December 6, 2024
If you get better at endurance running, chances are you’ll get a bit worse at sprinting. Roberto Busi has won marathons, but I’m pretty sure…
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September 30, 2024
Do you remember that Simpsons episode where Homer gets a job promoting his local bowling alley and he goes from reading “Advanced Marketing” to “Beginning…
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September 8, 2021
Written by: Peter Newman The Sakura rugby team were formidable. They would turn up to play every game at the Ryegrass Cricket Ground (RCG –…
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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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April 13, 2017
Which herbicides wash off wheat stubble? Ask any farmer how hard it is to wash the yellow trifluralin stain out of their clothes and you…
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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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