Non-chemical turf renovation and weed control around the edges (of your property).

06/05/2024

by Dr. Joe DeFrank

  On June 05, 2024, Dr. Joe DeFrank made a presentation to professional turf managers as part of their continuing education for various agency and licensing credits. 

Topics covered in this lecture :

  1. Case study: non-chemical turf renovation.

  2. Drizzle Nozzle for low volume Glyphosate application.

  3. Pre and post herbicides for non-crop bare soil, alternatives to glyphosate

  4. Glyphosate and cancer: Yes or No!

 

Documents cited in the classroom lecture are also provided as pdfs in the table below. 

 

For more information on this presentations contact:

Dr. Joe DeFrank

email: defrenk@hawaii.edu

Suggested method to view streaming media and slideshow:

1.  Open two browser windows of this page, one will be used to view the "talking head" as video and the other will be used to view the slide show images as an Adobe pdf. 

2.  Click on the link to "view lecture", let the program download and start then hit pause.

3.  In the second window open the pdf version of the slide show and once the first slide appears return to lecture video and resume play.

3.  With two windows open, you can follow the lecture video for the cues to change the slide image.

Title of Presentation

Media format MPEG-4 Slide show images as pdf
Weed control lecture  (posted 06/05/2024) view lecture view/download slides
What do global regulatory and research agencies conclude about the health impacts of glyphosate? 2023   view/download document
Glyphosate: EPA Interim reregistration review decision case number 0178, 2020. 2020.   view/download document
International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC): Some organophosphate insecticides and herbicides vol. 112, 2017.  Includes health assessment of glyphosate.   view/download document
9th Circuit Court Opinion of case #20-70787, Natural Resource Defense Council; Pesticide Action Network North America v U.S. EPA. Regarding EPA’s  2020 Interim reregistration review of glyphosate. 2022.   view/download document
IARC Monographs Hazard Classification graphic.  2023.   view/download document

EFSA Peer review of the pesticide risk assessment of the active

substance Glyphosate (July 6, 2023)

  view/download document

 

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