- Author: Brad Hanson
A reminder to all who registered already that the 57th Annual UC Davis Weed Day is this Thursday (July 11th). I've attached the agenda for the morning field tour and the afternoon presentation schedule at the end of this post.
If you haven't already registered, you're too late - we've filled up the buses, lunch, and the conference room capacity (we max out at about 150 for this event). However, be sure to put the 58th conference on your calender for NEXT YEAR - July 17, 2014.
We appreciate and acknowledge the sponsors for this event:...
- Author: Brad Hanson
A link today to an article in the newest issue of the California Weed Science Society (CWSS) Research Update and News. (June 2013, Vol 9, Number 2) edited by UC Farm Advisor Steve Orloff.
This issue has an article entitled: "Invasive stinkwork (Dittrichia graveolens) is spreading quickly in California" by Joe DiTomaso and Rachel Brownsey. This article is a distillation of a couple years of research that Rachel did while completing her MS degree at UC Davis. A more comprehensive report on her research has also been published in the journal California Agriculture...
- Author: Brad Hanson
I received an extension question this week about controlling bamboo that I thought I'd share.
In essence, the situation was that one neighbor had a large stand of bamboo on the property line and, because it is a "running" rather than "clumping" type of bamboo, it was invading the other neighbor's side of the property line. Bamboo neighbor likes the bamboo and the privacy afforded by the stand, other neighbor does not like bamboo creeping into their lawn and landscape. The question was "how do I control the invading bamboo without killing the whole (clonal) stand?".
They had been cutting the invadors and spraying the shoots with glyphosate with...
- Author: Brad Hanson
A quick blog post today to share a recent edition of "TechLine - Invasive Plant News" that I was forwarded recently.
The Spring 2013 issue of the Western Range and Wildlands edition features an article by Celestine Duncan entitled "Protecting the Merced River Canyon from Invasive Plants - Yosemite National Park and Interagency Partners Tackle Yellow Starthistle". The combination of yellow starthistle and the national park system presents a interesting challenge for weed...
- 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....
