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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- Update frequency
- every 12 days
- Average duration
- 27 minutes
- Episodes
- 231
- Years Active
- 2016 - 2025
Spray contracting and getting a double knock right
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Sometimes outsourcing some of the big jobs on the farm can be of real benefit. Whether it's because you don't have your own spray rig, or …
Herbicides and stubble – some wash off, some don’t
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If Yaseen Khalil’s recent research is anything to go by, trifluralin would make a wonderful dye and is just about as hard to wash off stub…
Seed dormancy & herbicide application
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Sleep. It's something essential to human survival and most people would say they love a good nap! Turns out weed seeds tend to like to tak…
Grow A Crop Worth Frosting
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Correct early crop sowing strategies can be unravelled by a frost event later in the season. In this podcast, we get a preview into the to…
Spray Drift And Crop Competition
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Join your hosts Jessica Strauss and Peter Newman in the first podcast for March! Spraying weeds and choosing seeds are the hot topics this…
Pre-emergent herbicides and ensuring summer weeds are kept at bay
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Dr Chris Preston chats to us about correct pre-emergent herbicide use and Colin McMaster discusses how treating Summer weeds while they're…
How to control summer weeds
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It's the first podcast of 2017 and we're excited to be chatting with Andrew Storrie from Agronomo and the Australian Glyphosate Sustainabi…
Weed control in the Esperance region & Northern Region Update
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Harvest is done and dusted for the majority of growers across the nation. In this Christmas edition podcast which is our last for the year…
Learn how to prevent harvest losses
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In this second podcast focusing on harvest Peter Newman and Jessica Strauss discuss harvest losses and chaff carts, talking to guests Kond…
Crushing weed seeds using the iHSD
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With harvest kicking off across Australia, we check in with Warren Treasure who is using an iHSD. John Broster talks about the research h…
Frost, floods and 2,4-D
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Over the last few weeks the parts of Western Australia have been impacted by frost, while some growers in the East have had to deal with f…