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August 13, 2015

Early flowering wild radish paradox

If you drop a piece of toast, it will land butter side down (the likelihood of this is proportional to the price of the carpet)….

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July 28, 2015

Keith Richards, not Jimi Hendrix

The old rock star adage is ‘live hard, die young’. Keith Richards, on the other hand, has somehow managed to buck the trend and ‘live…

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July 9, 2015

Recipe for success

Life Give everything you’ve got Repeat daily Glyphosate resistant awnless barnyard grass High glyphosate rate Small plants Low temperature (if possible) Double knock when it’s…

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June 26, 2015

How to beat unfit weeds

How good would it be to turn up to play a game of football or hockey (or whatever your sport) against a team that you know…

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June 12, 2015

Wild oat – always the bridesmaid

Wild oat is the Yohan Blake of weeds. Yohan is an amazing sprinter, but unfortunately for him, his Jamaican training partner Usain Bolt is faster….

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May 29, 2015

Simazine resistant silver grass

When Airbus delivered the first A380 aircraft in 2008 they were very proud of the fact that it was the quietest commercial airliner ever produced….

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May 15, 2015

Horror movie

“Horror movie right there on my TV, horror movie it’s the 6.30 news”, Skyhooks Weeds researchers and communicators can be a depressing bunch, always bringing…

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April 23, 2015

Knock knock

Knock knock Who’s there? Little old lady Little old lady who? I didn’t know you could yodel! It is double knock season in Australia. Glyphosate…

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April 8, 2015

Chicken or the egg?

It is one of the great philosophical discussions – what came first, the chicken or the egg? (Spoiler alert – the egg came first). What…

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March 23, 2015

Nature mimics science

The Wright brothers spent a lot of time observing the curved shape of bird’s wings and how air flowing over this curved shape caused lift….

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