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

April 26, 2017 Contact: Pam Kan-Rice, (510) 206-3476, pam.kanrice@ucanr.edu Three agriculture scholarships offered by UC ANR Three scholarships are being offered to college students majoring in agriculture by the University of California's Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources.

From the UC Rice Blog April 25, 2017 BUTTE, a rice herbicide, has received federal registration in the USA and will be available to California rice growers for the upcoming 2017 season.

As you can tell by going through archived blogs on this site, medusahead (Taeniatherum caput-medusae) is an extremely popular grass. Well, an infamous one, perhaps. I am fairly certain that none of us actually like it.

The weather pattern this year in the Intermountain Region of Northern California has been radically different from what we have seen the previous 4 years. In most years, high pressure usually moves in periodically sending Pacific cold fronts farther north and giving us periods of warm dry weather.

Spinach is susceptible to weed pressure because it is produced on high-density 80-inch wide beds with 18 to 42 seedlines.