- (Public Value) UCANR: Safeguarding abundant and healthy food for all Californians
- Author: Whitney Brim-DeForest
- Author: Roberta Firoved
- Posted by: Gale Perez
SUPPRESS® herbicide EC, a product manufactured by Westbridge Agricultural Products, was registered in California in 2015. Its active ingredients are Caprylic Acid and Capric Acid. It is registered for use in organic production, and it is labeled for use in “agricultural food and non-food crops”. In rice, it can be utilized only when the field is drained (no standing water allowed).
Since 2019, UCCE Rice Advisor Whitney Brim-DeForest has been testing SUPPRESS® herbicide for use in weed control in rice. In 2019, she collaborated with Jim Cook (Colusa County Farm Supply), to spot spray weedy rice in a field containing Type 3 (long awns, straw hulled). The application was made with a handheld backpack sprayer, at...
- Posted by: Gale Perez
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- Posted by: Gale Perez
With COVID-19, we've had to skip hosting in-person field day events and come up with creative ways to extend research results and information.
Here's Zheng Wang (UC Cooperative Extension Vegetable Crops Advisor in Stanislaus County) taking us on a field walk to discuss his research projects which include weed management in basil [VIDEO].
More information on Zheng's...
- Author: Kristin Burns
- Posted by: Gale Perez
Steve Fennimore, UC Davis Plant Sciences faculty member and UC Cooperative Extension weed specialist, and colleagues received the 2020 EurAgEng Outstanding Paper Award for the paper, “Crop Signalling: A Novel Crop Recognition Technique for Robotic Control,” which was published in Biosystems Engineering.
The research represents a breakthrough in differentiating weeds from crops using machine vision systems. The technology could help California growers address challenges...
- Author: Whitney Brim-DeForest
- Posted by: Gale Perez
The UCCE Rice Team is conducting a field survey to collect watergrass samples over the next few weeks. The samples will be grown out in the greenhouse to help us start figuring out the identification and phenotypic characteristics (how to distinguish one from another) for the watergrass species found in California rice fields. The hope is that this will give us data for developing chemical and non-chemical management plans for watergrass, similar to what we have been working on with weedy rice over the past few years.
The project was funded by the California Rice Research Board, and is led by Whitney Brim-DeForest (UCCE Sutter-Yuba) and
