- Posted by: Gale Perez
From a PRESS RELEASE from the USDA Office of Communications:
Release No. 0227.14
Contact: Brian Mabry (202)720-4623
USDA Announces Measures to Help Farmers Diversify Weed Control Efforts
WASHINGTON, Oct. 15, 2014 — Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced several steps that the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is taking to address the increase of herbicide resistant weeds in U.S. agricultural systems.
"Weed control in major crops is almost entirely accomplished with herbicides today," said Vilsack. "USDA, working in collaboration with the Environmental Protection Agency, must continue to identify ways to encourage producers to adopt...
- Author: Gale Perez
California Ag Today's Patrick Cavanaugh interviews aquatic weed experts John Madsen (USDA-ARS Exotic & Invasive Weeds Research Unit) and Mike Blankinship (Blankinship & Associates.)
Click links below.
http://ucanr.edu/blogs/UCDWeedScience/blogfiles/25335.mp3 (audio)
- Author: Brad Hanson
A quick post today to share a link to the recently revised "UC IPM Pest Management Guidelines for Olive" (UC ANR Publication #3452). You can download the whole document as a pdf here, or use it online at the above link.
Like the most of the other Pest Management Guidelines (PMGs), there are sections on management of a broad range of pests in olive including insects, mites, nematodes, vertebrate pests, and weeds. Since this is the UC Weed Science blog, here's the link directly to...
- Author: Brad Hanson
UCCE Position Announcement
If you've ever wished you could be a weed scientist with the University of California Cooperative Extension system (and really, who among us hasn't wished that?), this just may be your lucky day!
See the following job description and link for the position of Area Weed Ecology and Cropping Systems Advisor.
-Brad
Area Weed...
- Author: Brad Hanson
Below is a recent press release from the Weed Science Society of America (WSSA) announcing a new fact sheet addressing misconceptions about the so-called "superweeds".
I alluded to this few weeks ago in my post "Can herbicide resistance move from crops to weeds?" when I discussed the potential for gene flow from crops to weeds and how that might or might not affect the development of herbicide-resistant weeds. That earlier post was basically the working draft of background information provided to the WSSA committee that developed this new fact...
