Field Day: IPM Weed Management Strategies in Row Crops

Join UC Organic Agriculture Institute and UC Cooperative Extension Sutter-Yuba at Park Farming Organics for a Field Day on IPM Weed Management Strategies in Row Crops with a focus on organic strategies. See agenda below for speakers and topics. This field day is offered free of charge and coffee, drinks, and snacks will be provided. Thank you to CDFA OARS and CDFA SOP for the funding to offer this workshop.

Earn CE Credits: 2 hours DPR (Other) Approved; 1 hour IPM CCA and 1 hour Organic CCA requested

Agenda:

8:30 AM  Registration & Sign in

9:00 AM  Welcome and Introduction - Sarah Light, UCCE; Whitney Brim-DeForest, UCCE; Katharina Ullmann, UC OAI

9:15 AM  Weeds: Management vs Eradication  - Sarah Marsh Janish, Rice Advisor, UCCE Colusa 

9:30 AM  No-till straw management and weed emergence under variable irrigation - Whitney Brim-DeForest, Rice and Wild Rice Advisor, UCCE Sutter-Yuba

9:45 AM  Broomrape biology and emerging weed control technologies - Mandeep Singh, Agronomy Advisor, UCCE Capitol Corridor 

10:00 AM  Break

10:15 AM  Pre-Plant Weed Management during Alfalfa Stand Establishment - Sarah Light, Agronomy Advisor, UCCE Sutter-Yuba

10:30 AM  Mechanical Weed Control in Organic Crops - Giuliano Carneiro Galdi, Agronomy and Weed Science, UCCE Merced

10:45 AM  Organic Herbicides for Weed Control - Jorge Angeles, Weed Management Advisor, UCCE Tulare

11:00 AM  Where do the weeds come from? Invasion pathways and protection strategies for organic crops - Sara Ohadi, Agronomy Weed Science Specialist, UC Riverside 

11:15 AM  Equipment for Mechanical Weed Control - Brian Park, Owner, Park Farming Organics

11:30 AM  Evaluations and Wrap Up