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

It's too cold in Tulelake to work in the field, so I'm stuck writing reports and going to meetings this week. I recently finished summarizing my 2011 onion weed control studies conducted at the Intermountain Research and Extension Center (IREC) in Tulelake.

Western agricultural concerns about weed cost increases center on the growing problem of herbicide resistance. At the recent California Weed Science Society annual meeting in Santa Barbara, Calif.

Abstract: Agricultural weed management has become entrenched in a single tacticherbicideresistant cropsand needs greater emphasis on integrated practices that are sustainable over the long term.

Abstract: Solar tents, which are safe, inexpensive, and easy to construct, can be used to inactivate unwanted weed plant propagative materials, onsite.

Ive noticed a slow and increasing trend lately, the level of communication about weeds has been on the decline. Now I have very little data outside of Southern California to back up my assertion, so I look to you to provide a sense of optimism.