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witha little fewer than10,000acresplanted every year. The Experiment Station’s most recent long-grain release is L-208, which yield- edwell more than 10,000 pounds inmore than 40 trials. This new release comes as Rasmussen prepares to take over leadership of the station from outgoing director Kent McKenzie, who is retiring thismonthafter 32 years at the Biggs facility. The Experiment Station is a unique fa- cility, operated by the grower-financed and -controlled California Rice Research Foundation, which cooperates with UC and U.S. Department of Agriculture re- searchers to develop new varieties and help find solutions to pest, disease and weed issues. Variety choice is a complex decision, depending on microclimates within the rice-growing region, markets and the de- sired planting and harvest dates. UC researchers have developed free software tohelp farmersdecidewhichrice variety to plant in a particular field, avail- ableat rice.ucanr.edu/Guidelines/Variety. ( Bo b J o hn s on i s a r e p o r t e r i n Sacramento. He may be contacted at bjohn11135@gmail.com.)
formed M-206 in this regard. In addition to M-211, the Experiment Stat ion i s al so releas ing M-210, a high-yielding, medium-grain varietywith resistance to blast, a fungal disease that starts at the leaves and can spread to the panicles, at some cost to crop yield. The third relatively newmedium-grain release isM-209, ahigh-yielding, early-ma- turing variety that first became available five years ago. “Those threewill replaceM-206as lead- ing varieties,” Rasmussen predicted. Researchers also continue to experi- ment to see if significant issues with some oldermedium-grainvarieties canbeover- come through propermanagement. “M-105 is a nice variety,” said Bruce Linqui st , Univers i ty of Cal i fornia Cooperative Extension rice specialist. “It is earlier than M-206 and has a little higher yieldpotential, but it is susceptible to lodging.” R e l e a s e d b y t h e E x p e r i me n t Station in 2011, M-105 is a very early, high-quality, medium-grain variety that may be most sui table in areas where early harvest is important.
Free software available online from the University of California can help farmers determine the best rice variety to plant for the conditions of a particular field.
Linquist is working to learn if a fertiliz- er program can be used to moderate the lodging problems. “Lodging slows down the harvest and gives back the M-105 advantage of earli- ness,” he said. “Can you control this with nitrogenmanagement?” Because nearly 90% of California rice acreage is planted in medium-grain varieties, researchers give them the most attention.
But California is a major player in rice, secondonly toArkansas inproductionna- tionwide, and theExperiment Stationalso develops and releases long-grain, short- grain and specialty varieties. Last year, the station released S-202, an early-maturing, very high-yielding, short-grain variety, because farmers still put in around 50,000 acres of short grain every year. Long grain is even more of a specialty,
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farmsor ranches for agritourismpotential, andconsider thecostsandpotential bene- fits of various activities, Leff said. Due toCOVID-19restrictions, thisyear’s classes will be mostly virtual, conducted via Zoom, with one in-person field day in each class series if allowed by health authorities. Each class will be regionally focused, participatory and limited to par- ticipants fromwithin the region. Theclass intheSanLuisObisporegionis openonly to farmers, ranchers andothers involvedinagritourisminSanLuisObispo, Monterey and SantaBarbara counties. Six two-hour Zoommeetings will be held ev- eryTuesday, Jan. 12 toFeb. 16, from9 to11 a.m., with a possible in-person field day Jan. 26. SharedZoomparticipationwill be available at the San Luis Obispo County FarmBureauoffice for thosewithpoor in- ternet access. To register for that class, see ucanr.edu/agtourslo. The class in the Mendocino region is open only to farmers, ranchers and others involved in or planning agritour- ism in Mendocino, Lake and Sonoma count ies. The class format wi l l in- clude four two-hour Zoom meetings, Wednesday mornings March 3-24, with one in-person field day on the site of a Mendocino County agritourism oper- ation on March 31. To register for that class, see ucanr.edu/agtourmendo. Cost is $40 for all class sessions, with lunch at the field day. For more information, see sarep. ucdavis.edu/fs/agritourism/intensive2021 or contact Leff at paleff@ucanr.edu or 530-902-9763.
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