- Author: Richard Smith
- Author: Michael D Cahn
- Posted by: Gale Perez
Richard Smith is the Vegetable Crop Production and Weed Science Farm Advisor and Michael Cahn is the Irrigation and Water Resources Farm Advisor. Both are with the University of California Cooperative Extension in Monterey County.
Cultural practices for producing lettuce are changing with the development of new technologies and with the advent of new economic pressures. The shortage of labor has spurred development and adoption of...
- Author: Jaspreet Sidhu
- Posted by: Gale Perez
Jaspreet Sidhu is the UC Cooperative Extension Vegetable Crops Farm Advisor in Kern County.
Glyphosate, a popular non-selective herbicide is widely used in agriculture to provide cost-effective, broad-spectrum weed control in more than 100 crops. It is also one of the most heavily used herbicides in Kern County in crops such as almonds, grapes, alfalfa, etc. The proximity of potato fields planted to glyphosate treated areas/crops increases the potential for damage to potato crop due to herbicide drift. The most common ways that potatoes can be exposed to glyphosate are through...
/span>- Author: Konrad Mathesius
- Posted by: Gale Perez
Controlling Italian Ryegrass in California Small Grains Field Day
Thursday, April 21, 2022, 8:45 a.m.–10:45 a.m.
POSTPONED to Friday, April 22, 2022, 8:45 a.m.–10:45 a.m.
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- Author: Rebecca Ozeran
In January I visited a small property to help identify various plants that had taken over an acre of unirrigated land. The property owner wanted to know how to manage the weeds, and if horses could safely graze them. Among some residual annual grasses, there was a surprising amount of mallow, already forming enormous mounds of leaves and stems.
Since January, mallow - little mallow (Malva parviflora; pictured above), and/or common mallow (M. neglecta) - continues to show up, not only in small pastures and rangelands, but also along roads and in urban areas in Fresno County. In my 5 years in the region, I have never noticed mallow dominating quite as much as I've seen it this year. It seems that our...
- Posted by: Gale Perez
The California Department of Food and Agriculture, Plant Health Division's Integrated Pest Control Branch is recruiting to fill an Associate Governmental Program Analyst in its Sacramento office.
Under the...