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2024 Rice Disease Survey with Luis Espino
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Sarah Marsh Janish and Luis Espino discussed the 2024 Rice Disease Survey, the results of which showed a low incidence of blast and similar levels of other diseases compared to previous years. The conversation also covered the influence of agronomic practices on diseases in rice crops, the importance of fungicide applications, and the differences in diseases and insect problems between California rice and the mid-south region.
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Hello and welcome to Thoughts on Rice, a podcast hosted by the University of California Cooperative Extension Rice Advisors. I'm one of your hosts, Sarah Marchionish, and I'm a rice farm advisor for Colusa and Yolo counties.
SPEAKER_02:I'm Whitney from the forest. I'm the Cooperative Extension Rice Advisor for Sutter, Yuba, Placer, and Sacramento counties.
SPEAKER_03:My name is Luis Espino. I'm the Rice Farming Systems Advisor for Butte and Glynn
SPEAKER_00:counties. I'm Michelle Leinfelder-Miles. I'm a farm advisor in the Delta region. I work on all sorts of field crops, grains and forages, but one of those is rice. And the counties that I cover are San Joaquin, Sacramento, Yolo-Solano, and Contra Costa counties.
SPEAKER_01:Together, the UCCE Rice Farm Advisors seek to provide relevant, topical, research-backed information relating to California rice production. Today, Luis Espino and I get to talk about the results of the 2024 Rice Disease Survey, which we compiled this last season. The objective of the survey is to document the incidence of rice diseases in Sacramento Valley rice fields, so that the California Air Resources Board agrees to continue to allow the rice industry to burn up to 25% of the available rice acreage. Luis. Hi,
SPEAKER_03:Sarah.
SPEAKER_01:How are you? Good.
SPEAKER_03:Happy New Year.
SPEAKER_01:How are you? Happy New Year. Happy New Year. Yeah, all good. Let's chat about the Rice Disease Survey. Since 2014, we've performed this survey every five years. And when I say we, I mean University of California Cooperative Extension. So can you tell me a bit about what happened to cause this disease survey to start?
SPEAKER_03:Yeah. So, you know, back in the early 2000s, we transitioned from straw burning in any field to only 25% of the acreage. And so when that transition happened, initially, the grower had to prove that he had diseases in the field. And so they were trained by, you know, at the time, the farm advisors. And then at some point, also maybe the ag biologists from the ag commissioner's offices. So they would come and inspect the fields and kind of show that there was disease and document that before they could be allowed to burn. So what happened was that every inspection that was made showed that, yes, there was disease as expected, and the fields were allowed to be burned. And so at some point, it was decided that it would make more sense to just show the level of disease valley-wide and use that as a proxy of how much disease is there in the field. And so that's why we do it this way now. Instead of having the grower, you know, having to certify that he has disease, having somebody come to inspect, you know, we just use the information generated from the survey and say like, yes, we're still seeing diseases and burning is a good way of reducing disease inoculants.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, that seems like that places a lot of burden on the grower and the ag commissioners to go out and inspect all of these fields prior to allocating a burn permit.
SPEAKER_03:Right.
SPEAKER_01:It seems like the Rice Disease Survey is a lot more efficient.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah, I think it serves that purpose. And it also, I think it gives us farm advisors and specialists, people working on rice, gives us a good overview of what's going on in the field and how much disease is out there.
SPEAKER_01:Absolutely. Really valuable information coming out of the disease survey. Let's go into the methodology of the disease survey itself. What does it look like when we do the disease survey? How long does it take? How many counties? How do we decide how much disease is in our rice field?
SPEAKER_03:What we do is in drain time. So late August, early September, we start the survey because that's the time when we're going to see the diseases most severely affecting the rice. So they're easier to identify. And so what we do is we take a team of anywhere between five, six, seven scouts and we just go across the valley and we have a number of fields that that we need to inspect and so for the large counties like you know rice growing counties like colusa glen butte we do 10 fields and then for the medium size we do five and then for the smaller counties you know like maybe sacramento or placer we just do two fields and and those numbers are so of arbitrary you know but I think they they give us a good idea of geographically it kind of show up real nice on the map so it gives you a good distribution of of the fields in the map and so we go to fields you know that we have a number of fields and we just randomly choose fields we go into these fields and every one of the scouts goes in and then we do a certain number of stops in the field, and on each stop, the scouts would look for the four main diseases that we have. So we look for stem rot, aggregate sheath spot, kernel smut, and blast. And this year, we did see a little bit of bacony. And so we noted that. Not a lot, but there was, you know, in the past, we had never really run into bacony. So this was the first year that we were seeing bacony. So we noted that as well. So we then, we just go by presence, absence. So we're not really trying to quantify on a stop like how many tillers show stem rot or how many panicles have blast. We just look for presence absence. And so each scout does a number of stops and we shoot for at least 30 observations per field. And so we have 30 observations and then we move on to the next field. And so with that, we can kind of have a feeling or we can calculate a percent incidence of the four diseases.
SPEAKER_01:So with all of these stops, I think I read in your report that there are over 1600 individual observations made across the race disease survey. So it seems like that's a pretty robust data set to get an idea of how much disease is in the area.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah, yeah, I think so. And it's interesting because we've been doing this now. This is our third time doing it. So we do it every five years. This is the third time we done it. And so I've been looking at what we did the two previous times and a couple of diseases, stem rot and aggravation spot, they are pretty much the same. The levels that we see have been very, very similar.
SPEAKER_01:Interesting.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah. But blast, for example, which is a disease that varies quite a bit. In some years we see more and this year we only run into a few fields where we saw one panic in each field with blast. So very low levels. And that's what we've seen during the season, kind of just looking around and responding to PCAs and growers calls. If they were suspecting blast, I went to a couple of those and it was in blast, right? So we kind of knew that it was a low blast year, but yeah, with the survey, we know like, yeah, very little blast out there.
SPEAKER_01:It's great though, that you can see immediately that reflection of how accurate the disease survey has been, at least with the blast survey, with the real life results that we're seeing in the field of not very much blast recorded in the disease survey, not very much blast reported, at least to us and across the rice growing region.
SPEAKER_03:Right. And then with the tiller diseases, you know, like stem rot and aggregation spot. So those, you know, we've talked about them at grower meetings quite a bit. Those go, the inoculum goes into the field. And so you would expect that they would be somewhat similar every year, if not increasing over time, but it doesn't seem to be increasing. It's already pretty, they're present pretty widespread across the valley. So yeah, it makes sense that every year we find about roughly, you know, the same amount of observations positive for those two diseases. And the same with Colonel's mud, it varies a little bit, right? Depending on the year.
SPEAKER_01:Any other differences between this recent disease survey and the past disease surveys in terms of disease proportions?
SPEAKER_03:I think the main one was blast. And then that's, you know, that depends on the years. If we would have done the survey in 2023, which was a blast year, we would have found it in a lot more places, right? But no, everything else, like I said, was similar and with the added of identifying some bacchani here and there.
SPEAKER_01:Let's go over this a little bit. So we talked about how this year, unlike other years, we did see some more Bacchanet. And can you explain why we usually don't search for Bacchanet during the rice disease survey?
SPEAKER_03:Yeah, it was something we didn't look for in the past because we didn't really have Bacchanet levels that would be identifiable at that time. We've seen over the past, I don't know, now it's been maybe like four years or so, three years, an increase in bacony, I suspect it comes mostly from a reduction in the use of bleach as a seed treatment.
SPEAKER_01:Because just for people who aren't aware, that's when we treat for bacony. Before we fly on our seed, we'll soak the seed in a bleach solution for a period of time before flying on the seed, and that can help kill the bacony before it actually takes effect on the plant itself.
SPEAKER_03:Right. It kind of disinfests the seed. So bacony is transmitted mostly on the seed. And so treating the seed with the bleach really, it's really effective. You know, you can have some instances where you do see bacony in treated seed, but for the most part, it's very unusual. And so with these, you know, previous years, we were seeing a little bit more bacony. It looks like, you know, maybe because not all seed is being treated. So some of what happens is the the seedlings that get infected most of them die before they don't really last past tillering but there are a few that will survive and then those will develop symptoms towards the end of the cycle and so the plants just by the time the panicle should be produced the panicle comes out but it's blanked and then the whole plant just starts dying and you can see the sporulation on the tiller and So they're kind of easy to identify once you see them. But there's not many of them. But, you know, it's interesting that we were not finding any of those in the past. And now we're seeing a little bit.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah. Going on to that, what do we then do with the results of the disease survey? We've collected all this information. You've compiled it. You've made the statistical analysis. But what do we do with it then? Does it just sit in a drawer or does it go somewhere?
SPEAKER_03:Well, no. So this information then is provided. to the Air Resources Board. We present the information and they use that to kind of make the determination that yes, you know, there's diseases are still a problem in rice cultivation. And so we're going to continue with the burn program and, you know, letting growers burn up to 25%. That's the main use of the information. So we're getting some other information in terms of, you know, how widespread some of these diseases were and And also, if there was anything new that would be starting any new disease and we started to pick it up on the survey, that would be also helpful to know there's something that we need to start doing to prevent something else coming to affect us.
SPEAKER_01:Just anecdotally, having done the disease survey with you and the team this summer, it was also a great opportunity to get a look at some weeds that we were seeing in the field, just in random fields that we happened to be surveying. some different weeds than we were usually seeing around rice fields. So as far as just getting more information in terms of rice production, being in the field itself seemed to be pretty anecdotally important.
SPEAKER_03:Oh, yeah. Yeah. You get to see things that otherwise you might miss, you know, because you're not really looking. Something related to that, for example, we were on a field where we started to find a lot of army wounds. That was interesting because you know, we do the armyworm trapping and we do monitor for armyworm. So we have three or four fields that we monitor through the season to see what the population is doing. And we were not finding any armyworms at heading. But when we visited this field, there was a ton of armyworms.
SPEAKER_01:And that's later in the season than we usually see a lot of armyworms, right?
SPEAKER_03:Yeah. I mean, they can still be there at heading. So brings home the message that every field is a little bit different and you can have a lot of fields with now no armyworms on them or no disease. And then there are some fields that for whatever reason, they will have a lot more pressure. Always like to think about, you know, what one of my teachers said, you know, the best thing you can put in your field is your shadow because you have to be in your field to know what's going on.
SPEAKER_01:I like that. That's really, really important because, yeah, you can see things from your truck, from the side of the field, but the reality is you You're not going to see the full picture.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah, or just hearing, you know, what's going on, like the neighbors or if the ACAs are saying, oh, we're not seeing any of this, but you never know. It's always good to go and take a look.
SPEAKER_01:So in the recent disease survey, we saw different diseases that were prevalent across the region and actually saw higher incidences of some of the diseases in specific sub areas. And so, for example, we saw that Glenn County actually had the highest incidence of stem rot. So can you explain why the disease presence might be higher in some areas versus others?
SPEAKER_03:Well, you know, there are some differences in terms of weather. Up north, it tends to be a little warmer. Glynn County can have a little warmer weather than some of the southern part of the valley. And so that can be a contributing factor. I don't know if there's really a variety effect. You know, I haven't looked at the acreage of the different varieties per county or region so I don't know if that would be but my guess is it's probably mostly weather related and so for example we did see more stem rot and typically if this would have been a blast year we would have seen most of the blast up on Glen County and Colusa County because those are the areas where we you know the weather seems to be more favorable for blast but also thinking of another disease and this is aggregate sheath spot, which is not a major disease, you know, but it's present, it's widespread. It was a little bit more noticeable on the east side of the valley, which we know that, you know, it's soil related and related to potassium. And so some of the soils on the east side tend to be more deficient on potassium just because of the type of clay that they have. And so we tend to see a little bit more of aggregate sheath spot.
SPEAKER_01:Okay. So I guess two of these diseases then, and you've mentioned them already, but stem rot and aggregate sheet spot can actually be pretty highly influenced by agronomic practices, which can include fertility, like added fertility and straw management. Can you touch on a little bit about how these agronomic practices can influence the development of these diseases?
SPEAKER_03:Yeah. So I think, you know, for the tiller diseases, yeah, there's nitrogen certainly has a a strong effect on stem rot. And unfortunately, you know, we need nitrogen and we need nitrogen to reach our yields, you know, the optimal yields. But the more nitrogen you add makes the plants more susceptible to stem rot. So in some cases, it's kind of hard to avoid, you know, you're not going to reduce your nitrogen just to have less stem rot. Right. But I think it's important to keep mind because you know you don't want to do you know add nitrogen as thinking of well maybe just as an insurance or without properly assessing the need of the of the crop right like you know if you're going to use a top dress well maybe go out and use the leaf color chart and and make sure that you do need it with aggregate sheet spot it's more related to potassium and so if you have a Potassium deficiency aggregation can be problematic. I wouldn't say a major problem, but it can be problematic. And it's similar for stem rot. So stem rot can also be more severe when there's a potassium deficiency. And so potassium, it's a very important nutrient. And I think most of the growers and the PCAs on the east side know that very well because they've seen it. But a lot of times on the West side, we're not so aware of it because we've always thought that we have plenty of potassium and that deficiencies will not occur. But we've seen the potassium deficiency symptoms on the West side. And, you know, it could be just that the information about, you know, having enough potassium, it's from quite a few years back. And so the varieties are different. Our yields are higher, you know, than say 30 40 years ago our yields are much higher so we're extracting quite a bit more so so yeah we've seen potassium deficiency symptoms on the west side so it's something that it's important to keep in mind that review your your soil fertility you know add soil sample leave sample and make sure that you have enough in there because it not only affects the plants directly but then you can end up with more disease level more disease pressure by not addressing the fertility. And then blast also is related to nitrogen. So the same as with stem rot, you know, if you have too much nitrogen, then your blast can be more severe. But that's another one where, well, you know, we need the yield, so we can't really cut down much on nitrogen.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, you can't tell someone, hey, you might have a disease next year, so cut back on your nitrogen. That's not going to fly. Is there data to suggest that that the reduction of burning of rice straw has influenced the rate of potassium available in the soils?
SPEAKER_03:I don't
SPEAKER_01:think
SPEAKER_03:anybody's looked at
SPEAKER_01:that. I feel like it'd be hard to test that.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah, I mean, you would have to go back in time and find some soil samples. And there might be some, because Bruce did some work just recently on potassium levels across the valley. So that information is available. And I know there is some information, I I can't remember, but it's some of the work that I think Scardacci did. And I think he looked at potassium. There's something floating around there. So one could look, go back and look at and compare levels, but I don't know how scientific that would be because not the same fields,
SPEAKER_01:not a lot of control in that.
SPEAKER_03:Right. But it would be an interesting exercise. Yeah. I started working on rice here in California in 2007. And, you know, I worked them, but with, with Chris Greer, uh, Chris was a plant pathologist, and so I helped him with some of his work, and we would do some fungicide trials. And it's interesting because he did trials at least for a couple of years, and we couldn't find an effect on... Basically, we were testing a quadris or a soxistropin, and we didn't see an effect on the tiller diseases.
SPEAKER_01:Interesting.
SPEAKER_03:And then he moved out of the area, and so we really didn't... do any work for a few years until maybe 2018 or 2019 when I started doing again. After having quite a bit of growers coming with disease issues, I started doing the trials again. And then we started seeing a strong effect of asoxystrobin on the tiller diseases. And so that might be related to the burn over the years as we've stopped burning. We might be increasing our inoculum levels to the point where in the past, there wasn't enough disease to show an effect.
SPEAKER_01:But now there's higher levels of disease and then the azoxystrobin.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah, maybe with this body. So you would pick it up here, but not there. But now after, you know, almost 20 years of no burning, we do see an effect. I mean, it's, yeah, and it's really obvious.
SPEAKER_01:While we're talking about straw anyway. So the pathogens that cause the rice diseases, the tiller diseases, they can actually overwinter in the rice straw in the form called sclerotia. And that can actually survive in the tissue and accumulate in the soil over time. Is there another way besides burning to reduce the survival of the sclerotia in the rice fields?
SPEAKER_03:Yeah. So the sclerotia, you know, they will remain on the rice. And then early in the spring, when it starts warming up, you know, say March, April. So those sclerotia will germinate and they'll use the rice straw as a food source and then produce more sclerotia, produce more inoculum. And so if you decompose the rice straw so that it's not available, then you can reduce that increase that we get, not during the season, but later, after during the fallow period. So that's why it's important to get, you know, if you're not burning, to try to get good decomp, because that's limiting how much inoculum is being produced in the field.
SPEAKER_01:So a method, maybe flood, stomp the field, try and get that straw to decompose.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah, anything you can do to promote straw decomposition will help. Of course, burning is the best. And if you reduce the amount of straw in the field, so if you're baling, that will would also, we can say, theoretically help. But I don't think we have any actual data to prove that baling helps. You know, when you bale, you're still leaving half the straw behind. You can't cut it all the way to the ground. And there's always going to be some straw. Just like when you burn, you also, you know, there's always some left behind. But yeah, but you're reducing the amount of substrate that, you know, the pathogen will have to increase more inoculate, to produce more inoculum later.
SPEAKER_01:Is there evidence to support the survival of the sclerotia in the baled straw bales that come off the field so that if they were broken up, they could potentially spread disease somewhere else?
SPEAKER_03:I guess they could. There's some work from Bob Webster, who used to be the plant pathologist at UC Davis, and he determined that the half-life of the sclerotia is two years.
SPEAKER_01:Wow. Wow.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah. So yeah, if there was sclerotia in the rice straw, and you know, that that straw is moved somewhere else, I guess they could survive.
SPEAKER_01:Theoretically, theoretically, yeah.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah. But you know, as long as they're not put back in the rice field, you know, it would be
SPEAKER_01:doesn't really matter.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah, it wouldn't be a problem.
SPEAKER_01:Okay, so we spent a lot of time talking about the diseases. And I want to note here, we haven't talked a lot about control of the diseases in season and a point of that, I think, comes back to a presentation I saw you make a few months ago, where you were talking about disease management. And then the next slide was quadris management. Because in California, we don't have a lot of chemicals we can use to control rice diseases. Would you like to touch on, I guess, the availability or lack of availability of chemical control of rice diseases in California?
SPEAKER_03:Yeah. Yeah, we don't have really a lot of fungicide We really have two, you know, we have azoxystrobin and it does work and we do have propiconazole and that one, it's only for Colonel's mud. So yeah, those two fungicides are available for the rice industry. And so it's important to use them, you know, correctly. You know, the timing is very important, especially for blast and Colonel's mud and and stem rot. I found that aggregate sheet spot, you know, the timing is not so critical. We tend to get control even if you put it on too early. But if you go either too early or too late with stem rot, you don't get as good control. It has to be very early heading. That's when we get the best control for stem rot. And with blast, it's similar. We get it, you know, the best control is early heading, maybe starting from late boot to early heading that that might be a good time and then when you're if you're thinking of kernel smart kernel smart the timing is going to be uh at the at the boot stage so if you go too late if you go early heading that's that's too late for for kernel smart so it's a little you know it could get a little confusing but so i think you know when we're talking about disease management it's between the uh the boot stage maybe mid boot to the early heading stage that's That's the window for fungicide applications. And then, you know, it's challenging because a lot of these diseases like blast and kernel smut, we don't see them at that time.
SPEAKER_01:Right.
SPEAKER_03:At least with blast, if you've seen leaf blast, then you have something to go on. It's like, okay, yeah, we need to do a treatment because we might get some neck blast. But with kernel smut, it's tricky because, you know, kernel smut
SPEAKER_01:doesn't... You can't even see the kernels yet. Yeah.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah. It doesn't show until the panicle is mature So you really have to go with the history of the field, you know, and the area. If kernel smut's been a problem in the past, you know, then you might decide to do a treatment. Now, with the Taylor diseases, you can do an assessment in the field to see how much you have. And we're doing some work on that. And I think we have some data that shows that, yeah, you can relate, especially stem rot. We haven't had enough fields of aggregations, but to make conclusions. But stem rot, You can go in at the boot stage and make an assessment of how much stem rot you have and predict how much you're going to have at the end of the season. And so make a decision as to, is this going to really affect the yield or not? So we're going to do that again this year. And based on that, maybe here in the future, we can come up with a more systematic way of determining stem rot levels before the end of the season. That's when you really see the stem rot cause the effects on the plant.
SPEAKER_01:Wow, that sounds like there's some interesting things in the pipeline.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah, and it might help also make decisions. If you see that you're having high levels of stem rot, you might try to get that field burned. Now, you don't have to make that decision very early. You can wait till we harvest. Or you can make decisions about what variety you want to have there. So we know that varieties that that have very short periods of development tend to be more susceptible. And, you know, the stemmer will be more severe in varieties like, you know, M105 or the sweet rice. And so you might want to go with a 209 or 211.
SPEAKER_00:401?
SPEAKER_03:401, yeah. After last year, I don't know if anybody wants to go with a 401.
SPEAKER_01:But we'll see how much agar just planted next year.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah, yeah, we'll see.
SPEAKER_01:I mean, we've been talking about this this whole time. We've only got these... basically four diseases in California rice. But in the Mid-South region, they deal with a lot of diseases. The insect problems too, but a lot more diseases compared to us all the way out here. Can you talk a little bit about why there's so much of a difference in the two geographic regions?
SPEAKER_03:Yeah, I think the main reason is the weather. So we have our nice dry summer with no rainfall.
SPEAKER_01:I've told people that out there, they cannot believe it. And I tell them the rain stops and then it doesn't start again until Thanksgiving and they think I'm lying. But it's true out here.
SPEAKER_03:Probably the fact that we're somewhat isolated, you know, we're not near any of the southern states that produce rice might help us too. You know, we don't have things coming, get being introduced, you know, or the risk of things getting introduced is lower. And, you know, if you think about it, the only diseases that we currently have that kind of were here all along are the tiller diseases. Blast was introduced sometime in the 90s. Kernelsmod I think it was first found sometime in the 80s. So yeah, we just don't have the conditions that diseases or pathogens like. You know, another thing is I think the industry has been really smart in making sure that any materials that come into California, any rice seed that comes into California, there's a protocol that has to be followed. You know, it has to go in the greenhouse first, make sure that there's nothing on it that would be harmful to the industry. And so I think that's that helps too in reducing the risk of getting something introduced.
SPEAKER_01:We had Timothy Blank on here a while ago talking about the Rice Quality Assurance Program, the Seed Certification Program, and part of the rationale behind those programs was also maintaining disease-free, weed-free seed. And so there's been a lot of industry effort focused on maintaining the quality of rice seed in California.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah, and that's another very important Yeah, I know Timothy won't let a field that's full of, say, blast or backening, you know, to be a seed field. So, yeah.
SPEAKER_01:Well, Luis, I think we're about done with the lecture part of our talk, but I just started doing something recently and I had poor Tim Johnson was my first experimental person on this question, but you get to be the second.
SPEAKER_03:Okay.
SPEAKER_01:What is your favorite rice variety to eat or consume in some fashion?
SPEAKER_03:So, So my favorite type is medium grain rice.
SPEAKER_01:That's a good answer.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah. Now, my wife, though, she likes more the basmati, which we don't eat all the time, but she tends to favor the long grains and I tend to favor the medium grains. Whenever I buy the rice or I get a sample, I buy medium, you know, I get medium grain and then we eat medium grain. And, you know, to me, I can eat anything with rice, but for her, is like certain dishes have to have a certain type of rice, you know, like Mexican food has to be long grain rice. So yeah, you learn about the rice. I don't know what you call that. The appropriate rice type that you're supposed to, like a wine, right? Like you have a white wine with fish.
SPEAKER_01:A rice sommelier.
SPEAKER_03:There you go. Oh
SPEAKER_01:my goodness. That is really impressive.
SPEAKER_03:You can't just have, you know, any rice with any dish. Well, I could, but
SPEAKER_01:you're not supposed to. I think we've just invented a new career and your wife might be our pioneer. Well, Luis, thank you. Is there any sort of event you'd like to promote?
SPEAKER_03:Well, we have, besides the annual grower meetings, we have the rice production workshop this year. I think in July, I can't remember the date exactly. You know, that's a big event for us. I know a lot of growers like to attend, a lot of PCAs.
SPEAKER_01:And that's a big one. That's a two-day event, right? It's a two-day event. And this year we're going to have it July 23rd and the 24th.
SPEAKER_03:Yeah. And so it's going to be in Davis this year. It might be a little out of the way for some of the northern counties, but we're making it a little bit more available to the southern counties there. So we'll see.
SPEAKER_01:Great. Okay. Well, with that, I mean, you've been on here a lot before. Your contact information is available, but you want to say it again for any of our new listeners?
SPEAKER_03:Yeah. If anybody has any questions any issues um you know they want to discuss from last year or coming up here for getting ready for the new for the new season uh yeah give me a call 530-635-6234 and you know you can text and my email is on on the website on the internet so yeah
SPEAKER_01:great all right well thank you so much Luis all right thanks Sarah
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SPEAKER_01:We have a few upcoming rice meetings in the new year. As you know, we'll be having our rice winter grower meetings in February. And so we have a series of meetings. They all have the same agenda. Don't go to every single meeting. You'll be awfully bored. But pick one. Pick the one that's closest to you or most convenient to you and attend that one. So the first one will be the woodland meeting, which will take place February 10th at 8 a.m. The location for that will be the The second meeting will be the Richvale meeting, which will take place February 12th at 8 a.m. The location of that is the Richvale Evangelical Church. The Willows meeting will be that same day, February 12th at 1 p.m., and that location will be the Glen County Office of Education. The Colusa meeting will take place February 13th at 8 a.m. in the CIP conference room, and the Yuba City meeting will take place that same day again, February 13th at 1 p.m., and that'll be in the Veterans Hall. For more information about meeting times and locations or addresses and agendas, please feel free to look at our resources online. That'll include the UC Rice blog and the UC Agronomy website, or feel free to call your local Extension Office for more information. In terms of other resources that you might take advantage of, you can also look at our newsletters, which include Rice Briefs, which covers Colusa Yolo, Rice Notes, which covers Yuba Sutter, Rice Leaf, which covers Butte and Glen, and Field Notes, which takes care of rice in the Delta region of California.
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SPEAKER_01:Thanks for listening. We're also experimenting with polls on Spotify. So if you're listening on Spotify, you might have an option to answer some of those questions and we might be able to talk about that on the air. You can also email us with any comments, questions, or concerns at thoughtsonrice at ucdavis.edu. We're glad to have you here for season two of the Thoughts on Rice podcast. And remember, like the growers like to say, have a rice life. Mention of an agrochemical does not constitute a recommendation, merely the sharing of research findings. Always follow the label. The label is the law. Find out more at ipm.ucanr.edu. The views, thoughts, and opinions expressed are the speaker's own, and do not represent the views, thoughts, and opinions of the University of California. The material and information presented here is for general purposes only. The University of California name and all forms and abbreviations are the property of its owner, and its use does not imply endorsement of or opposition to any specific organization, product, or service.
