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February Is About Safe Pesticide Use

February 16th, 2022
By Petr Kosina
To raise awareness of pesticide safety practices, February is celebrated as National Safety Education Month. This year the University of California Statewide Integrated Pest Management Program offers help to refresh your knowledge about safe and effective pesticide use.
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Screen from the course, Module 2: How Herbicides Injure Plants with cartoon person and text bubble “Click on each button to learn more”. Person is pointing to the images demonstrating different herbicide transport routes including contact (e.g. paraquat), foliar systemic (e.g. simazine), below ground systemic (e.g. mesotrione), and combination of transport routes (e.g. 2,4-D). Each example is accompanied by a photo of symptoms caused by the given herbicide on prune.
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New online course on diagnosing herbicide injury now available

October 1st, 2021
By Petr Kosina
A brand-new online course on Diagnosing Herbicide Injury focusing on how an herbicide injury situation can arise, what information can help diagnose symptoms during field investigations, and what tools are available to you, is now available from the UC Statewide Integrated Pest Management program (U...
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Stop using Weed Slayer 12/4/2020

December 4th, 2020
By Cheryl A Wilen
THE MESSAGE BELOW IS FROM THE California DEPARTMENT OF FOOD AND AGRICULTURE CDFA ISSUES STOP USE NOTICE AND STATEWIDE QUARANTINE ON ORGANIC FERTILIZER AGRO GOLD WS SACRAMENTO, December 4, 2020 The California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA) today announced that a Stop Use notice and statew...
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