SJC and Delta Field Crops

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UCCE Field Corn Variety Trial - No Meeting in 2020

September 14, 2020
By Michelle M Leinfelder-Miles
As the Covid-19 pandemic persists, and as government and University recommendations maintain that we should limit social gatherings, I have come to the conclusion NOT to hold the annual Delta field meeting at the corn variety trial this year.
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Figure 3. Bean plant with poor pod set. The arrows indicate where flowers did not set pods. The pictured, opened pod shows no lygus stings, suggesting that heat (and not lygus) caused poor pod set at this field.
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Lima Bean Heat Stress

September 3, 2020
By Michelle M Leinfelder-Miles, Rachael Long
Last week, I visited a baby lima field in the southwest part of San Joaquin County that had overall poor pod set. Pods were filling lower in the canopy, but flowers had not set higher on the plants.
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Rice Virtual Field Day

August 5, 2020
By Michelle M Leinfelder-Miles
UCANR California Rice Virtual Field Day When: August 26, 2020, 1:00-3:00 PM Where: Online Zoom Webinar Host: Whitney Brim DeForest, UC ANR County Director, Sutter-Yuba Counties and CE Rice and Wild Rice Advisor Registration: $20.
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