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

Athough not specifically a weed science opportunity, I wanted to repost an announcement for the 2012 University of California Cooperative Extension Horticulture Almond Internship Program.

The 2012 Western Society of Weed Science recently published its annual Research Progress Reports. The full set of progress reports are available online at: http://www.wsweedscience.org/Secure/editor/ResearchReports_Archive.

The development of improved cultivation technology for row crop production has been an active area of research, and has made significant progress in recent years. Currently, standard cultivation removes weeds from the majority of the bed using sweeps, knives, coulters and blades.

After writing an article about natural herbicides in the December issue of this newsletter, I was asked what I thought about the iron HEDTA (FeHEDTA) herbicides that recently came on the market. These are organically acceptable products believed to have minimal human health or environmental effects.

The Weed Research and Information Center previously produced three instructional videos intended for the general public, or more specifically, the Master Gardener program. These videos focused on weed identification tools, principles of urban weed control, and urban weed control tools.