The 10
Point Plan helps you win the battle against crop weeds. Follow the links below
for practical tips and tricks to implement these strategies on-farm, and
further information on the research to back up these steps.
- Research and plan your
WeedSmart strategy
- Understand the biology of your
weeds
- Be strategic and committed
- Consider your options – chaff cart,
narrow windrow burning, baling, Harrington Seed Destructor
- Compare the financial cost per
hectare
- more difficult on livestock farms but it can be better managed eg move animals carefully from weedy paddocks, allowing time for seeds to exit the gut.
- Protect the existing herbicide
resource
- Repeated application of
effective herbicides with the same MOA is the single greatest risk
factor for herbicide resistance evolution
- Resistance continues to evolve
- Sample weed seeds prior to
harvest for resistance testing
- Always use the label rate
- Weeds resistant to multiple
herbicides can result from below the rate sprays
- Diversity, diversity, diversity
- Consider post-emergent
herbicides where suitable
- Consider strategic tillage
- Use best management practice in
spray application
- Patch spray area of resistant
weeds if appropriate
- No escapes
- Plant weed-free crop seed
- The density, diversity and
fecundity of weeds is generally greatest along paddock borders and
areas such as roadsides, channel banks and fencelines
- Any combination of weed
control that involves two sequential strategies
- A second application to control
survivors from the first
- Increase your crop’s
competitiveness to win the war against weeds
- Row spacing, seeding rate and
crop orientation can all be tactics to help crops fight
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