grain crops

In this work AHRI researcher Dr. Mechelle Owen surveyed and quantified weed seed infestation of the crop seed that farmers would be planting. In Australia, farmers save their own crop seed (wheat, barley, pulse crops, non-hyrbid canola) for planting in the subsequent growing season. Farmers produce their saved crop seed on low weed burden crop fields, so as to minimise weed seed contamination. This survey was done in 2015. This is the third AHRI survey, with the first conducted in 1998 (Powles & Cawthray 1999) and a larger second survey in 2009 (Michael, Owen & Powles 2010). In this third survey in 2015, Mechelle Owen surveyed 81 crop seed samples, each of 10 kg crop seed (wheat, barley, canola, lupins).