For the past several years, California rice has been dealing with a pesky new weed, weedy rice aka red rice. Weedy rice is a difficult pest to manage, because it is the same species as rice (both are Oryza sativa L.), rendering herbicide use next-to-impossible.
New research published in PNAS (Fusco et al 2019) highlights the role of invasive grasses in creating new wildfire regimes at not just local but regional scales.
A quick link to a Vineyard Team podcast and workshop series on weed control in California winegrape production systems A couple weed control presentations of interest by weed science academics include: John Roncoroni "A new focus on weed management" Scott Steinmaus "Science and controversy of glypho...
