WeedSmart Podcast
Welcome to the WeedSmart Podcast Channel!
Each fortnight we'll bring you updates and in-depth interviews with farmers, agronomists and weed researchers from around our north, south and west cropping regions. #AusAg #Broadacre #Grains #Cotton #WeedManagement
Our regional update will talk to our industry leaders focusing on managing weeds, emerging regional issues and practical science-based solutions for use on-farm by you. #RegionalUpdate
Our technical update will speak with leading experts to bring the latest application of science to paddock supply chain of diverse weed management to mitigate herbicide resistance and maximise crop gross margins. #BeyondResistance
Our current podcaster, Shannon Beattie, will bring the conversation to you in your paddock, ute or tractor, so you can stay connected and plan ahead for future diverse weed management on your farm. Shannon will be joined by our team of WeedSmart Extension Agronomists Pete Newman, Chris Davey, Jana Freebairn, Greg Condon and Paul McIntosh.
Listen in to the latest podcast or scroll our back catalogue for progressive weed management over the years in Australian broadacre agriculture. Our previous podcasters Siobhon Eacott and Jessica Strauss provide a range of great interviews with farmers and agronomists for a local updates or technical experts bringing the science to you.
Stay connected. Stay informed. Stay WeedSmart.
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Episodes
232 episodes
Beyond Resistance – Early harvest tips from around the Regions
In this episode of Beyond Resistance, we hear from our WeedSmart Extension Agronomists from the Western and Southern regions on steps to take from this point in the season with cool soft spring finish to the winter growing season a...
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Season 10
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Episode 9
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42:07
Regional Update - Erin Dalton, Forbes, NSW
In this episode of Regional Update, we hear from Erin Dalton, Baker Ag Advantage, an experienced agronomist working closely with growers in her region to tackle the season’s biggest challenges. Erin shares valuable on-the-ground insi...
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Season 10
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Episode 8
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15:42
Who Really Decides How You Spray?
Tom Wolfe pulls back the curtain on the forces driving (and sometimes derailing) new spray technology – and how farmers can cut through the noise to find what will work for them!In this episode of Beyond Resistance, spray technolo...
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Season 10
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Episode 7
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55:11
Regional Update - Austin Rayner, Nabawa, Midwest WA
Austin Rayner, farm manager with EF Smart Pty Ltd, brings an update from Midwest WA with insights into the weed strategy after a period of soil amelioration investment combined with new chemistry, leading to a low weed seed bank p...
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Season 10
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Episode 6
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21:17
Regional Update - Max Schmelzer, Jimbour Plains, SE Qld
Our June Regional Update gives us an insight into the Northern cropping region during this year, as crops are being harvested and sown simultaneously with the season presenting a few challenges. Hear from UQ graduate, Max Schmelzer as he ...
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Season 10
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Episode 5
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17:05
Regional Update - Greg Condon, Northern Region, & Jana Freebairn, Southern Region
In this episode, we hear from our WeedSmart Extension Agronomists, Jana Freebairn and Greg Condon, updating from their respective Southern and lower Northern growing regions.With many farms commencing a dry seeding program to efficiently...
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Season 10
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Episode 4
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27:15
Beyond Resistance - Nipping Gazania In The Bud with Ali Bajwa & Chris Davey
As our farming environment changes with our management, so to do the plant populations growing across our landscape. Gazania, a long-term weed within Australia is taking advantage of harsher summers competing well where water is a ...
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Season 10
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Episode 3
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41:53
Regional Update - Chris Davey, Southern Extension Agronomist, SA
The regional update from the southern growing region with WeedSmart Extension Agronomist Chris Davey, providing you with a dry seeding update for 2025, soil moisture observations and challenges for crop health. With negative moistu...
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Season 10
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Episode 2
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22:54
Regional Update - Henry Coleman, Jamestown, SA
Welcome to 2025!The first Regional Update of 2025 takes us to Lock Valley Farms in South Australia, with Henry Coleman, a mixed operations grower and Youtuber.Documenting his life on the farm alongside his family, he filled us in ...
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Season 10
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Episode 1
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15:59
Seed dormancy 101 and a Western region update
In this episode of the WeedSmart Podcast, we talk about how weed seeds can adapt their dormancy, discussing the selection pressures, interactions with herbicides and the recommended actions from growers to get ahead.We also caught up wi...
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Season 9
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Episode 14
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44:04
Header Run – The imi resistance issue: Dealing with broadleaf weeds in 2024 and beyond
Join WeedSmart Southern Extension Agronomists Jana Freebairn and Chris Davey in discussing the rising resistance to imi’s (imidazolinone) in broadleaf weeds, in 2024 and beyond.Imi resistance is a growing issue within our cropping system...
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Season 9
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Episode 13
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39:52
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Regional Update – Ian Pursehouse, Grower, West Wyalong, NSW
Ian Pursehouse is our guest for this episode of the Regional Update.Located in NSW, in West Wyalong, Ian and his family transitioned from a mixed operation to 100% dryland cropping in the late 2010's, and have been learning from every e...
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Season 9
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Episode 12
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20:46
Regional Update – Stuart Vlahov, Grower, Ellendale, WA
This Regional Update Podcast episode, we're joined by grower Stuart Vlahov from Western Australia.Stu is a grower in Ellendale, WA, around 35kms south-east of Geraldton near Walkaway, who has recently been using two drones to spray crop...
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Season 9
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Episode 11
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13:30
Looking forward to WeedSmart Week 2024!
In this episode of the WeedSmart Podcast, we heard from Josh Hollitt, an Independant Agronomist located in the Eyre Peninsula, who is presenting at the upcoming WeedSmart Week in Port Lincoln. Speaking on summer weed control strategies,...
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Season 9
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Episode 10
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23:10
Regional Update – Vicky French, Grower, Derrinallum, Vic
This week on the Regional Update, we are joined by former agronomist and grower Vicky French.With nearly 10 years of experience working for Elders as an agronomist, and now a grower with her husband in Derrinallum, Victoria, Vicky...
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Season 9
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Episode 9
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7:59
Deep placement of phosphorus and potassium (P&K)
Joining us on this extra-long episode of the WeedSmart Podcast was Mike Bell, who shared his extensive experience of soil nutrition and more recent work into P&K deep placement in the northern regions. We also talked with Kurt Mayne...
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Season 9
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Episode 8
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57:04
Regional Update – Angus Dalgliesh, Agronomist, Cloncurry, QLD
This week on the Regional Update, we are joined by agronomist Angus Dalgliesh.Angus is an agronomist with Nutrien Ag Solutions who has recently moved from Dalby to Cloncurry in north-west Queensland, taking on the challenge and opportun...
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Season 9
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Episode 7
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16:12
Pre-emergent options and a resistance update
In this episode, we talk to Bevan Addison of Adama about pre-emergent herbicide options in canola, and getting the best out of products.We also spoke to Senior Research Officer Mechelle Owen, who works within the Australian Herbicide Re...
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Season 9
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Episode 6
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48:53
Regional Update – Cameron Jenkin, Farm Manager, Pindar, WA
This week on the Regional Update, our new podcast host (and WeedSmart Communications Lead) Siobhon Eacott talked to Farm Manager Cameron Jenkin.Cameron manages the wheat and chemical fallow operations of Mark and John Flannagan near Pin...
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Season 9
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Episode 5
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11:12
Management strategies for glyphosate resistant weeds
In this episode, we look at management strategies for glyphosate resistant weeds.We're joined by University of Adelaide researcher Chris Preston, who recently presented on the topic at the GRDC Crop Updates in Dubbo.We're also j...
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Season 9
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Episode 4
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44:03
Regional Update – James Kearines, Agronomist & Grower, Lake Cargelligo, NSW
This week on the Regional Update, we are joined by grower and agronomist James Kearines.James is an agronomist with Elders near Lake Cargelligo in central NSW, where he specialises in broadacre dryland agronomy, mainly dealing with the ...
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Season 9
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Episode 3
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10:42
Spot spray technology - advantages and challenges of the latest equipment
In this episode, we delve into the world of spot spray technology.Rob Price, from South Australia, and Jake Hamilton, from Queensland, use Bilberry and John Deere See and Spray tech respectively. They explain their motivations f...
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Season 9
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Episode 2
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41:32
Regional Update – Matt Elliott, Grower & Agronomist, Nandaly, Vic
Welcome back to the WeedSmart Podcast for 2024.This week on the Regional Update, we are joined by grower and agronomist Matt Elliott.Matt farms with his family near Nandaly in the Mallee region of Victoria, and is also an agrono...
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Season 9
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Episode 1
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10:22
Wrapping up the 2023 season with a look at weed control across the country
In this episode, we wrap up the 2023 season by talking with our WeedSmart Extension Agronomists.Together, Northern Extension Agronomist Paul McIntosh, Southern Extension Agronomists Greg Condon and Chris Davey, and Western Extension Agr...
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Season 8
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Episode 23
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48:24
Regional Update – Katrina Swift, Grower, Parkes, NSW
This week on the Regional Update, we are joined by grower Katrina (Treen) Swift.Treen farms with her family near Parkes, NSW, where they grow summer and winter crops in incredibly variable conditions.They have 13 different crops...
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Season 8
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Episode 22
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10:58
