Videos

In this WeedSmart webinar, we talk to WeedSmart northern extension agronomist Paul McIntosh and Syngenta’s Field Biology Manager Rob Battaglia about how S-Metolachlor (Dual Gold) works, its efficacy, and what potential resistance problems might be around the corner. They explain what tactics growers should adopt to reduce potential resistance problems on this key grass weed herbicide, referring to the WeedSmart Big 6.
Topics covered include:

Application considerations for maximum efficacy
Incorporation
Effect of stubble
Herbicide solubility
Herbicide binding characteristics
Herbicide safener “EPIVIO-C”

This WeedSmart webinar outlines the principles of mixing different crops together, and how intercropping may provide weed management options for growers.
Dr Andrew Fletcher is a farming systems scientist at CSIRO who is passionate about the emerging role of diverse cropping systems. He is joined by WeedSmart southern extension agronomist, Greg Condon.
Topics covered include:

Characteristics of intercropping and companion cropping
Australian intercropping data
Canadian intercropping data
Implications for weed management
Examples of in-paddock applications

In this webinar, WeedSmart Southern extension agronomist Greg Condon looks at the mixed farming system and explains how the Big 6 principles encourage diverse weed management. Greg focuses on solutions in the medium rainfall zone whilst grower and agronomist Craig Drum focuses on the high rainfall zone.
Both Greg and Craig share real-life examples of clients who successfully controlled resistant weeds by using a mixed farming system, whilst remaining profitable.
Topics covered include:

What the WeedSmart Big 6 looks like in a mixed farming system
How to be profitable whilst reducing the seedbank of resistant weeds
Harvest Weed Seed Control opportunities: baled chaff, chafflines
4 examples of clients who successfully controlled their resistant weeds using mixed farming