weeds

Again, Landau points to previous research to explain why dry or rainy conditions might prime weeds to be less responsive to herbicides.

“We were fully in the weeds, which was wonderful and it was really important,” he says of the process.

Her dislikes are weeds that matter less, if at all, than what she prizes.

They’d make some progress and then come back later only to find the weeds had sprouted again.

But every year, California growers apply more than 180 million pounds of pesticides to crops in an effort to defend them from weeds, fungi, insects and other pests.