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

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People who work on farms wear personal protective equipment to protect themselves from COVID-19, pesticides, dust and other health hazards.
UC Weed Science (weed control, management, ecology, and minutia): Article

PPE in short supply for farm work during the COVID-19 crisis

April 22, 2020
By Whitney B Brim-Deforest
While most Californians are staying home to slow the spread of the novel coronavirus, California farmers, farmworkers and other agricultural professionals are out in the fields and packing houses working to produce food.
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Figure 5. Leaf twisting and curling were just as prevalent in the 2nd planting.

Residual Road Herbicide and Replanted Tomatoes

April 21, 2020
By Clifford S Stoddard
Last summer, I was called out to view what appeared to be a herbicide drift incidence in a commercial tomato field. The leaves of affected plants were distorted with cupping and twisting that is characteristic of the growth regulator herbicides such as 2,4-D and dicamba (Figure 1).
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