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Can Artificial Intelligence Help Growers Win the Weed Wars?
From the Weed Science Society of America (WSSA) HEADLINES • March 17, 2021 * * * * * * * * * * * WESTMINSTER, Colorado – March 17, 2021 – Weed control in vegetables, flowers and herbs can be incredibly labor intensive, experts with the Weed Science Society of America (WSSA)...
2020 Evaluations of automated weeders in lettuce production
Elizabeth Mosqueda is an Assistant Professor at the California State University, Monterey Bay. Richard Smith is a Vegetable Crop Production and Weed Science Farm Advisor with UC Cooperative Extension. Steve Fennimore is a Cooperative Extension Weed Specialist at UC...
Fennimore receives 2020 EurAgEng Outstanding Paper Award
Steve Fennimore, UC Davis Plant Sciences faculty member and UC Cooperative Extension weed specialist, and colleagues received the 2020 EurAgEng Outstanding Paper Award for the paper, “Crop Signalling: A Novel Crop Recognition Technique for Robotic Control,” which was published...
Vegetable weeder is demonstrated at Weed Day at UC Davis. (photo credit: Bob Johnson)
Save The Date! The 3rd Annual Merced County UAV/Ag Technology Field Day on July 15th
Mark your calendar! July 15, 2019 The 3rd Annual UAV/Ag Technology Field Day Presented by UC Cooperative Extension, Merced County 9am to 11:30am (CE registration begins at 8:30am) Bowles Farming Headquarters 11609 Hereford Road, Los Banos, CA...
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Update on Automated Weeders
In vegetable production, growers cultivate most of the bed leaving only a 4-inch wide uncultivated band around the seedline. Weeds not controlled by preemergent herbicides or cultural practices in the uncultivated band are ultimately controlled by hand. Labor costs have increased and availability...
