October 15, 2019
Mixing herbicides wins again
What sort of person goes to a cocktail party and sticks strictly to beer?
A smart one! We all know that mixing drinks can hurt the next day.
We can’t say the same for herbicide mixing though. The smart farmers and agronomists are mixing two or more herbicides targeting the same resistant weed to delay resistance and maximise weed control, and the science is supporting this approach.
AHRI researcher Roberto Busi is a long-term advocate of herbicide mixing and in his recent paper which describes some computer modelling that he undertook with the help of Michael Renton.
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