UCCE presents
Advances in Organic Weed Management

Free event
Lunch included

March 4, 2025, 8 am – 12:30 pm
@ Woodland Community College
Building 800 Community Room
2300 E. Gibson Road, Woodland

4 hours DPR CE credits requested
3.5 hours CCA CE credits approved

Please, RSVP here – https://surveys.ucanr.edu/survey.cfm?surveynumber=45568

Schedule:
8:15 AM Introduction, Margaret Lloyd, UCCE Small Farms Advisor
8:25 AM Weed control 101: Why? When? How? Brad Hanson, UCCE Weed Science Extension Specialist
8:50 AM Fundamental management of weed seed banks – Steve Fennimore, UCCE Weed Science Extension Specialist
9:30 AM In-row weed management in warm season vegetables with smart or simple cultivators – C. Scott Stoddard, UCCE Vegetable Crops Advisor
9:50 AM Break
10:10 AM Electrical weed control in California organic almond orchards- Tong Zhen, Ph.D. Candidate, UC Davis Plant Sciences
10:35 AM Native hedgerows as a weed management tool- Justin Valliere, UCCE Specialist in Invasive Weed & Restoration Ecology
10:55 AM Grower panel and Q & A
1. Weed management on a diversified farm: Stale seed beds, power harrow and more. Paul Underhill, Terra Firma Farm
2. Using steam, occultation and other tools for weed management on small farms. Hope Sippola, Fiery Ginger Farm
3. The precision tine harrow: a game changer for large and small-scale vegetable farms. Jan Velilla, UC Davis Student Farm Manager (formerly Full Belly Farm)
11:40 AM Equipment Demonstrations: Electric weeder, hand-scale tine harrow, farm-ng Amiga with weeding implements, Terrateck double wheel finger weeder and more
12:15 pm LUNCH

Questions?

Phillip Fujiyoshi 530-653-8346, pfujiyoshi@ucanr.edu

Margaret Lloyd 530-564-8642, mglloyd@ucanr.edu