All we need is herbicides! 20 Nov 2025 How good areallthese newherbicides! Wethought resistance was going to bugger our farming system, and the experts told us there’d be no newherbicidesto solve our problems. But the experts were wrong, t... Read more
Patching out patches 22 Oct 2025 What’s the point of harvest weed seed control? Reducing the seed bank, right! Yes. And. Stopping the spread of weed patches. This second point is often overlooked, and it may even be just as significa... Read more
Is AI coming for your weeds? 13 Oct 2025 Are you sick of everyone talking about AI? Me too. But have you heard of AGI? AGI is where AI goes above and beyond human intelligence, and it may only be a couple of years away. The average human has... Read more
Ultra-low seedbank farming 7 Jul 2025 Are you old enough to remember the days of Glean and Hoegrass? No, Hoegrass is not a weed, for those of you born this century, it was a herbicide. And they were great. They were the first of the selec... Read more
Camera with a Mill chaser. 29 Jun 2025 Not to be confused with beer with a port chaser, the camera sprayer with a Seed Terminator chaser may be the next best thing. Weed control technology has come a long way, and I feel that when we start... Read more
What does the future hold? 14 Apr 2025 Look into my eyes and I will tell you your future….. Pfffft. I’m not into predictions, but I have recently been to a few research update events where plenty of people were telling us what the future o... Read more
Rotation planning time. 24 Jan 2025 Rotation Planning Time. January 7, 2025 Few things will have a bigger impact on your yields, profit, weeds, pests, and disease than crop rotation. It’s a huge thing to get right. Sometimes, what you a... Read more
Crop topping is doomed. 23 Oct 2024 The days of crop topping with glyphosate are numbered. We have a lot of glyphosate resistance. Lots and lots. Resistance testing services are finding that about half of the populations tested are resi... Crop Topping Glyphosate Harvest Weed Seed Control Herbicide Resistance Ryegrass Windrowing Read more
Wild radish flowers everywhere 9 Oct 2024 Wild radish flowers everywhere There’s some pretty wild photos getting around on X of wild radish in WA this year. A wet winter in the north has stopped growers getting on paddocks to spray. While the... Harvest Weed Seed Control Wild Radish Read more
Paraquat - Don't get mad, get even. 9 Oct 2024 Paraquat – don't get mad, get even Recently the APVMA proposed some major changes to the paraquat registration, and the farming community are rightfully very cranky about it. I suggested in a previous... APVMA Fencelines Paraquat Ryegrass Read more
Is Paraquat on the Ropes? 24 Jun 2024 Is Paraquat on the ropes? Being on the ropes isn’t always bad. It worked for Muhammad Ali using the rope-a-dope technique against George Foreman in the ‘Rumble in the Jungle’ in 1974. Ali lay back on ... Fencelines Glyphosate Herbicide Resistance Paraquat Ryegrass Read more
Wild radish seed is easy to smash. 19 May 2024 Wild radish seed is easy to smash. We spend a lot of time talking about ryegrass as the worst weed in Australia, which is true. But what about the other weeds? Turns out that wild radish is rated as t... Crop Competition Harvest Weed Seed Control Wild Radish Read more
