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

Dear California Weeders I just received this from Mark Siemens U of Arizona. Robovator the automated weeder has been recognized by ASABE. This technology has room to run and many fewer constraints than do herbicides.

A quick plug for anyone interested in attending the 2018 Western Society of Weed Science Conference in a couple weeks. This year the conference location has rotated back to California and will be held at the Hyatt Regency Orange County (in Garden Grove, CA). Meeting dates are March 12-15, 2018.

Several researchers in the UCD weed science program have been working on various aspects of glyphosate-resistant junglerice (Echinochloa colona) for the past few years.

The latest issue of Farm Advisor's Update is out (Feb. 2018.) The newsletter is written by Tom Getts (UC Cooperative Extension Weed Ecology/Cropping Systems Advisor in Lassen-Modoc-Plumas-Sierra counties.

Last year about this time, I posted a blog regarding an ongoing trial investigating various herbicides for Pre-emergent Control of Medusahead. I wanted to follow up on that trial which I deemed unsuccessful and share some of the data collected in 2017.