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

Want to learn more about weeds? Attend the... Salinas Valley Weed School 2012 Tuesday, 11/13/2012 8 AM-12 noon Agricultural Center Conference Room 1432 Abbott Street, Salinas, CA It's free... there's no fee. For more information call Richard Smith (831) 759-7357. CLICK HERE for the agenda.

Good things come to those that wait. Well, when it came to getting a registration for prometryn for use on cilantro, wait we did. I recall doing the first trials on prometryn for use on cilantro in 1999.

Small smutgrass (Sporobolus indicus) is a grass that grows well in irrigated pastures but is not palatable to livestock. So what happens if it grows well and it doesn't get eaten? It takes over the pasture! Learn some simple control measures that will keep this weed in check.

I most often work with land managers in Southern California and one thing that surprises me is the size of restoration and management projects. One survey of land managers in Orange County found the average size of a restoration treatment is 6 ac.

Several field experiments were conducted to evaluate the performance of pre-emergence herbicides, herbicide rates, and tankmix combinations at different locations in the Central Valley of California and to compare the efficacy of burndown herbicides in mixture with different pre-emergence herbicides...