Posts Tagged: weed publication

WSSA educational materials about weeds and their impact

The Weed Science Society of America (WSSA) announced earlier this month several new or updated educational publications about weeds and weed impacts that will be of interest to both the scientific community as well as the general public. Click here for the press release and an overview of the...

Turfgrass: To Keep or Not to Keep?

After four years of drought, turfgrass has taken a beating. Some people have turned off the water—the turf has turned into a few patches of grass, but mostly weeds, if anything is growing at all (Figure 1.) Others have reduced irrigation amount or frequency resulting in sparse grass and more...

UC-IPM Avocado Pest Management Guide updated and republished

A quick post today to share a link to the recently revised "UC IPM Pest Management Guidelines for Avocado" (UC ANR Publication #3436).  You can download the whole document as a pdf here, or use it online at the above link Although there are also well-written sections on general avocado pest...

Control of Willowherb in California's North Coast Vineyards (from CWSS Research Update and News)

Reposted with permission from the January 2014 issue of "CWSS Research Update and News", a semiannual publication by the California Weed Science Society.  Check out that issue for several other interesting research and extension articles.  Take care, Brad   Control of...

2013 Tulelake Onion Weed Control Study- Making the most with a limited toolbox

Happy New Year! It’s too cold in Tulelake for field work, so I’m busy summarizing 2013 research results. Today I posted a progress report on the Intermountain Research and Extension Center (IREC) website summarizing results for our 2013 onion weed control research. The study...

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