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2014 Rice Grower Meetings - Program

January 9, 2014
By Luis A Espino
2014 Annual Rice Grower Meetings Sponsored by UC Cooperative Extension -------------- 4 Locations -------------- WHERE & WHEN Richvale: Monday, Jan. 27, 8:00 am, Evangelical Church, 5219 Church St., Richvale Glenn: Monday, Jan.
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2014 Rice Grower Meetings

January 2, 2014
By Luis A Espino
Save the date! Richvale: Monday, Jan. 27, 8:00 am, Evangelical Church, 5219 Church St., Richvale Glenn: Monday, Jan. 27, 1:00 pm, Glenn Pheasant Hall, 1522 Highway 45, south of Glenn Colusa: Friday, Jan. 31, 8:00 am, CIP Conference Room, 100 Sunrise Blvd., Colusa Yuba City: Friday, Jan.
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Medusahead and Milestone work continues

November 4, 2013
After making a bunch of extension presentations, and following our 2012 publication of Preemergent control of medusahead on California annual rangelands with aminopyralid (Rangeland Ecology & Management 65:418-425), Ive talked with quite a few ranchers who have successfully used Milestone preemergen...
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FOUND: Japanese millet

August 27, 2013
This just in from the UC Rice blog (http://ucanr.org/blogs/riceblog/). The author is Luis Espino, UC Cooperative Extension Rice Farm Advisor in Colusa-Glenn-Yolo Counties. Japanese Millet August 26, 2013 Japanese millet is not a weed of rice in our area.
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Propanil resistant sedges in CA rice (from UC Rice Blog)

July 19, 2013
By Brad Hanson
A repost of an article by Luis Espino (UCCE Farm Advisor, Colusa Co) on the UC Rice Blog. You can see the originl post HERE He also had a post on a similar topic earlier HERE that had some results from Albert Fischer and Jim Eckert's research on smallflower umbrella sedge.
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Mild or warm year?

July 11, 2013
By Luis A Espino
A few weeks ago I was on the phone with a grower worried that he had put too much nitrogen on his rice for the cool year we were having. Then, the weather turned and got really hot.
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Lundy named agronomy advisor

July 3, 2013
Mark Lundy has joined UCCE as the agronomy advisor in Colusa, Sutter and Yuba counties, effective June 28. He will focus on forage crops, wheat, safflower, processing tomatoes, dry beans, corn, and hybrid seed crops.
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WANTED :: Area Agronomy Advisor

January 30, 2013
Area Agronomy Advisor Serving Colusa, Sutter and Yuba Counties Across California, the University of Californias Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources (UC ANR) is an engine for problem solving.
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UC Berkeley conservation biologist Claire Kremen (right) confers with colleague Alexandria-Marie Klein, then a postdoctoral fellow in her lab. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey).
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Why This Honey Bee Research Is So Important

January 10, 2013
They're on to something. Definitely. An international research team has been researching honey bee pollination of almonds in the three-county area of Yolo, Colusa and Stanislaus since 2008, and what these scientists have discovered is astounding.
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2013 Annual Rice Grower Meetings

January 4, 2013
By Luis A Espino
Four Locations: Richvale: Monday, Jan. 28, 8:30 am, Evangelical Church, 5219 Church St., Richvale Yuba City: Monday, Jan. 28, 1:00 pm, Veterans Hall, 1425 Veterans Memorial Circle, Yuba City Colusa: Tuesday, Feb. 5, 8:30 am, CIP Conference Room, 100 Sunrise Blvd., Colusa Glenn: Tuesday, Feb.
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