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

The Spring 2012 edition of the Sacramento Valley Walnut News was recently made available at the Sutter-Yuba Cooperative Extension office. It's available here and is attached at the bottom of this post.

Athough not specifically a weed science opportunity, I wanted to repost an announcement for the 2012 University of California Cooperative Extension Horticulture Almond Internship Program.

The 2012 Western Society of Weed Science recently published its annual Research Progress Reports. The full set of progress reports are available online at: http://www.wsweedscience.org/Secure/editor/ResearchReports_Archive.

The development of improved cultivation technology for row crop production has been an active area of research, and has made significant progress in recent years. Currently, standard cultivation removes weeds from the majority of the bed using sweeps, knives, coulters and blades.

After writing an article about natural herbicides in the December issue of this newsletter, I was asked what I thought about the iron HEDTA (FeHEDTA) herbicides that recently came on the market. These are organically acceptable products believed to have minimal human health or environmental effects.