Australia
October 8, 2015
Learn how herbicide resistance research fits into your world.
Life is full of trade-offs. Do I buy the quality beer or go for volume? Should I take the high paid job or the job with lots of holidays?
The answer to the second question may dictate the answer to the first!
Harvest weed seed control (HWSC) is full of trade-offs. Some options are excellent but expensive. Others are cheap but require compromise.
For example, narrow windrow burning appears cheap, but has a high hidden cost of nutrient removal and requires a lot of labour to burn the windrows. The Harrington Seed Destructor is the dead opposite.
In this AHRI insight we quantify the cost of six HWSC tools. One of the tools can cost as little as 10c/ha while another can cost as much as $60/ha.
The cheaper tool may seem the obvious choice, but it is not quite that straight forward.
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P.S. We’re giving RIM a break. New RIM runs are back in November! (Here are the ones we’ve done so far).
P.P.S. Are you interested in staying up to date with weeds, pests & disease? If the answer is yes, the inaugural Crop Protection Forum (hosted by AHRI and CCDM at UWA) is an opportunity to learn about resistance and how to blunt its evolution. Find out more and register here.
P.P.P.S. In other exciting news, Stephen Powles has a new online course brought to you by WeedSmart's Diversity Era. Starts November 16! For more details and to get your free account (it's easy), click here.
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