California Weed Science Society
Meeting in Monterey
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| Weed Meeting Attendees Gather at Evening Reception this evening |
By Patrick Cavanaugh, Editor
TODAY, Nearly 575 weed control
professionals, many in the production agricultural industry are attending the
66th Annual Conference of the California Weed Science Society (CWSS)
in Monterey.
The popular event’s theme is
Meeting the Challenge for a Hungry World: Weed Management Strategies in the
coming Decade.
Steve Fennimore, UC Extension
Weed Specialist is the outgoing president of the CWSS. “We have many limiting
resources in the world and obviously water is a huge limiting resource in
California to say the least. And a large part of the meeting is devoted to a
limiting control of herbicides due to resistance," Fennimore said.
Speakers came far and wide
including Clarence Swanton, University of Guelph, Ontario Canada; Stanley Culpepper, University of Georgia, and
David Shaw, Mississippi State University.
David Shaw is one of the
leaders in the U.S. on various tasks forces to develop strategies in dealing
with weeds resistant to herbicides. “The southeastern U.S. has been adversely
impacted by herbicide-resistant weeds, especially Palmer Amaranth.
The weed Palmer Amaranth is
in California however no resistance has yet to be seen. “We want learn what we
can to prevent resistance,” said Fennimore. “There are weed control systems
that we can apply to our crops to help.”
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