Rice Rotation Calculator

This crop rotation calculator explores how different production decisions may impact profitability in the year following rice when switching into a common rotation crop: tomato, sunflower, safflower, or beans.

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Rice Rotation Calculator

This interactive decision support tool is meant to support rice growers in Sacramento Valley and other interested persons in understanding the possible economic impacts of switching from rice over to a rotation crop. Crop rotations have been shown to support several agronomic challenges related to pests, and resistance issues, by disrupting pest life cycles, as well as allowing for the use of pesticide modes of action not available in a continuous rice system. Rotations may also help to improve long-term soil health functions like improved soil structure, and increased nutrient cycling and uptake.

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This Calculator was developed by a collaborative effort between UC Davis, UCCE, UC IPM and was funded by the Western IPM Center. If you have questions or suggestions to improve the usability, please contact Whitney Brim-DeForest (wbrimdeforest@ucanr.edu), Cooperative Extension Rice Advisor, or Sara Rosenberg (srosenberg@ucdavis.edu), UC Davis Doctoral Student in Horticulture and Agronomy.