How to Collect Herbicide Resistant Weed Seed for Testing

It may be a bit early in the season to start thinking about herbicide resistance, but in just a couple of weeks, most rice growers will have put out their last herbicide applications, and it will be time to start scouting.

University of California Cooperative Extension, in collaboration with the Agronomy Research and Information Center at UC Davis, has produced a short video which explains how to collect seed to make sure that if you do submit weed seed for testing, you get back accurate results. The form which must accompany any submitted weed seeds can be found on the UCANR Rice Website: http://rice.ucanr.edu/files/263785.pdf.