Australia
June 14, 2016
The Carlton football club have improved out of sight this year. The mighty Blues have already won more games than they did last year and the season isn’t even half done! But they still have room for improvement. The Fremantle Dockers on the other hand…
Grain growers in WA get the most improved award for seed cleaning this year. A study by AHRI researcher Mechelle Owen in 2015 found that 41% of grower seed samples were completely weed free compared to 27% when the survey was first conducted in 2008. Gold star to these growers!
The 2008 study concluded that seed cleaning professionals were better than grain growers at cleaning seed.
And it seems that many grain growers have taken notice, with 95% of growers in the 2015 study using seed cleaning contractors. And it’s a good thing too, because the contractors in 2015 were 10x as good as the growers at cleaning seed.
It’ll come as no surprise that the weeds from the samples containing weed seeds were herbicide resistant.
The last thing we want to do is plant herbicide resistant weeds with our crop. And this study continues to show that clean seed is possible.
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P.S. Go the Blues!
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AHRI insight is compiled by Peter Newman and Brogan Micallef.
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