UC Weed Science (weed control, management, ecology, and minutia)

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A Tale of Two Grasses

April 24, 2017
As you can tell by going through archived blogs on this site, medusahead (Taeniatherum caput-medusae) is an extremely popular grass. Well, an infamous one, perhaps. I am fairly certain that none of us actually like it.
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High Prevalence of Bur Buttercup

April 18, 2017
The weather pattern this year in the Intermountain Region of Northern California has been radically different from what we have seen the previous 4 years. In most years, high pressure usually moves in periodically sending Pacific cold fronts farther north and giving us periods of warm dry weather.
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How does herbicide resistance evolve? An illustrated guide

April 11, 2017
By Whitney B Brim-Deforest
We talk about herbicide resistance all of the time in California rice, but how does it evolve in a field? Understanding how herbicide management selects for resistant populations is an important part of preventing the problem from occurring in your fields.
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