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2018 Annual Rice Grower Meetings Sponsored by UC Cooperative Extension -------------- 5 Locations -------------- WHERE & WHEN Woodland: Tuesday, Jan. 16, 1:30 pm, Cracchiolo's Market, 1320 E. Main St., Woodland Richvale: Wednesday, Jan. 17, 8:30 am, Evangelical Church, 5219 Church St.

Happy New Year! Hopefully the holidays were a time to rest and revive. We now enter "meeting season".

Does Your Lawn Need Water? Adjust your sprinklers (or turn them off) for the changing weather. Let the rain do the work! Don't pay for what you don't need. Recently, I've seen people watering their lawns. Not just irrigating but letting the water run into the gutter.

I have only received one weed-related farm call in my two seasons as the vegetable crop advisor in Colusa, Sutter and Yuba counties. In early August 2017, one of the melon PCAs I work with called me up to tell me about a grassy weed in a fresh-market honeydew field.

A quick post today to share a link to the recently revised "UC IPM Pest Management Guidelines for Walnut" (UC ANR Publication #3471).

Here are a few articles, written by UC Cooperative Extension colleagues, that may be of interest to readers of this blog: From the UC Rice Blog: Armyworm vs.

I was evaluating armyworm injury in plots and noticed there was quite a bit of panicle blanking not caused by armyworms. When armyworms injury panicles, they feed on the rachis of panicle branches, causing those branches to dry out.

A sign at the California State Fair's Insect Pavilion, aka "Bug Barn," screams "Bugs, Stay Back!" A middle-aged woman takes the sign literally. "What would you do if you saw THAT bug in our backyard?" she asks her daughter, about six years old. "Yecch!" responds the daughter.

1. Register for the Weedy Rice Workshop UC Cooperative Extension and the California Rice Commission are sponsoring this workshop to update growers and consultants on the current weedy rice situation in California and on research that is being conducted by the University of California.

Weedy Rice Workshops 2017 August 9, 2017 :: 9:00 AM-12:00 noon New Earth Market Harvest Room 1475 Tharp Road, Yuba City, CA August 10, 2017 :: 9:00 AM-12:00 noon Colusa Casino 3770 Hwy 45, Colusa, CA In the workshops, University of California Cooperative Extension (UCCE) will give updates on the cur...