Ongoing research

In addition to the well-known rice weeds we deal with every year, there are a couple of weeds I want to bring to your attention this year. One is an invasive and the other has been with us for a while.

A video of last Wednesday's Strip-till Field Day at Marty Poldevarrt's MTSJ Dairy in Orland, CA is now available at You Tube and also at the CASI website. https://youtu.

Following the public field day that took place at the UC Field Station in Five Points, CA on Monday, April 18th, Station Superintendent, Merf Solorio, provided a field interview in which he provided observations of the no-till garbanzo study early in the 2016 season.

There is already a wall on our southern border, apparently, made of arundo (giant cane). This NY Times feature discusses US - Mexico cooperation in tackling the giant grass. Great pictures, too. Arundo is also a big deal in California.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBUdCBxrhZo From NZ no less.

Doom or gloom? Boom or bloom? Today is Earth Day, and millions of folks around the world stopped--at least for a moment--to pay tribute to the 46th annual observance. They planted trees, weeded their gardens, greeted pollinators, or just thought about environmental issues.

6 weekly classes and a Saturday Field Trip to the UC Cooperative Extension High Density Trial 2:00 4:00 pm, Wednesday afternoons located at the San Diego County Farm Bureau, 1670 E. Valley Parkway, Escondido CA 92027 Instructor: Gary Bender Ph,D.

If you poked around all the bug exhibits during the campuswide UC Davis Picnic Day on Saturday, April 16, you probably came away thinking: Bugs rule. In sheer numbers, diversity and special honors.

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Nature isn't perfect, but neither are we! Today we watched a Gulf Fritillary (Agraulis vanillae) laying eggs on her host plant, the passionflower vine (Passiflora) and another Gulf Fritillary nectaring on the nearby Jupiter's Beard (Centranthus ruber). Ms.