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The Spring 2012 edition of UCNFA News, the online newsletter for the UC Nursery and Floriculture Alliance, is now available for viewing. This issue focuses on weeds and weed management for nursery and floricultural operations.

A video entitled, "Alternative Cultivators for Organic Vegetable Production" is now available on YouTube.

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.

It's too cold in Tulelake to work in the field, so I'm stuck writing reports and going to meetings this week. I recently finished summarizing my 2011 onion weed control studies conducted at the Intermountain Research and Extension Center (IREC) in Tulelake.

The public's increasing demand for safe green products has resulted in many new environmentally-friendly products becoming available for controlling weeds in the garden and landscape.

Light brown apple moth (LBAM), Epiphyas postvittana (Walker) was recently found in Santa Barbara County for the sixth time. LBAM is a quarantine pest on the United States mainland and can cause serious damage to various crops, nurseries, fruit trees, landscapes, and native plants.

Article originally posted on the UC ANR Green Blog. Written by Rebecca Miller-Cripps and reposted with permission. Brad Weeds, weeds, weeds! Have you noticed? This has been a banner year for weeds. Puncturevine where Ive never seen it before.

Today I thought I'd put in a plug for the California Weed Science Society (CWSS) annual meeting to be held January 23-25, 2012 in Santa Barbara. Information on the meeting can be found in the October newsletter at: http://www.cwss.org/PDF/CWSS_Fall_2011_Newsletter.

This week we are finalizing plans for the 55th Annual UC Davis Weed Day on July 14th. It's not too late to register if you are interested in a sampling of the current weed science research at UCD! More info and registration information on Weed Day can be found here: http://wric.ucdavis.

It's one of the most beautiful agricultural scenes you'll ever see--bee trucks heading to California almond orchards to pollinate one of the state's most important crops.