Lidysce Andrea Mata is a new visiting scholar in the Meyers’ weed science lab. She was born and raised in Honduras, where she’s currently senior undergrad student at Zamorano University. She joined the Meyers’ lab to fulfill a “professional experience” requirement to graduate from the Agricultural Sciences and Production major at Zamorano University, but also because she is deeply[Read More…]
Celia Corado is a new visiting scholar in the Meyers’ weed science lab. She was born and raised in Honduras, where she obtained her bachelor’s in Agronomy from the National University of Agriculture UNAG. Her main interest is in Horticulture production. Her short-term goal is to learn everything related to weed management as well as[Read More…]
Four HLA members attended and presented research at the Weed Science Society of America Annual Meeting in Arlington, Virginia January 30 to February 2: Evaluation of Weed Removal Timing for Three Sweetpotato (Ipomoea batatas L.) Cultivars. Emmanuel Cooper. Poster. Ethofumesate Resistant Annual Bluegrass in Oregon Grass Seed Production Systems. Vera Vukovic. Poster. Using Black Soldier[Read More…]
Six members of the Horticulture Crops Weed Science Lab presented research at the 77th Annual North Central Weed Science Society Meeting in St. Louis, Missouri December 5-8. Poster Presentations: Evaluation of Weed Removal Timing for Three Sweetpotato Cultivars. Emmanuel G. Cooper*, Stephen L. Meyers, Jeanine Arana. Combinations of PRE and Layby Herbicides in Watermelon. Josue[Read More…]
The HLA Weed Science Lab has a new journal article available ahead-of-print in Weed Science. The article is co-authored by current and former members of the lab and features research conducted in collaboration with Red Gold: Dicamba Residue Persistence in Processing Tomato by Stephen L. Meyers, Jeanine Arana, Brandi C. Woolam, Nathaly Vargas, Laura Rodriguez,[Read More…]
Four members of HLA competed in the 2022 North Central Weed Science Society Weed Contest. Participants included Jeanine Arana, Emmanuel Cooper, and Josué Cerritos from the Meyers Lab and Vera Vukovic from the Patton Lab. The event was hosted by Corteva in Johnston, Iowa. Participants competed in written and hands-on sprayer calibration, weed identification, herbicide[Read More…]
Luis Medina is a visiting scholar from Honduras who joined the Meyers’ weed science lab. He obtained his B.Sc. in Agronomy from Universidad Nacional de Agricultura (UNAG), Honduras. ” This opportunity has awakened in me a great interest in weeds, which are of great agricultural importance. It is definitely an area in which I would[Read More…]