Weed Control in Vineyards

Trying to manage the weeds in your vineyard? John Roncoroni, Weed Science Farm Advisor Emeritus with the University of California Cooperative Extension, Agriculture and Natural Resources covers control practices including biological, mechanical, cultural, chemical, and perhaps in the future, electrocution. Although weeds rarely compete with vines, they can host insect and vertebrate pests and get in the way of pruning crews, increasing labor costs. Listen in for John’s number one tip to better manage weeds in your vineyard.

Resources:

• 128: A New Focus on Weed Management (Rebroadcast)
• 26th IPM Seminar #1: Sustainable Weed Management for Vineyards and Vineyard Ponds
• Herbicide-resistant weeds challenge some signature cropping systems (Journal article)
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• MAINTAINING LONG-TERM MANAGEMENT: Herbicide-resistant weeds challenge some signature cropping systems
• Post-harvest Weed Control with Napa RCD and John Roncoroni (video)
• Sustainable Winegrowing On-Demand – Western SARE (online courses)
• University of California Integrated Pest Management Integrated Weed Management
• Vineyard Floor Management: Steel in the Field (video)

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Transcript

Craig Macmillan  0:00 

Our guest today is John Roncoroni. He is Weed Science Farm advisor emeritus with UC Cooperative Extension, UC Agriculture Natural Resources, and we're going to talk about cultural control of weeds in vineyards today. Thanks for being on the podcast, John.

John Roncoroni  0:13 

Now you bet, Creg, thank you for having me.

Craig Macmillan  0:16 

We met with we'll start with kind of a basic foundation, what would you say is the definition of cultural weed control? Maybe How does it differ from other forms of weed management?

John Roncoroni  0:25 

cultural weed control as part of an integrated pest management program, you know, we have basically cultural mechanical, sometimes they're