice straw right behind the harvester greatly increases cattle's ability to utilize it.
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Warm May and June making rice develop faster

July 8, 2014
By Bruce A Linquist
We all know it has been a warm year. In fact, in 2014 the average daily temperature for May and June was 72.2 degrees (CIMIS-Colusa). This is 2.4 degrees warmer than the average of the last 20 years and 3.3 degrees warmer than the average of the last 5 years.
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Bird Habitat Program Continues and Expands

June 19, 2014
Author: Paul Spraycar, The Nature Conservancy BirdReturns is a new program from the Nature Conservancy (TNC), organized in cooperation with the California Rice Commission BirdReturns compensates growers to provide shorebird habitat manage your straw and maintain at least 2 of water for 2-8 weeks in...
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Midseason Nitrogen Fertilizer

June 19, 2014
By Randall G Mutters
The milestone signaling the beginning of the reproductive stage is panicle initiation (PI). At this moment, the cells at the shoot apex, which is just above soil, start transforming into the panicle; however, this primordial panicle is not visible yet.
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