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

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Update on Automated Weeders

May 20, 2018
By Richard F Smith
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.
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Monitoring for New Problematic Weed Species in Rice

May 4, 2018
From Brian German at AgNet West :: April 17, 2018 California rice growers will need to be on the lookout for two new problematic weed species this year. One of the species is called rough barnyardgrass (Echinochloa muricata) and the other is known as coast cockspur grass (Echinochloa walteri).
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