March 4, 2025, 8 am – 12:30 pm
@ Woodland Community College
Building 800 Community Room
2300 E. Gibson Road, Woodland
4 hours DPR CE credits requested
3.5 hours CCA CE credits approved
Free event
Lunch included
8:15 AM Introduction
Margaret Lloyd, UCCE Small Farms Advisor, Yolo, Solano Sacramento Counties.
8:25 AM Weed control 101: Why? When? How?
Brad Hanson, UCCE Weed Science Extension Specialist
8:50 AM Fundamental management of weed seed banks
Steve Fennimore, UCCE Weed Science Extension Specialist
9:30 AM In-row weed management in warm season vegetables with smart or simple cultivators
C. Scott Stoddard, UCCE Vegetable Crops Advisor, Merced County
9:50 AM. Break
10:10 AM. Electrical weed control in California organic almond orchards
Tong Zhen, Ph.D. Candidate, UC Davis Plant Sciences
10:35 AM. Native hedgerows as a weed management tool
Justin Valliere, UCCE Specialist in Invasive Weed & Restoration Ecology
10:55 AM. Grower panel and Q & A
Weed management on a diversified farm: Stale seed beds, power harrow and more.
Paul Underhill, Terra Firma Farm
Using steam, occultation and other tools for weed management on small farms.
Hope Sippola, Fiery Ginger Farm
The precision tine harrow: a game changer for large and small-scale vegetable farms.
Jan Velilla, UC Davis Student Farm Manager (formerly Full Belly Farm)
11:40 AM. Equipment Demonstrations: Electric weeder, hand-scale tine harrow, farm-ng Amiga with weeding implements, Terrateck double wheel finger weeder and more
12:15 pm LUNCH
