January 23, 2023
Associate Professor Ken Flower has been appointed as the incoming Director of the Australian Herbicide Resistance Initiative at The University of Western Australia’s School of Agriculture and Environment.
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November 1, 2022
Associate Professor Ken Flower has been appointed as the incoming Director of the Australian Herbicide Resistance Initiative at The University of Western Australia’s School of Agriculture and Environment.
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December 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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November 2, 2021
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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February 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.
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March 6, 2019
Ever tried walking out onto a 10-pin bowling alley? It’s generally not pretty, often resulting in a rapid and undignified descent to ground level…But that’s just what we need to get pre-emergent herbicides to slide off stubble and into the soil, which can be difficult in higher residue systems. Rainfall is obviously a key driver in leaching herbicides from stubble before they dissipate, but as we all know rain can be an unpredictable beast. Fortunately, research has shown that some pre-emergent herbicides require far less rainfall to move off stubble and into the soil where they can control germinating weeds.
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