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Post-emergence herbicides are cost effective for vineyard floor management on the Central Coast
Laura
Tourte,
UC Cooperative Extension Santa Cruz County
Richard
Smith,
UC Cooperative Extension Monterey County
Larry
Bettiga,
UC Cooperative Extension Monterey County
Tiffany
Bensen
Jason
Smith
Darryl
Salm
ABSTRACT:
Central Coast growers are under increasing scrutiny and regulatory pressure to manage herbicide use because of their farmland’s proximity to the Monterey Bay and National Marine Sanctuary. Vineyard floor management practices typically consist of a combination of weed control strategies, including herbicide use and cover crops. We evaluated nine combinations of vineyard floor management practices for their impacts on fruit yield, quality and costs. We found
that compared to the grower standard, post-emergence herbicide treatments generally used smaller amounts of chemicals and were less costly, with similar yields and quality.
KEYWORDS:
Central Coast, vineyards, simazine, groundwater, pre-emergence herbicides, post-emergence herbicides, cover crops, costs
SUGGESTED CITATION:
Laura Tourte, Richard Smith, Larry Bettiga, Tiffany Bensen, Jason Smith, and Darryl Salm
(2008)
"Post-emergence herbicides are cost effective for vineyard floor management on the Central Coast",
California Agriculture:
Vol. 62:
No. 1,
Page 19.
http://repositories.cdlib.org/anrcs/californiaagriculture/v62/n1/p19
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