- Author: Gale Perez
At this week’s Monday Afternoon Weeders (MAW) meeting, Brad Hanson shared the following article from the Sacramento Bee: Stinkwort's fast growth could threaten California's wine growers
CBS picked up the story: Wine Country Growers Worried about Stinky Invasive Weed
Then there’s Jeannette Warnert’s blog post, Unwelcome weed 'stinkwort' spreading quickly in California.
Lastly, here is the
- Author: Jeannette E. Warnert
Stinkwort made its first California appearance in 1994, but remained quite rare...
- Author: Guy B Kyser
The Sacramento Bee features a nice front-page spread on stinkwort today, with interviews with Joe DiTomaso and John Roncoroni. Sticky, hairy, and smelly (the weed, that is). What's not to love? Also a photo from one of Rachel Brownsey's plots.
http://www.sacbee.com/2013/08/12/5642385/stinkworts-fast-growth-could-threaten.html
- Author: Brad Hanson
Kassim Al-Khatib, Director of the UC-Statewide Integrated Pest Management (UC-IPM) Program, sent a couple links about the identification of Palmer amaranth and comparison to other amaranth (pigweed) species. I thought they were useful and potentially of interest to California weed managers so I thought I'd share:
In this first link, Dr Bill Johnson and Travis Legleiter, weed scientists from Purdue University have a video explanation for helping growers identify Palmer amaranth and explain differences between other related species in Indiana (click here for...
- Author: Richard Smith
- Author: Steven Tjosvold
2010-2011 Roadside Weed Control Evaluation with Organic and Conventional Herbicides
Richard Smith and Steve Tjosvold, Farm Advisors
University of California Cooperative Extension, Monterey and Santa Cruz Counties
A trial was established near Bonny Doon, California (in the Santa Cruz mountains). The objective of the trial was to screen alternative roadside herbicides in the wake of the ban on the use of glyphosate for roadside weed control imposed by the Santa Cruz County board of supervisors in 2005. The plots were in an area that had large population of French broom. Other weeds present...