- Author: Weed's News
[Packaging Digest 10 Oct 2013] — United States produce industry leader, Tanimura & Antle has had its greenhouse grown butter lettuce independently certified as Pesticide Residue Free. Lettuce packages will feature a new certification mark alerting shoppers to this unique product benefit. Tanimura & Antle is the first to obtain this certification for greenhouse grown lettuce. "Our greenhouse operation uses minimal controls in the growing cycle, as the growing environment is closed and generally pest free," according to Diana McClean, director of marketing for Tanimura & Antle. "This certification independently assures consumers that our greenhouse grown lettuce does...
- Author: Cheryl Reynolds
Pesticide Application Equipment and Calibration givesan overview of many types of pesticide application equipment and provides a step-by-step approach to calibrating each to help you apply the correct amount of pesticide to a treatment area. Included are modules on calibrating liquid...
- Author: Brad Hooker
- Posted by: Gale Perez
Tom Lanini is a fisherman first and foremost. Yet since 1978 he has devoted his time and energy to being a Cooperative Extension specialist at UC Davis, fighting the weeds that plague farmers across California. And with his retirement last spring, he has returned full time to his first passion, fishing.
In his career at UC Davis he occasionally mixed both pursuits, such as long ago when he and a couple colleagues went up to Twin Lakes in the Central Sierras to write a research paper and in their downtime they snuck in some fishing. And he once pushed the physical limits of Cooperative Extension Specialist Joe DiTomaso. Both graduate students at UC Davis, the two snow skied several miles and hiked several more to a remote fishing...
- Author: Gale Perez
Yes, there is life beyond weeds. Anyone who has met Tom Lanini knows he is an avid fisherman, Joe DiTomaso is a chef, and Brad Hanson brews beer BUT did you know...
Michelle Le Strange (UCCE Farm Advisor)
- Author: Julie Finzel
I had the privilege of attending and participating in the Weed Research and Information Center's 2013 Weed Science School. This biannual event proved to be exactly what I was expected...two and a half days packed full of really helpful and useful information and demonstrations.
The first day we got started around 12:30 and received instruction on general plant biology and herbicide absorption, translocation, and metabolism. These presentations were followed by information on the different mechanisms through which herbicides work to control weeds including lipid and amino acid synthesis inhibitors, cell division, and cell wall inhibitors, growth regulators, and photosynthetic, pigment synthesis inhibitors, and free radical...