- Author: WSSA
- reposted by: Brad Hanson
Link here for the full WSSA press release
Battling Spurge: WSSA Offers Weed Control Tips for Nurseries and Homeowners
Though the economy and housing market have begun to recover in the aftermath of the Great Recession, one unexpected impact still lingers. Landscape nurseries that saw fewer plant sales during the downturn are now battling weeds entrenched in unsold containers of perennials, shrubs and trees.
Some of the most common...
- Author: Brad Hanson
A repost today from the Australian Herbicide Resistance Initiative. Int this snap shot, AHRI discusses new Monsanto technology called BioDirect (RNAi) for control of glyphosate-resistant weeds with glyphosate.
I'll admit that I don't know enough about this yet to have much a well-formed opinion on this (and I don't want to muck up the internet with a bunch of inaccurate info - ha!) so I'll just share the text and links below.
Brad
AHRIinsight #2
Do Monsanto have the next big thing?
Imagine if...
- Author: Chris McDonald
On Earth Day. Managing weeds is a costly and difficult task. Yet their impacts to the environment are high. Herbicides or hoes cost money and the impacts to the environment when weeds grow unchecked are also significant.
The costs of managing invasive species are staggering. For example, it is estimated that the US spends about $128 billion annually managing invasive species. In 2011 just one federal department, the Department of the Interior (BLM, NPS, FWS, among others), spent $100 million removing invasive species. In the US, herbicide sales are over $5 billion a year, not to mention costs of application equipment, maintenance and labor.
In California over 5 million pounds (of active...
- Author: Brad Hanson
The newest issue of the journal "California Agriculture" (April-June 2013) published by the University of California and UC Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources just came out and has two articles written by UC weed researchers
Check out the whole issue here or the specific articles at the links below.
For switchgrass cultivated as biofuel in California, invasiveness limited by several steps
by Joseph M. DiTomaso, Jacob N....
- Author: Guy B Kyser
In ailanthus territory, you have to be careful not to park for too long in one place.
