- Author: Tong Zhen
- Author: Bradley Hanson
- Posted by: Gale Perez
Tong Zhen is a Ph.D. student in the Hanson Lab at UC Davis.
Non-chemical weed control usually is based on physical methods (e.g. tillage or mowing) or thermal methods such as propane flaming or steam. Electric Weed Control (EWC) is another thermal method that passes electrical current through target plants and the heat generated by electrical resistance damages plant cells. With funding from the Organic Agriculture Research and Extension Initiative (OREI), we recently initiated new research with collaborators at Oregon State University and Cornell University to evaluate an electrical weed control device in orchard and berry crops.
- Author: Thomas Getts
What is your favorite condiment for a Memorial Day brat? My childhood friend, with family roots in Wisconsin, told me there is only one choice.... mustard! And mustard flowers certainly have painted the landscape the intermountain region this year. Yellow flowers of all shades blooming in pastures, rangelands and hayfields are making their presence felt!
Photo One:A few tumble mustard plants in the foreground, with a monoculture of flixweed in dryland pasture in the background.
Over the past six springs, I've lived in northeast California winter annual mustards grow consistently with some years being worse than others. Alfalfa fields often are infested with shepard's purse, flixweed, and tumble mustard. Dryland...
- Author: Lee Allen
- Posted by: Gale Perez
From Page 13 of the Western Farm Press (May 2022) magazine
Electric weed control takes hold in orchards
By Lee Allen (Contributing writer)
Sometimes it takes a long time for an idea to be embraced by the public. Take electric weed control, a concept first patented in 1890, yet it hadn't received much attention until a few decades ago.
“Even if current ways still work, new ways are inevitable because they may...
- Author: Rachael Freeman Long
- Author: Morgan P. Doran
- Author: Robert Poppenga
- Author: Daniel H. Putnam
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From the Alfalfa & Forage News blog (April 29, 2022)
Vetch (Vicia spp.) is growing like a weed everywhere this year, carpeting our hills with great swaths of purple flowers.
What is vetch? There are several species that are commonly grown as crops, cover crops or weeds (see list at the bottom). Vetch is a winter-hardy legume that's favored by early fall rains, which we had lots of last October (5.5-in in 24-hr in Sacramento). Vetch is also a nitrogen-fixing...
- Author: Zheng Wang
- Posted by: Gale Perez
From page 26 of the Progressive Crop Consultant (March/April 2022) magazine.
Zheng Wang is the UC Cooperative Extension Vegetable Crops and Irrigation Advisor for Stanislaus County.
