Address:

165 Johnson Hall
PO Box 646420
Pullman, WA  99164-6420

Email: youngfl@wsu.edu

Position within agency: USDA Ag Research Service

Specialties: Cropping Systems, Conservation Tillage, Weed Management, Weed Biology

What he can do for you! Provide information on winter annual grass weeds and spring annual broadleaf weeds--their management and biology, ecology, weed species shifts due to long-term field-size cropping systems studies ranging from wheat fallow (low rainfall area) to annual cropping (high rainfall areas).

Job Description: Working with numerous other scientist from eight to ten disciplines encompassing soil fertility, alternative crops, carbon sequestration, soil quality, entomology, pathology and economics on cropping systems studies.

Young, F., R. Veseth, D. Thill, W. Schilleinger, and D. Ball. 1995. Managing Russian thistle under conservation tillage in crop-fallow rotations. PNW 492. Washington State Univ., Pullman, Wa. 12 pages

Young, F., A. Ogg, Jr., D. Thill, D.Young, and R. Papendick. 1996. Weed management for crop production in the Northwest Wheat (Triticum aestivum) Region. Weed Sci. 44:429-436.

Young F. L., A. Ogg, Jr., C. M. Boerboom, J. R. Alldredge, and R. I. Papendick. 1994. Integration of weed management and tillage practices in spring dry pea production. Agron. J. 86:868-874.

Young F. L., A. G. Ogg, Jr., and R. I. Papendick. 1994. Case studies of integrated/whole farm system designs: Field-scale replicated IPM trials. Amer. J. Alt. Agric. 9:52-56.