January 10, 2023
AHRI 2022 wrap-up: a year in review
Written by: Jessica Scholle From all of us at AHRI, Happy New Year! As we start a fresh new year, we wanted to take this…
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January 10, 2023
Written by: Jessica Scholle From all of us at AHRI, Happy New Year! As we start a fresh new year, we wanted to take this…
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Written by: Peter Newman How do you think a row of soldiers, lined up across the middle of the battlefield, wearing their poncie red coats…
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Written by: Jessica Scholle Despite the challenges COVID-19 presented in 2021, our researchers continued their research and published throughout the year. From the identification of…
Read MoreDecember 16, 2021
Written by: Peter Newman It turns out that wild oats wear raincoats. Anyone who has researched wild oats knows that getting them to germinate…
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Written by: Peter Newman I’ll never forget being in a crowded pub at Rottnest Island on a typical summer afternoon and spotting Luc Longley, former…
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I was on a trip a couple of years ago with Ray Harrington talking all things harvest weed seed control (HWSC) to groups of…
Read MoreFebruary 15, 2021
We’re blowing up our most valuable herbicides on the least productive part of the farm.
Fencelines, roadsides, drainage areas, etc.
AHRI researchers, Dr Yaseen Khalil and Dr Mike Ashworth and others have confirmed the world’s most recent addition to the growing list of glyphosate resistant weeds: capeweed.
Read MoreDecember 18, 2020
Despite the challenges 2020 presented, there continued to be excellent research which was published throughout the year. In this post we have collated our top five most read AHRI insights and our top five most listened to podcasts for 2020.
Read MoreJuly 13, 2020
Welcome to the highlight reel of AHRI’s recently released blockbuster – ‘Don’t stick to it!’. Set in the labs, glasshouses and fields of this world-leading research powerhouse, and featuring renown giants of the herbicide resistance world – Powles, Busi, Yu and Owen, this latest exposé will have you seriously impressed!
‘Don’t stick to it!’ delves into five years of ground-breaking scientific discovery and its value to Australian farmers in their epic battle against profit-sucking weeds.
Read MoreMay 29, 2020
Every parent knows that we simply can’t have favourites. We must love each of our children equally.
We at AHRI shouldn’t have favourites. We love all weeds research papers equally, but this paper is perhaps a little more equal!
It is the work of Martin Harries from DPIRD involving a six-year focus paddock survey with data from 184 paddocks spanning 14 million hectares of cropping land in Western Australia, made possible with GRDC investment.
Martin has recently published the weeds aspect of this research as part of his PhD and reported that we’re having a win with weed control in WA.
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