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

The giant invasive grass arundo (Arundo donax), one of the weeds targeted under the USDA-ARS-funded Delta Region Areawide Aquatic Weed Project (DRAAWP), has been re-acquainted with one of its natural enemies imported from arundo's native range.

Annual bluegrass is a common winter growing grass in agricultural and urban environments. It is a well-known weed of turfgrass systems but its ability to grow in a range of environments makes it an increasing problem for other agricultural systems.

A quick note to share a link to our (semi) regularly updated "Herbicide Registration on California Tree and Vine Crops". Click here for a link to the PDF version on the Weed Research and Information Center page (this is probably your best bet for the most up-to-date version).

A position announcement I shared in October (http://ucanr.edu/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=22336) was re-released last week. The new search ends on April 18, 2017. Job announcement for the Associate Director / Field Research Coordinator for the Western Region IR-4 Program.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), poisoning is the number one cause of injury-related death in the United States, and 1073 people in California were poisoned by pesticides in 2014 alone.