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Research Update: Efficacy of mechanical and chemical preseason control of herbicide-resistant Italian ryegrass
Reposted from the UCANR Sacramento Valley Field Crops blog Summary Note Mechanical cultivation is a useful tool in controlling herbicide-resistant Italian ryegrass individuals in a rainfed wheat system but is only about half as effective as...
Giant tumbleweeds eat Victorville
A new species of gigantic tumbleweed once predicted to go extinct is not only here to stay -- it's likely to expand its territory. The species, Salsola ryanii, is significantly larger than either of its parent plants, which can grow up to 6 feet tall. A...
Commandos from Cannon Air Force Base, N.M., clear tumbleweeds from a residential area in Clovis, N.M., 2014. U.S. Air Force/Senior Airman Ericka Engblom
Steve Fennimore Receives Fulbright Scholar Award to Work in Uruguay on Weed Management in Organic Vegetable Production
The U.S. Department of State and the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board are pleased to announce that Steven Fennimore of the University of California, Davis, has received a Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program award to work in Uruguay in...
Summer Annual Weeds
As the summer heat is finally nearing its end, and its officially fall on the calendar, there unfortunately is a new crop of weeds flowering right now. Some of our summer annuls have started to go to seed, others are just about ready, and others are...
Addressing the Science Surrounding Glyphosate
From the Pests in the Urban Landscape blog :: Sept. 23, 2019 ANR: Agricultural and Natural Resources *********** UC ANR's charge is research and extension and we provide guidance about how to manage weeds using registered pesticides and by...
