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

So far, this year is beginning to look like a strong El Nino weather pattern throughout much of California. The last time we had a very strong El Nino was the winter of 1997-1998.

A colleague shared the following with me (thanks Sue!) During the 2015 Sonoma Grape Expo, John Roncoroni addresses Weed Control in the North Coast.

Cal-IPC, in partnership with toxicologist Susan Kegley of the Pesticide Research Institute, has published a new manual on "Best Management Practices (BMPs) for Wildland Stewardship: Protecting Wildlife When Using Herbicides for Invasive Plant Management.

March 16, 2016. Editor's note. I recently was informed of an error in the chart Lynn included in this post from December 2018. While Broadworks (ai = mesotrione) herbicide IS registered in several stonefruit crops, it is NOT currently registered for use in peach. This was entirely my error.

This salsola scene reminds me of Alexander Nevsky's battle on the ice, or maybe Rimsky-Korsakov's "Flight of the Tumbleweed"...