Extension activities: Provide educational programming for fresh market and processing vegetables and potatoes, berries and fruit, landscape and ornamentals, and organic production.
Research activities: Applied weed ecology, with an emphasis on practical strategies for management in horticultural crop production systems. Development of integrated strategies for weed management that improve the economic and environmental sustainability of crop production. Specific interests include crop tolerance or suppression of weed interference, weed resistance management, and parasitic weed ecology & management.