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

Yesterday, the Weed Science Society of America honored several members for their outstanding contributions to the Society and the discipline. Among the awardees this year was, Dr. Joe DiTomaso, Professor and Cooperative Extension Specialist at UC Davis.

From the Sacramento Valley Field Crops blog (published on February 6, 2017.) Author: Konrad Mathesius Hello Growers and Members of the Ag Community, I'm Konrad Mathesius (Muh-tay-zee-us), the new agronomy advisor for Yolo, Sacramento, and Solano counties.

I wanted to share some initial results from some medusahead trials I implemented this past year. Most of you are probably familiar with the invasive winter annual grass medusahead. If you follow this blog there have been numerous medusahead postings over the past years.

Objectives To provide quantitative information on pesticide loadings from the Sacramento and the San Joaquin watersheds into the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta waterways using the Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT).

We are in the midst of a new and changing era of Worker Protection Standards (WPS). The U.S.