The AHRI Agronomy team is lead by Dr Mike Ashworth, with the help of Research Associate Dr Yaseen Khalil, Research Officer Roberto Lujan Rocha and Technical Officer Shane Baxter.

The agronomy team conducts field and lab trials to develop farming systems strategies to enhance weed-competitiveness of crops, understand weed lifecycle adaptations, optimise and prolong the utility of pre and post-emergent herbicides, find best management practices for mapping weeds through remote-sensing and site-specific technology and to develop farming systems with the objective of reducing herbicide dependency.

Check out some of the recent work by the AHRI Agronomy team below:

• Intelligent weeds evolve to evade chemistry and management controls

• The interaction between wheat (Triticum aestivum), time-of-seeding and choice of pre-emergent herbicide on annual ryegrass (Lolium rigidum) growth and competition.

• WA trials consider the effectiveness of nitrogen placement on crop competitiveness

• Fighting weeds with plants in the west – plant establishment critical to out-compete weeds