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

Last Thursday (July 19th) was the 56th annual UC Weed Day at the Davis campus. We had a really good turnout again this year with just under 150 participants including weed science researchers, students, farmers, land managers, pest consultants, and government agency people in attendance.

Today I thought I'd share a recent research report on the the phenomenon of "enhanced" degradation of the herbicide simazine in citrus orchard soils. Click here for a link to the publication in the open-source journal, Air, Soil, and Water Research (Abit et al. 2012.

In conjunction with the USDA Range Management group out of Oregon and many Weed Scientists throughout the western US, a two day field school will focus on improving the management and threat of invasive plants, and especially cheatgrass and medusahead.

A quick repost this morning on the upcoming meeting of the Aquatic Plant Management Society. Invasive aquatic weeds are a huge problem in some river, canal, and lake/pond systems in California and around the world.

I think there's enough blame to go around on this one. http://www.cnn.com/video/?hpt=hp_c2#/video/us/2012/07/11/pkg-mn-lawn-accidentally-killed.kare 1. Employees should have asked the guy about what he needed to do 2.