May 13, 2022
Written by: Peter Newman “If I were given one hour to save the planet, I would spend 59 minutes defining the problem and one minute…
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August 11, 2021
Written by: Peter Newman AHRI insight has a bit of a twist this edition. Peter Newman composed and performed a rap. You can check out…
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June 2, 2021
Written by: Peter Newman Last week we had a great question from Western Australian agronomist, Tim Boyes who was wondering whether he should spray cereal…
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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 28, 2018
The most recent AHRI random resistance survey by researcher Mechelle Owen reflects exactly these observations. The survey visited 500 fields in 2015 and found only 65 wild radish populations in crop compared to 96 in the previous survey in 2010. There were fewer populations of wild radish found in the crop in the north, and more populations found throughout the rest of the state. As you may expect, herbicide resistance levels in wild radish have generally increased a little between the 2010 and 2015 surveys. Click through to read more.
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February 19, 2018
It would be remiss of us to talk about the latest integrated Harrington Seed Destructor (iHSD) research without acknowledging the challenges with this new machinery…
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September 26, 2017
When does a fracas become a melee? When does a cake become a soufflé? When does a wild radish seed become a viable seed, after which…
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March 31, 2017
Once in a while, someone comes along and asks a question that you have never given much consideration to. Like, “Why does beer garden beer…
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March 14, 2017
“There are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say, we know there…
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February 7, 2017
They said ‘yeah, it happened in the lab but that will never happen in real life’. The evil Busi said ‘I’m not a bad person,…
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