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

Over the last few years, several of my UC Davis, CSU-Fresno, and USDA-ARS collaborators and I have been involved in research related to using steam heat to thermally disinfest soil as an alternative to methyl bromide fumigation.

Recently I was reminded that there is no more important fundamental to weed control than being able to identify your weed problem. This summer, I moved to a different house and have slowly been working on little projects that arise.

If youve ever taken target practice, you probably know that accuracy and precision are not necessarily the same things a rifle that always shoots low and to the left of the bulls-eye is precise but is not accurate. The same idea holds true for herbicide applications.

On November 9, weed biology and management information will be presented at the Salinas Valley Weed School 2010 (contact: Richard Smith). For more information check the calendar section at the UC Cooperative ExtensionMonterey County website. http://cemonterey.ucdavis.

*This was an article that Doug Munier and I put together and tweaked for a couple orchard crop newsletters in summer/fall 2010. I thought I'd repost it here for posterity...