UC Rice Blog

On October 12, the National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) released its rice crop production estimate. California's estimate was adjusted down from the September estimate; from 8,400 lbs to 8,300 lbs/a.

A new weed has been identified in California rice. Its name is winged primrose willow (WPW), and it is a weed in rice fields in the southern US. So far this weed has been identified only in fields near Richvale.

Almost two weeks ago the California Rice Experiment Station (RES) had its annual field day. It was a great opportunity to see fist-hand the research going on at the station.

I visited a field a few weeks ago in the Woodland area. Older leaves showed discolored tips and margins, and necrotic spots. Leaf tips eventually turned brown and die. The grower was worried it might have been blast, because of some of the lesions were elliptical and resembled blast lesions.

Released August 29, 2011, by the National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS), Agricultural Statistics Board, United States Department of Agriculture (USDA).