Do you want to control your rangeland weeds without using herbicides? Check out the new manual called, Best Management Practices for Non-Chemical Weed Control, a collaboration between the University of California Cooperative Extension and California Invasive Plant Council.
If you don't already have a copy of Weeds of California and Other Western States, here's your chance to get it at lowest price I've seen: $45.00 (this price is good through May 6, 2021.
Yellow Starthistle is a plant of Old-World origin that arrived in California in the mid 1800's. It is believed that it made its way to California in contaminated alfalfa seed from Europe.
From Farm Progress (https://www.farmprogress.com/weeds/international-effort-combat-crop-threatening-weeds) ************** Anne Manning | Apr 22, 2021 Every multi-acre farmer and backyard gardener knows weeds are a constant, formidable foe of successful plant production.
From Western FarmPress Written by Todd Fitchette | Apr 20, 2021 California rice growers with troublesome patches of weedy rice, or red rice, may want to take advantage of the drought and low water allocations to fallow those fields with known populations of the plant.