Publication Date
9-2024
Series Number
DPIRD-50
Publisher
Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development
City
Perth
Abstract
Key messages
• West Australian (WA) grain growers have significant weed seed contamination in their crop seed.
• WA growers are sowing herbicide resistant weed seed into their cropping paddocks.
• Crop hygiene (harvest, seeding, transporting) is important to minimise spread of weeds.
Harvest is well underway throughout the WA grainbelt, and growers will be harvesting grain and collecting seed for next year’s crop.
However, this crop seed can be contaminated with weed seeds and, if seed cleaning operations are only partially effective, this weed seed may be sown into paddocks with crop seed in the following season.
Number of Pages
2
Keywords
Weed seed contamination, Seed collection, Crop hygiene, Weeds, Crop seed, Farm hygiene
Disciplines
Agribusiness | Agricultural Economics | Agricultural Education | Agricultural Science | Agronomy and Crop Sciences | Biosecurity | Plant Breeding and Genetics | Weed Science
Recommended Citation
Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development, Western Australia.
(2024), Are you planting resistant weeds with your crop seed?. Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development, Perth. Factsheet DPIRD-50.
https://library.dpird.wa.gov.au/bs_factsheets/36
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