A recent two-year trial has produced encouraging data to help Mallee farmers understand the role that row spacing and orientation play in crop performance and weed control. With insight from trials undertaken in Western Australia and New South Wales, Birchip Cropping Group has recently completed a project to investigate the influence of row spacing and...
Herbicide resistant weeds and the overdependence on agrochemicals are on the rise within central western NSW. For example, the glyphosate resistant weeds that are now quite common within Australian farming systems include fleabane, annual ryegrass, barnyard grass, liver seed grass, windmill grass and brome grass just to name a few. Within Australian farming systems, weeds...
By Caitlin Langley Farmers and managers understand that one of the keys to the reduction of weed populations and increasing drought tolerance in pasture is getting away from conventional monoculture. Indeed many are progressing to the idea that by having multiple grass varieties in a pasture system by investing in greater pasture biodiversity it will encourage...
Overview- Overdependence on agrochemicals The project is primarily focusing on locally relevant research utilising two harvest weed seed control options, narrow windrow burning and the EMAR chaff deck or a farmer made equivalent. Both of these options provide a low cost method of controlling weed seeds . The yearly activities included one farmer led windrow...
