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UC Cooperative Extension annually sponsors four rice grower meetings in the Sacramento Valley. This year, the meetings will be held on Tuesday, January 19th and Wednesday, January 20th. The schedule and locations are as follows: Richvale: Tuesday, Jan.

If you like to see lady beetles devouring aphids or assassin bugs piercing spotted cucumber beetles, then you'll love the workshop taking place Saturday, April 11 in rural Zamora, Yolo County. That's not to say you'll see beneficial insects doing their thingbut you might.

By California Rice Commission http://www.calricenews.org/2015/03/11/water-allocations-challenged-by-another-disappointing-winter/ We are in regular contact with the Northern California Water Association and area water managers to assess likely impacts from year four of the drought.

What's stressing our honey bees and how are they impacted? You'll learn more about honey bees if you attend the Crop Pollination Workshop next month.

WHERE & WHEN Richvale: Tuesday, Jan. 20, 8:30 am, Evangelical Church, 5219 Church St., Richvale Glenn: Tuesday, Jan. 20, 1:00 pm, Glenn Pheasant Hall, 1522 Highway 45, south of Glenn Colusa: Friday, Jan. 23, 8:30 am, CIP Conference Room, 100 Sunrise Blvd., Colusa Yuba City: Friday, Jan.

Save the date! Richvale: Tuesday, Jan 20, 8:30 to 12:00. Evangelical Church, 5219 Church St., Richvale Glenn: Tuesday, Jan 20, 1:00 to 4:30. Glenn Pheasant Hall, 1522 Highway 45, south of Glenn Colusa: Friday, Jan 23, 8:30 to 12:00. CIP Conference Room, 100 Sunrise Blvd.

In the past few weeks I received several calls asking a version of the following question: how are stand, tillering and panicle size related to yield? A way to understand how these things interact is by discussing rice yield components and the factors that affect them.

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.

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...

Here's more on Mark Lundy... A new year and a new farm advisor in Colusa-Sutter-Yuba Hello, Im Mark Lundy, a new Agronomy Advisor in Colusa-Sutter-Yuba, based out of the Colusa office.