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

Seth Watkins shared the following article with me--thanks Seth. To see the actual article, visit https://agresearchmag.ars.usda.gov/2017/dec/drone/.

Glyphosate is one of the most widely used herbicides in the world and is extremely important in many of our orchard, vineyard, and annual crops as well as in non-crop and home situations.

We were sampling plots in the Delta in July 2016, and found a small clump of this plant pickerelweed (Pontederia cordata).

Aerial drones are cool. But they can't do everything (just yet). Here are a couple tidbits of information you should consider if you are thinking about getting one (or more) to help you with your weed scouting or plan to use it for herbicide application.

I have only received one weed-related farm call in my two seasons as the vegetable crop advisor in Colusa, Sutter and Yuba counties. In early August 2017, one of the melon PCAs I work with called me up to tell me about a grassy weed in a fresh-market honeydew field.