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Date: Feb. 8, 2006

UW weed management book sales notch 500 in one week

            Sales are growing like weeds for a perennial best seller now available in a revised format.

            Purchases of  Montana, Utah, Wyoming Weed Management Handbook 2006-2007 are brisk, with 500 copies sold in just one week, Dee Bixby of the College of Agriculture’s Cooperative Extension Service (CES) Resource Center at the University of Wyoming, said today.

            The book, designed as a weed management reference for crops, pasture, rangeland, aquatic, and non-crop situations in Wyoming, Utah and Montana, is directed toward producers, commercial spray applicators, consultants and herbicide dealers. It is also available on-line.

            One reason the book is primarily herbicide focused is CES specialists over the years have received numerous common questions about what herbicides to use on many  weeds, said Stephen Enloe, CES weed specialist and assistant professor in the UW Department of Plant Sciences. “It has been extremely useful to produce a manual that points folks in the right direction and that has the most up-to-date information,” he said.

            The three states combined their weed management handbook efforts in 1993 after those involved determined time was better spent putting together a collaborative effort, said Enloe.

            The guide provides weed management information for the public in one source, said Steve Miller, associate dean and director of UW’s Wyoming Agricultural Experiment Station. “It is an extensively used resource by university educators, federal land-management agencies and farmers and ranchers in the state,” he said.

            Enloe, one of the lead editors for the handbook, said it will be updated every other year. “Updates will be much easier with the new on-line version, and people are able to access individual sections online as needed,” he said. “We’re excited and pleased to get this out to people. It’s great to see it selling so well.”

            The book is on-line at https://www.uwyo.edu/UWCES/WeedManagementHandbook.asp.  Hard copies for $15 may be obtained by e-mailing the College of Agriculture’s Resource Center at bixbyd@uwyo.edu, calling the center at (307) 766-2115, or writing to the University of Wyoming, College of Agriculture, Department 3313, 1000 E. University Ave., Laramie, WY 82071.

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