Rice Experiment Station
Facility Improvement-77

 

 

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Grower-owned research facilities at the Rice Experiemnt Station have been improved considerably since 1969 with the addition of modern tractors, harvesters and other field equipment; expanded greenhouses; a new germplasm processing and storage building; and better facilities for maintaining the genetic purity of new varieties during processing and storing.

 

Aerial view of the Rice Experiment Station, Biggs, California. The station is the major location for rice varietal development research.

 

Cooperative Extension workers have a key role in conducting rice field experiments in representative districts throughout the growing area. The Board annually provides supporting funds for this work, making it possible to provide technicians and equipment. Growers donate the land for the field experiments. Extension also has the important role of making new technological information available to growers through field meetings and publications. Harvesting this variety trial on the Bruce Wylie farm in Glenn County is UCD staff research associate Larry Post.

 

A new 50-acre cool-area rice research facility has been developed at UC Davis. This has stimulated researchers and their graduate students to participate in rice research projects. It also has proven invaluable in screening for varietal cold tolerance. On the distant harvester are Dr. M.L. Peterson and Lee Otterson, Colusa (who donated the machine). In the immediate foreground are Dr. R.M. Love (dark suit), UCD, who fostered development of the rice facility at Davis, and Fritz Erdman of Colusa, who donated the second harvester to help get the UCD project through its initial year.

 

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