- Author: Jim Catalano
- Posted by: Gale Perez
From the Cornell Chronicle--June 22, 2022
Farmers can tailor their efforts to control weeds more effectively by pinpointing when a particular weed will emerge, according to a new Cornell study.
Researchers in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences reviewed past studies on the peak timing of emergence for 15 troublesome weed species in the Northeast, as well as potential ways to use this knowledge, in their study,
- Posted by: Gale Perez
TUNE IN LIVE to The IPM Hour on Wed., February 9, 2022 at noon Pacific.
Speaker: Doug Johnson from the California Invasive Plant Council (Cal-IPC)
Topic: Managing Invasive Plants in Wildlands Requires an IPM Approach on Several Fronts
One is prevention, which can be aided by evaluating which species pose a high risk of becoming harmful in the future. Another is selecting the best control techniques for a given management situation. Cal-IPC has projects addressing both of these needs: one project teams with...
- Posted by: Gale Perez
Our friend Lynn Sosnoskie (at Cornell University) shared the following announcement with us:
A free (downloadable) resource
Manage Weeds on Your Farm – A Guide to Ecological Strategies
Manage-Weeds-on-Your-Farm.pdf (sare.org)
Manage Weeds On Your Farm - SARE
“I am most pleased to share the good news that our long-awaited...
- Posted by: Gale Perez
The latest information on weed control will be presented at the Weed Management in Agronomic Crops for a Changing Environment online event on Monday, Nov. 15, 2021 from 9:00 AM-12:00 PM (Pacific Time.) The lineup of UC Cooperative Extension (UCCE), UC Davis and Fresno State experts will discuss why we see horseweed and hairy fleabane in most parts of California year-round, herbicide trials in drill-seeded rice, integrated weed management for water-seeded rice, Italian ryegrass control in small grains, cover crops and weed management, and alternatives for managing weeds in alfalfa within changing pesticide regulations.
“We are dealing with a variety of pressing issues in...
- Author: O. Adewale Osipitan
- Author: Bradley Hanson
- Author: Yaakov Goldwasser
- Author: Matthew Fatino
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From the California Agriculture 75(2):64-73. https://doi.org/10.3733/ca.2021a0012
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Abstract
Branched broomrape (Phelipanche ramosa), a parasitic weed that was the focus of a $1.5 million eradication effort four decades ago in California, has recently re-emerged in tomato fields in several Central Valley counties. Processing tomatoes are important to the California agricultural economy; the state produced over 90% of the 12 million tons of tomatoes grown in...
