UC Weed Science (weed control, management, ecology, and minutia)

You say, it is a little late in the summer to be talking about using soil solarization for weed control because it works best in the summer when the days are long with high temperatures. Maybe we can learn some things from past situations where control has been marginal or poor.

From a PRESS RELEASE from the USDA Office of Communications: Release No. 0227.14 Contact: Brian Mabry (202)720-4623 USDA Announces Measures to Help Farmers Diversify Weed Control Efforts WASHINGTON, Oct. 15, 2014 Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced several steps that the U.S.

California Ag Today's Patrick Cavanaugh interviews aquatic weed experts John Madsen (USDA-ARS Exotic & Invasive Weeds Research Unit) and Mike Blankinship (Blankinship & Associates.) Click links below. http://ucanr.edu/blogs/UCDWeedScience/blogfiles/25335.mp3 (audio) http://californiaagtoday.

A quick post today to share a link to the recently revised "UC IPM Pest Management Guidelines for Olive" (UC ANR Publication #3452). You can download the whole document as a pdf here, or use it online at the above link.

UCCE Position Announcement If you've ever wished you could be a weed scientist with the University of California Cooperative Extension system (and really, who among us hasn't wished that?