Chairman's Report 85

Chairman's Report-85
Rice Research Board Chairman, Michael E. Boeger	Your Rice Research Board has worked diligently over the past seventeen years to maximize the returns on your research dollars, and we have been tremendously successful in increasing your productivity. Think of the financial repercussions if our average yield per acre, which was 7,400 pounds last year, had remained at 5,500 pounds per acre as it was in 1969 when this program was initiated. We all hope, and I expect that this tremendous advancement in yield will continue into the 21st century. The rice industry has been blessed by the efforts of two excellent research teams, one at the University of California at Davis and the other at the Rice Experimental Station, Biggs. Work at the University of California has been essential in the commercial development, licensing, and continued use of such beneficial chemicals as Bolero and Ordram for watergrass control, and Basagran and MCPA for broadleaf weed control. Control of rice pests and diseases are continuing projects at the University of California and are essential for our economic survival. Also, rice management techniques are continually evaluated at both Davis and the Rice Research Station with the goal of maximizing our yield. Many new varieties have been released over the past seventeen years. The rice breeders at the station at Biggs and at U.C. Davis have created a level of productivity unmatched in the U.S. They have earned the respect and gratitude of the rice farmers of California and their colleagues throughout the world. "Short stature" is a code word for progress in rice. The University of California Agricultural Experiment Station and Cooperative Extension have been essential in instigating and validating the progress we have made as an industry. Area wide testing of our released varieties, and the new experimental varieties, are essential for our continued progress in yield enhancement. Other areas of research with large expenditures over the past several years have been the attempts to discover alternative uses for rice straw, and the reduction in smoke from our field burning. Without this effort we probably would not be burning any of our rice straw and would be forced to be less competitive in the tough economic climate of today. I want to thank my fellow board members for their efforts and all the grower who have supported this research program. We are recognized as not only the world's leader in increased yield per acre, but also as being tremendously cost effective in our efforts. With your help, this tremendous record of progress can continue to make California rice growers the most productive in the world.

Chairman's Report-85

Rice Research Board Chairman, Michael E. Boeger

Your Rice Research Board has worked diligently over the past seventeen years to maximize the returns on your research dollars, and we have been tremendously successful in increasing your productivity. Think of the financial repercussions if our average yield per acre, which was 7,400 pounds last year, had remained at 5,500 pounds per acre as it was in 1969 when this program was initiated. We all hope, and I expect that this tremendous advancement in yield will continue into the 21st century.

The rice industry has been blessed by the efforts of two excellent research teams, one at the University of California at Davis and the other at the Rice Experimental Station, Biggs.

Work at the University of California has been essential in the commercial development, licensing, and continued use of such beneficial chemicals as Bolero and Ordram for watergrass control, and Basagran and MCPA for broadleaf weed control.

Control of rice pests and diseases are continuing projects at the University of California and are essential for our economic survival. Also, rice management techniques are continually evaluated at both Davis and the Rice Research Station with the goal of maximizing our yield.

Many new varieties have been released over the past seventeen years. The rice breeders at the station at Biggs and at U.C. Davis have created a level of productivity unmatched in the U.S. They have earned the respect and gratitude of the rice farmers of California and their colleagues throughout the world. "Short stature" is a code word for progress in rice.

The University of California Agricultural Experiment Station and Cooperative Extension have been essential in instigating and validating the progress we have made as an industry. Area wide testing of our released varieties, and the new experimental varieties, are essential for our continued progress in yield enhancement.

Other areas of research with large expenditures over the past several years have been the attempts to discover alternative uses for rice straw, and the reduction in smoke from our field burning. Without this effort we probably would not be burning any of our rice straw and would be forced to be less competitive in the tough economic climate of today.

I want to thank my fellow board members for their efforts and all the grower who have supported this research program. We are recognized as not only the world's leader in increased yield per acre, but also as being tremendously cost effective in our efforts. With your help, this tremendous record of progress can continue to make California rice growers the most productive in the world.