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

Horseweed and hairy fleabane are closely related annual weeds that are widespread in Central Valley orchards and vineyards where many populations have evolved resistance to glyphosate.

At this weeks Monday Afternoon Weeders (MAW) meeting, Brad Hanson shared the following article from the Sacramento Bee: Stinkwort's fast growth could threaten California's wine growers CBS picked up the story: Wine Country Growers Worried about Stinky Invasive Weed Then theres Jeannette Warnerts blo...

UC Cooperative Extension experts are advocating for aggressive control of invasive stinkwort to prevent it from becoming an established California weed, reported the Sacramento Bee.

A followup today on a post from last October about a series of glyphosate-resistant weed extension publications that were "about to be finalized". These four paper finally wound their way through the review and publication process and were posted on the UC ANR Catalog last week.

This is the last in my series of posts outlining current University of California weed science research published in the California Weed Science Society (CWSS) Research Update and News (June 2013, Volume 9, #2).