“To take advantage of the opportunity of a lifetime, we must act in the lifetime of the opportunity” -James T Valvano. Valvano was the coach of the NC state basketball team in 1983 who were the unlikely winners of the title in the dying seconds of the game. In summing up the recent WSSA Summit on herbicide resistant weeds in Washington DC last week, Dr Harold Coble relived being at the game and said “this may be the opportunity of a lifetime, to work together to get herbicide resistant weeds under control”. The USA have taken the title from Australia…

Kids these days, they are spoiled rotten. “We used to get up in the morning at half past ten at night, half an hour before we’d gone to bed, eat a lump of cold poison, work 29 hours down mill and pay the mill owner for permission to come to work. And you tell that to the young people of today and they won’t believe you.” – Monty Python Farmers these days, they are spoilt for choice when it comes to harvest weed seed control options. There are now five commercially available tools to remove weed seeds at harvest with…

“Washington is not a place to live in. The rents are high, the food is bad, the dust is disgusting and the morals are deplorable. Go West, young man, go West and grow up with the country”. Horace Greeley, 1865. Horace believed that going west to fertile farm land would be the answer to poverty and unemployment in the USA. Sowing west could be part of the answer to weed management. There is a new kid on the block in the competition between crops and weeds, and the best thing about it is that it is FREE! East-west sowing is…