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

With COVID-19, we've had to skip hosting in-person field day events and come up with creative ways to extend research results and information.

Steve Fennimore, UC Davis Plant Sciences faculty member and UC Cooperative Extension weed specialist, and colleagues received the 2020 EurAgEng Outstanding Paper Award for the paper, Crop Signalling: A Novel Crop Recognition Technique for Robotic Control, which was published in Biosystems Engineerin...

The UCCE Rice Team is conducting a field survey to collect watergrass samples over the next few weeks.

Branched broomrape (Phelipanche ramosa), a weedy parasitic plant that can cause devastating damage to many economically important wide range of broadleaf crops including tomato, cabbage, potato, eggplant, carrot, pepper, beans, celery, peanut and sunflower has recently re-emerged in fields in Centra...

From the Lassen county Farm Advisor's Update newsletter (Aug.