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

The preliminary agenda for the Aquatic Plant Management Society Annual Meeting, July 17-20 2016, has been posted on the APMS website at http://apms.org/annual-meeting/2016-annual-meeting/. The APMS annual meeting will be held at the Amway Grand Hotel in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

Elise Gornish, Josh Davy, Travis Bean, and I are testing the use of sheep for management of late-season invasive annual grasses. This trial is taking place at five sites at the Hopland Research and Extension Center two with barb goatgrass, two with medusahead, and one mixed.

Each of us have the entire blueprint for our bodies contained in every cell, and the same is true of plants. This information is stored in the form of an extremely long molecule known as DNA (in human cells its length is ~6 feet).

We ran the robovator in twin row processing tomato yesterday in the Westside of the San Joaquin Valley (see photo). We conducted intra-row cultivation at up to 5 mph without damage to tomato.

This is the abstract and a poster from a presentation that I made at the 2016 Weed Science Society of America meeting in San Juan, PR. The results were generated from one run of each of the experiments.