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

It's that time of year again. Time for egg-nog, time for gingerbread cookies, time for stringing outdoor lights that have become tangled up into a massive, intractable knot, and time for decorating the home and hearth with weeds. What? Weeds? Yes, weeds.

Irrigation is crucial for the production of melons in California. It facilitates seed germination, it is essential for crop growth and fruit production, and, for growers that apply pre-emergence herbicides, it is necessary for product activation.

This blog was originally supposed to be an interesting article on Thanksgiving foods; specifically, a discussion about crops (i.e. squashes, onion, corn, carrots, parsnips, etc...) that traditionally accompany our Thursday turkey, as well as their weedy relatives.

It's that time of the year when we're planning preemergence (aka "residual") herbicide programs for orchard and vineyard crops in California.

Effective this fall (2014) there will be a fairly significant change to the Alion herbicide label for California orchard and vineyard crops.