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

Sutter County grows between 300 and 800 acres of fresh-market honeydew, mixed melon and cantaloupe each year. The fields vary between furrow and drip irrigation, with many fields in the Sutter Basin only receiving a pre-irrigation.

Article also published in California Weed Science Society Journal (March 2021 issue) -Brad In a previous article we gave a general background of branched broomrape (Phelipanche ramosa), a parasitic weed which was the focus of a $1.

Richard Smith is the UC Cooperative Extension Vegetable Crop Production and Weed Science Farm Advisor in Monterey, Santa Cruz and San Benito counties. Automated weeders remove weeds inside the three- to five-inch-wide uncultivated band left around the seedline by standard cultivation.

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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.