• What?
  UC Davis Alfalfa, Forage, Biofuels, and Small Grains Field Day! Live and in-person! Observe research trials! Hay wagons!
  Barbecue Lunch provided courtesy of California Crop Improvement Association. CCA Credits Offered. Full agenda here
• When?
  May 17th, 2022. Wagons depart 8:00 a.m., 12:15 lunch, 7:30 sign-in.
• Where?
  2400 Hutchison Dr., Davis, CA
• How?
  Register here

 

UC Davis Alfalfa, Forage, Biofuels, and Small Grains Field DayWas held 17th May, 2022

About 110 people attended the field day held 17th May, 2022, first field day in 3 years! Sponsored by UC Davis and California Crop Improvement Association.

Agenda

7:30   Sign-in (refreshments available)

8:00   Welcome and Introductions (John Palmer and Lauren Port, CCIA)

8:05   Travel on Wagons to Field

Alfalfa/Forage/Biofuel Field Tour

     8:20    Breeding Alfalfa Varieties for Drought Tolerance and other Traits—Charlie Brummer and Matt Francis, UC Davis

     8:30    Strategies for Coping with Drought in Alfalfa--Dan Putnam, UC Davis

     8:40    Breeding Cool Season Grasses for Various Markets—Charlie Brummer, UC Davis

     8:50    Switchgrass & Sorghum Field Trials—Bob Hutmacher, UC Davis and UC West Side Research and Extension Center, Five Points, CA

     9:00    Novel Applications for Biofuels—Corinne Scown and Henrick Scheller, Joint Bioenergy Institute, Emeryville, CA

     9:10    Producing Sorghum under Limited Water—Bob Hutmacher, UC Davis

     9:20    Choosing Alfalfa Varieties for Pest Resistance and Yield. Dan Putnam, UC Davis

     9:30    ‘Lightning Talks' on UC Forage Projects

• Utilizing Pre-Plant Treatments for Weed Management for Alfalfa Stand Establishment. Sarah Light, UCCE, Yuba City
• Options for Alfalfa Weevil and the Importance of Controlling Resistance. Ian Grettenberger, UC Davis
• Using Drones for Pest Management in Alfalfa—Rachael Long, UCCE, Woodland, CA
• Technologies for Improving Water Use Efficiency with Overhead Irrigation—Isaya Kisekka, UC Davis
• Using Compost on Alfalfa for Healthy Soils—Rad Schmidt, UC Davis
• Soil Quality Considerations During Drought—Michelle Leinfelder-Miles, UCCE, Stocton

10:00 Depart for Small Grains Tour

     10:15  Updates from UC Davis Small Grains Breeding Program. Jorge Dubcovsky, Oswaldo Chicaiza, Josh Hegarty, Alicia del Blanco, Alison Brown

     10:30  Quantifying environment and management impacts on yield differences between resistant starch (RS) and non-RS wheat varieties. Micah Levinson and Mark Lundy

     10:40  Evaluating genotype x environment x management impacts on California malting barley quality. Maany Ramanan, Taylor Nelsen, Mark Lundy, Glen Fox, and Christine Diepenbrock

     10:50  Bread quality and ecosystem sustainability implications for triticale use in milling applications. Santiago Tamagno, Claudia Carter, Cameron Pittlekow, George Fohner, Teng Vang, Josh Hegarty, Taylor Nelsen, and Mark Lundy

     11:00  Assessing small grain forage productivity in diverse California environments. Mark Lundy, Micah Levinson, Taylor Nelsen, Michelle Leinfelder-Miles, Brian Marsh, Joshua Hegarty

     11:10  Maximizing water productivity from winter cereal crops under water-limited conditions. Caitlin Peterson, Cameron Pittelkow, Mark Lundy

     11:20  Demonstrating efficient N fertilizer in CA small grains. Mark Lundy, Taylor Nelsen, Konrad Mathesius, Nicholas Clark, Sarah Light, Michelle Leinfielder-Miles, Giuliano Galdi, Thomas Getts, Joy Hollingsworth

     11:30  Assessing DIY in-field plant tissue tests to determine N sufficiency in wheat. Leonardo Reynoso, Maya Shydlowski-Besmer, Taylor Nelsen, Salvador Grover, Mark Lundy

     11:40  Controlling herbicide resistant Italian ryegrass in California small grains. Konrad Mathesius and Kevin Ross

     11:50  Plot tours of small grain variety trials

     12:00  CCIA Sponsored LUNCH. Welcome and Introductions (Gail Taylor, Chair, UC Davis Department of Plant Sciences; Claudia Carter, Executive Director, California Wheat Commission; Acknowledgement of Retirees)

2022 Small Grains Breeding Programs Field Day

This year the Small Grains Breeding field day will be in the afternoon!

May 17, 2022. Starting 1:30 -3:30.  TOUR OF GRAINS BREEDING PLOTS

Departure from Agronomy Head Quarter after BBQ in personal cars.

Afternoon Program

1:40 – 2: 00. Oswaldo Chicaiza. New wheat varieties.

2:00 – 2:15. Josh Hegarty. New Triticales for forage and human food.

2:15 - 2:25. Gizaw Wolde. Branched spikes.

2:25 – 2:35. Jorge Dubcovsky / Wenjun Zhang. Development of low allergenicity wheat.

2:40 – 2:55. Allison Brown. Barley for feed and forage.

                                                Organic wheat breeding program.

3:00 – 3:10. Nicole Pretini. Malting barleys with reduced Glycosidic Nitrile (GN).

3:10 – 3:30. Alicia del Blanco. New malting barley varieties.

                                                  New oat varieties