The Agronomy Research and Information Center (Agronomy RIC) provides research-based, comprehensive, and reliable information on California agronomic crops to the general public, industry, and governmental and private agencies. The agronomic crops comprise major food, fiber, and forage crops grown on six million acres in California. These include alfalfa, winter cereals (barley, oats, wheat), corn, cotton, dry edible legumes, rice, safflower, sugarbeet, sunflower, and specialty crops (kenaf, lupin, switchgrass and sesame).

Alfalfa field

About the Center

Agronomy Links

Alfalfa
Contact: Dan Putnam, 2240 Plant & Environmental Sciences; Phone: 530 752-8982; E-mail: dhputnam@ucdavis.edu

Beans
Contact: Steve Temple, 1234 Plant & Environmental Sciences; Phone: 530 752-8216; E-mail: srtemple@ucdavis.edu

Conferences & Meetings Calendar

Corn
Contact: Kent Brittan, UCCE, 70 Cottonwood, Woodland; Phone: 530 666-8143; E-mail: klbrittan@ucdavis.edu

Cotton
Contact: Robert Hutmacher, Shafter Research Station;Phone: 661 746-8020; E-mail: rbhutmacher@ucdavis.edu

Publications

Rice
Contact: James E. Hill, 1314 Plant & Environmental Sciences; Phone: 530 752-3458; jehill@ucdavis.edu

Safflower
Contact: Steve Kaffka, 2308 Plant & Environmental Sciences; Phone: 530 752-8108; E-mail: srkaffka@ucdavis.edu

Small Grains
Contact: Lee Jackson, 1306 Plant & Environmental Sciences; Phone: 530 752-0701; E-mail: lfjackson@ucdavis.edu

Sugarbeet
Contact: Steve Kaffka, 2308 Plant & Environmental Sciences; Phone: 530 752-8108; E-mail: srkaffka@ucdavis.edu

Sustainable Agriculture

Western Wheat Works Meeting
Joint Meeting of the Western Wheat Workers, North Central Cereal Disease Workers (NCERA-184) and Western Education/Extension Research Activities, WERA-97 Sunday through Tuesday, May 11-13,2008 University of California, Davis, California