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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Agronomy and weed control
April 19, 2022
Predictable farming equals dormant weed seeds
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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January 17, 2022
AHRI 2021 Wrap-Up
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…
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December 16, 2021
Mechanical scarification speeds up the study of wild oats
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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AHRI Insight
November 2, 2021
LiDAR to detect and map tall weeds at harvest
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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AHRI Insight
July 2, 2021
Early flowering radish and HWSC
I was on a trip a couple of years ago with Ray Harrington talking all things harvest weed seed control (HWSC) to groups of…
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AHRI Insight
February 15, 2021
World first: glyphosate resistant capeweed
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.
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December 18, 2020
AHRI 2020 Wrap Up
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.
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July 13, 2020
On a good thing? Don’t stick to it! – the Director’s Cut
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.
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May 29, 2020
Epic WA focus paddock project shows we’re having a win
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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