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
Is 100% equity lazy? 1 May 2024 Budgets are tight! Fuel, Fertiliser, Chemical, Insurance and Labour costs, among other things, have risen over the past few years, increasing costs across the board. Fertiliser has eased a little, wit... Budgets Crop Competition Crop Density Rising Costs Ryegrass Terminator Agronomist Read more
Size Matters 22 Feb 2024 Try this. Using your hand like a tennis racket, whack a ping pong ball as hard as you can. Now do the same thing with a golf ball. Which one hurt more? The golf ball right. Why? That’s because E = 1/2... Read more
A PhD on smashing weed seeds 20 Dec 2023 I read a PhD! All 244 pages of it. Ok, I didn’t read it all, and I didn’t understand all of it because it was full of equations like this; It was written by a very clever guy who probably knows more a... Read more
Sakura off patent 26 Nov 2023 It happened... Sakura came off patent and it halved in price. We knew it would come down in price, but halving in price has surprised many of us. The prices that I’ve heard so far is about $30/ha for ... Harvest Weed Seed Control Herbicide Resistance Terminator Agronomist Read more
What is the most important thing in weed control? 5 Nov 2023 Given that this is coming to you from Seed Terminator, you’d probably think we’d say harvest weed seed control is number one. But, weed scientists the world over will tell you that the factor that has... Crop Rotation Glyphosate Harvest Weed Seed Control Terminator Agronomist Read more
There's weeds in mud 5 Nov 2023 Tom Gleeson of Hard Quiz fame once said, “I’ve got red hair. That means I’ve got shit skin. That’s two genetic F ups for the price of one!” We’re all feeling for the flooded farmers of Eastern Austral... Glyphosate Harvest Weed Seed Control Terminator Agronomist Read more
There are two types of people in the world 5 Nov 2023 Those that finish what they start. There are two types of weeds in your crop right now. Those that germinated early and survived all the herbicides that you threw at them, and those that germinated la... Herbicide Resistance Late Germination Ryegrass Terminator Agronomist Read more
