The weather looks great for 9 May, 2024.....
Please Join us for a Grains/Alfalfa Field Day at UC Davis, coming up soon. Always a great field trip in the morning!!!
Join us for a BBQ lunch sponsored by California Crop Improvement and learn something new about grains and alfalfa.
Date & Time: May 9th, 7:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m.
Supported by the California Crop Improvement Association (CCIA)
REGISTER HERE (no charge for event)
LOCATION: Department of Plant Sciences Field Facility, UC Davis
(2400 Hutchison Dr, Davis CA 38.5390, -121.7800)
Continuing Education Units (CEUs):
3.0 CCA (1.5 Crop Management; 1 Soil & Water Management; 0.5 Nutrient Management)
1.5 CDFA INMP (1 Irrigation Management; 0.5 Nitrogen Management)
FIELD DAY SCHEDULE
7:30 Sign-in (refreshments available)
7:55 Welcome and Introductions—Timothy Blank (CCIA)
8:00 Overview of UC Davis small grains breeding program—Jorge Dubcovsky (UC Davis)
8:05 Travel on wagons to stop 1
Small Grain Breeding
8:20 Barley and Oat variety development and plot tours—Alicia del Blanco (UC Davis)
8:35 Travel to stop 2
8:40 Wheat research overview— Jorge Dubcovsky (UC Davis)
8:50 Semi-dwarfing genes, Rht25 and APL2—Junli Zhang and Chaozhong Zhang (UC Davis)
8:55 Reduced allergenicity wheat—Maria Rottersman and Jorge Dubcovsky (UC Davis)
9:00 Biological Nitrification Inhibition (BNI) traits for improved N use efficiency—Josh Hegarty (UC Davis)
9:10 UAV use for improved efficiency in selections— Josh Hegarty (UC Davis)
9:15 Travel to stop 3
9:20 Wheat, triticale, and barley variety evaluations and plot tours— Josh Hegarty (UC Davis)
Small Grain Agronomy
9:50 Traits associated with yield stable small grain varieties—Josh Hegarty and Mark Lundy (UC Davis/UCCE)
10:00 Deficit irrigation and water productivity in small grains—Maya Shydlowski-Besmer and Mark Lundy (UC Davis/UCCE)
10:10 Agronomic considerations for winter cover cropping in annual systems—Sarah Light and Kosana Suvo?arev (UCCE/UC Davis)
10:20 Tillage and perenniality effects on crop productivity and soil health—Kalyn Taylor and Mark Lundy (USDA/UC Davis/UCCE)
10:30 Digestate and hydrolysate effects on forage and grain yield response to nitrogen fertilizer in small grains—Valentina Roel Rezk and Cameron Pittelkow (UC Davis)
10:40 Herbicide resistant common chickweed in SJV of CA: New findings—Nicholas Clark (UCCE)
10:50 Travel to stop 4
Alfalfa Agronomy and Breeding
11:00 Strategies for deficit irrigation in alfalfa—Dan Putnam (UC Davis/UCCE)
11:10 Irrigation Management & Soil Moisture Monitoring in Alfalfa—Chuck Janssen (UC Davis)
11:20 UC alfalfa non-dormant breeding for the Central Valley, and Low Deserts—Charlie Brummer and Cree King (UC Davis)
11:30 The effect of almond shell mulch application on established alfalfa fields—Sarah Light (UCCE)
11:40 Trials on protein extraction from alfalfa—Dan Putnam and Chris DeBen (UC Davis/UCCE)
11:50 Discussion
12:00 Travel to lunch
12:10 - 1:10 CCIA Sponsored LUNCH
12:30 Acknowledgements
CCIA Directors Katy Soden and Timothy Blank
California Wheat Commission
