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• Can whole orchard recycling suppress weed establishment in new orchards?

  Added December 9, 2024
  

  by Becky Wheeler-Dykes, UCCE Glenn Orchard Systems and Weed Ecology Farm Advisor Recent research has shown many potential benefits of utilizing whole orchard recycling (WOR) when removing an orchard. Instead of burning the wood produced in orchard...

• Chemigation best practices for branched broomrape control in CA processing tomato

  Added December 9, 2024
  

  Branched broomrape (Phelipanche ramosa) is of growing concern to California tomato and specialty crop and seed producers. It is an obligate root holoparasite that gains all of its nutrients from the host crop and its unique biology means it spends the...

• Electrical Weed Control (EWC) in Organic Almonds and Blueberries – Research Update

  Added November 25, 2024
  

  Two years ago, I shared my first blog about the Zasso electrical weed control (EWC) unit—a tractor-mounted device powered by the tractor's PTO. (My first blog about the basic of EWC and unit specifications In spring 2023, we established two...