- Author: Rebecca Ozeran
In the job listing for my position, weed identification and management were never explicitly mentioned. “Natural resource efforts” in the listing only mentioned water, forage, soils and “the wide array of issues” relating to rangeland ecosystem services. Of course, pests are an issue relating to rangeland ecosystem services (healthy water, soil, and air; biodiversity; etc.), but when I first joined UCCE, I did not expect to spend a large amount of time on weeds.
Now I know, a year and a half in, an incoming phone call is more likely to relate to weed management than to any other topic. Ranch visits for any purpose will usually include a discussion of weedy species on the property. While weed management is...
- Author: Rebecca Ozeran
As a livestock and natural resources advisor, I don't expect to get questions about fruit trees such as figs. As it turns out, I recently needed to know just enough about figs to provide information on how to kill them - a west Fresno County landowner contacted me to ask how he could get rid of some fig trees that were threatening his belowground water pipelines.
Before writing this post, I did my due diligence and confirmed that no one has already discussed fig trees as the target of weed control on this blog. The only mentions of fig trees in the UC Weed Science blog history are a listing of approved herbicides to control weeds in California subtropical crops as of 2 years ago1 and a mention that fig was one of...
- Author: Gale Perez
Knocking Out Noxious Weeds on Rangelands
11/9/2016 • Woodland, CA
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11/17/2016 • Fresno, CA
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12/14/2016 • Susanville, CA
The direct annual cost to monitor and control invasive plants in California is $82 million, and the indirect economic impacts are even larger. Join the fight to reduce noxious weeds and get trained at the 2016 Workshop Series!
- Highlights of cost-effective approaches that...
- Posted by: Gale Perez
The latest issue of Farm Advisor's Update is out (Sept. 2016.)
Here are the articles in the Sept. issue:
- Fall is a Good Time to Think about Weed Control
- Cleaning and Winterizing Spray Equipment
- Parker 3-Step: Digging Way Back in the Files for Range Trends
- Intermountain Alfalfa Weevil Resistance to Pyrethroid Insecticides Confirmed
- Current Research Projects
- Upcoming Events
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Tom Getts is the UC Cooperative Extension Weed...
- Author: Guy B Kyser
Elise Gornish, Josh Davy, Travis Bean, and I are testing the use of sheep for management of late-season invasive annual grasses. This trial is taking place at five sites at the Hopland Research and Extension Center – two with barb goatgrass, two with medusahead, and one mixed.
Treatments include grazing at boot stage (32 sheep-days on 324 m2), revegetation with native spp vs forage spp, and treatment with low or high rates of glyphosate at tillering, boot stage, and heading. The main plots are 18 m x 36 m including an 18 x 18 grazing enclosure and are replicated three times at each site. All treatments are crossed, for a total of 48 subplots in each main plot.
Grazing was conducted from mid-April to...