WeedSmart Podcast

Apr 17 2025 225 ep. 27 mins 40
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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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Regional Update - Chris Davey, Southern Extension Agronomist, SA

Apr 17 2025 22 mins  
Got a question or topic you're interested in? Send us a text! 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 moisture levels in the soil and limited rainfall over the last 12 months, looking over the spray

Regional Update - Henry Coleman, Jamestown, SA

Feb 11 2025 15 mins  
Got a question or topic you're interested in? Send us a text! 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 on the season just been - though dry, he's remaining optimistic this coming year is going

Seed dormancy 101 and a Western region update

Dec 10 2024 44 mins  
Got a question or topic you're interested in? Send us a text! 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 with Pete for a quick recap of the season in the West, after an explosion of weeds than

Header Run – The imi resistance issue: Dealing with broadleaf weeds in 2024 and beyond

Oct 30 2024 39 mins  
Got a question or topic you're interested in? Send us a text! 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 systems and is becoming ever more important when considering crop rotation, herbicide se

Regional Update – Ian Pursehouse, Grower, West Wyalong, NSW

Oct 08 2024 20 mins  
Got a question or topic you're interested in? Send us a text! 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 experience since. Ian has a systems-focused approach, with an emphasis on optimising r

Regional Update – Stuart Vlahov, Grower, Ellendale, WA

Sep 03 2024 13 mins  
Got a question or topic you're interested in? Send us a text! 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 crops within his mixed farming operation spanning 3500ha. With bogged crops and wild radi

Looking forward to WeedSmart Week 2024!

Jul 23 2024 23 mins  
Got a question or topic you're interested in? Send us a text! 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, Josh has over a decade of experience to share and is looking forward to hearing from

Regional Update – Vicky French, Grower, Derrinallum, Vic

Jun 18 2024 7 mins  
Got a question or topic you're interested in? Send us a text! 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 French has a wealth of knowledge to share - and will be doing so at WeedSmart Week this Ju

Deep placement of phosphorus and potassium (P&K)

Jun 11 2024 57 mins  
Got a question or topic you're interested in? Send us a text! 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, a grower from Rolleston, QLD, who has been implementing a deep placement regime into

Regional Update – Angus Dalgliesh, Agronomist, Cloncurry, QLD

May 21 2024 16 mins  
Got a question or topic you're interested in? Send us a text! 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 opportunity in the burgeoning cropping region. Though weeds aren't a problem at this early st