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Rice Leaf Newsletter Issues
2025
April 2025
- Summary of the 2024 variety trials
- Arthropods: the usual suspects
- Chlorine seed treatments
- Late season control options for watergrass
- Emergency Commodity Assistance Program: long and medium grain rice qualify for relief
Februrary 2025
- Reducing fertilizer input costs
- Take the time to evaluate the level of stem rot
- Hedgerows in rice - Update
- R. O. U. S. - Rodents of Unusual Size
2024
November 2024
- Year in Review
- 2024 No-Till Update
- 2024 Heat Stress in Rice
- Weeds Update 2024
- Seed Production Update
- Delta Rice Recap
- Economic Needs Assessment of Agricultural Producers in Butte, Glenn, and Tehama Counties
July 2024
- Your Herbicide Program is Not Working Well: Now What?
- Monitoring Weather Conditions for Blast Development
- Bakanae Symptoms to Look For
- No-Till Drill-Seeded Rice Field Day Recap
June 2024
- Second Year Testing No-Till Drill Seeded Rice
- Pendimethalin Use in California Rice: Clarifications and Updates
- Tadpole Shrimp Issues in 2024
- Late Season Control Options for Watergrass
- San Joaquin Delta Cover Crop Variety Trial
- Be Wary of Relying on Chat GPT for Agricultural Questions
April 2024
- Imagine
- New Herbicides Bring Additional Tools to California Rice Weed Management in 2024
- An Evaluation of Pyraclonil in California Rice
- Don’t Forget About the Bugs!
January 2024
- 2023 UC Rice Varietry Trial Results
- Choose your Medium Grain Variety
- New Herbicide Registered in Califoria for 2024: Cliffhanger
- New Weed in California Rice: White Water Fire
- Management of Rice Seed Midge – Insecticide Trial Results
- Evaluating Losses Caused by Stem Rot
- New Rice Farming Systems Advisor for Colusa and Yolo Counties
- Survey: Challengers and Opportunities for Organic Rice
2023
November 2023
- Testing no-till drill-seeded rice
- 2023 Seed production report
- Weeds to watch out for: 2023 edition
- Diseases in 2023
- 2023 Delta recap
July 2023
- Testing no-till drill-seeded rice
- More rice seed midge during 2023
- Weeds in 2023: Wrap up
- What’s new in tadpole shrimp research?
- Meeting: Organic rice: current research and future needs
April 2023
- Considerations for a late planted year
- Yields and nitrogen management following a fallow year
- Certified seed update
- Stem rot management update
- Weed management in 2023: what can we expect?
- New product registrations for 2023
- Managing rice in a late planted year
January 2023
- Choosing a Medium Grain Variety
- Results of 2022 Variety Trials
- Rice Acreage by Variety Report
- Effect of Competition by Weedy Rice
- 2022 Disease Observations
- Insecticides for Armyworm Control
- Rice Regulatory Updates
2022
November 2022
- Looking Back at 2022
- High Nighttime Temperatures Partially to Blame for Increased Chalk and Decreased Milling
- 2022 Pest Review
- New Smart Insect Pest Detection Technology for Agricultural and Food Products
- Rice Crop Rotation Tool Launched
- 2022 Delta Rice Recap
July 2022
- Getting the Most out of Limited Water
- Herbicide Susceptibility Survey of Watergrass
- Germination of Stored Rice Seed
- Challenges and Opportunities for US Organic Rice
April 2022
- Fertility Considerations Going Into 2022
- Watergrass Control Options Based on Herbicide Resistance Status
- Managing Tadpole Shrimp
- Determining the Herbicide Resistance in Grower Fields is Key for Successful Weed Control in Rice
- Updates from the Rice Experiment Station
January 2022
- Summary of 2021 Rice Variety Trials
- Tadpole Shrimp Management: Moving Beyond Pyrethroids
- Watergrass Herbicide Screening: 2021 Results
- Herbicide Trial in Delta Drill Seeded Rice
2021
November 2021
- Managing rice straw when winter flood water is uncertain
- 2021 California Crop Improvement Rice Seed Report
- Weedy Rice Survey and Season Wrap Up
- Arthropod and Disease Update
July 2021
- 2021 Planting Overview
- Propanil 101
- Mid-season arthropod and disease update
- Weedy Rice Workshop: 2021
April 2021
- Fertility considerations going into 2021
- Factors affecting crop rotation for rice growers
- Weeds to watch out for in 2021
- Herbicide trial in Delta drill-seeded rice
- Tadpole shrimp: how resistant are they to pyrethroids?
January 2021
- Rice Variety Trials Results
- 2020 Seed Update – Red rice focus
- What’s New for Thiobencarb
- Preliminary Herbicide Screening in rice on Watergrass Species
2020
June 2020
- What do you get from an NDVI reading
- Effect of armyworm defoliation on rice yield
- New California rice herbicide: RebelEX
April 2020
- Rice variety trial results
- Fungicide treatment timings
- Potassium fertilizer needs
- Weeds to watch out for in 2020
- Herbicide trial in Delta drill-seeded rice
2019
August 2019
- Collecting Weed Seeds for Herbicide-Resistance Testing
- 2019 Armyworm Update
- Weedy Rice Scouting and Reporting
- Alligatorweed Spotted in Butte County
March 2019
- Summary of 2018 University of California Rice Variety Trials
- Tillage for weed management in a good water year
- Weedy Rice: 2018 season wrap-up and looking ahead for 2019