Paddock Chat
Local knowledge from a paddock near you. Paddock Chat is a West Midlands Group Original Podcast created to support local growers and help solve farming challenges without having to leave the paddock. The West Midlands Group is a not-for-profit grower group located in Dandaragan, two hours North East of Perth.
Paddock Chat
The Future of Managing Herbicide Resistance
This episode explores the current challenges for weed control in the Northern Agricultural Region of Western Australia from the view of Matt Willis, Market Development Agronomist with Bayer Crop Science. Newly appointed Director of the Australian Herbicide Resistance Initiative (AHRI) Associate Professor Ken Flower joins the discussion to outline how collaboration between all industry stakeholders is needed to develop a more robust and diverse farming system that has a lower reliance on herbicides to do the heavy lifting for weed control.
SPOILER: The harnessing of technology, particularly variable rate application and the ability to detect the current and future location of weeds in the paddock features strongly in this episode!
The West Midlands Group would like to acknowledge Bayer Crop Science as a long-term sponsor of the group.
Resources :
Ken Flower UWA ken.flower@uwa.edu.au
Australian Herbicide Resistance Initiative
Matt Willis Bayer CropScience
matt.willis@bayer.com