- Author: Whitney Brim-DeForest
- Editor: Consuelo Baez Vega
- Editor: Taiyu Guan
- Author: Gale Perez
Coming out of 2022, where roughly half of all California rice fields were left fallowed last year, and others may have been fallowed for two seasons, many of us have questions about what weed management will look like in 2023. While we do not have data on what a 1- or 2-year fallow does to all of our major weed species, we have some preliminary and anecdotal data that might lend some insight.
For small-seeded weeds such as smallflower umbrella sedge, redstem, and ricefield bulrush, the fallow period will likely have no effect. A good anecdotal example is from a field in Davis that was planted for a long time in rice, followed by nothing being planted for over 10 years. Once the field went back into rice, ricefield bulrush was...
- Posted by: Gale Perez
Have you registered for...
Weed Day 2023 link :: https://wric.ucdavis.edu/events/weed_day_2023.html
Weed Science School 2023 link :: https://wric.ucdavis.edu/events/weed_science_school_2023.html
- Posted by: Gale Perez
Just published in the Weed Technology journal...
Herbicide Screening for Weed Control and Crop Safety in California Melon Production
Authors: Travis M.Bean, Scott Stoddard, Lynn M. Sosnoskie, Adewale Osipitan, Pratap Devkota, Guy B. Kyser and Bradley D. Hanson
Abstract
Weed management in cantaloupe and other melon crops, is important to maximize fruit yield; however, there are few registered herbicides available in California. Several independent herbicide trials were conducted at University of California...
- Author: Bradley Hanson
Reposted from Sac Valley Orchards (article here or landing page here)
I recently participated in a UCCE meeting focused on orchard management decision making when times are hard. This was in the context of the current low walnut prices facing producers in the state, but given the cyclic nature of agriculture could easily apply to other perennial crops as the ups and downs of agricultural commodities respond to domestic...
- Author: Pamela Kan-Rice
- Posted by: Gale Perez
David W. Cudney, UC Cooperative Extension specialist emeritus, passed away in Riverside on March 30. He was 82.
Cudney joined UCCE in 1964 as a farm advisor for Imperial County. In 1978, he became a UCCE weed science specialist for Southern California, based at UC Riverside. While working as a specialist, he earned his Ph.D. from UC Riverside in 1989.
In 1992, Cudney and six Extension specialist colleagues from all over the western United States, published Weeds of the West, a guide book to identifying weeds in Arizona, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah,...
