Join us at the next GRDC supported field trial walks to be held at on Thursday 19th June where we will be discussing pre-emergent herbicide use in winter crops.

Thursday 19 June 2025

9am - 'Gilroy', Bogamildi Road, Croppa Creek
GPS -29.211962, 150.106317

The morning will commence with a discussion around crop safety when using winter pre-emergent herbicides with disc and tyne seeders. A demonstration site will look at crop safety and crop establishment with 11 different pre-emergent cereal herbicide treatments applied prior to planting wheat with both a disc and tyne seeder. The same treatments and seeder interaction demonstration has also been applied prior to planting barley on a neighbouring paddock.

In the wheat paddock we will also look at an efficacy trial, comparing phalaris control from a range of alternate pre-emergent herbicides. These phalaris efficacy trials are being led by Bhagirath Chauhan from the University of Queensland who will be in attendance.

Approximately 11am -'Rinbanda', 530 Popinguy Road, Pallamallawa
GPS -29.29162, 150.16450

The trial walk will than move to the nearby farm 'Rinbanda' with another UQ led pre-emergent herbicide efficacy trial also targeting phalaris, this time in chickpea. At this site we have 15 treatments comparing a range of alternate IBS and PSPE herbicides to industry standard Balance treatments.

In the same field, an alternate knockdown herbicide trial has also been established. This trial is comparing a range of alternate single and double knockdown herbicide strategies that may be considered prior to planting chickpea, which are not reliant on paraquat as part of a double knock program.

Cost: Free for growers and agronomists. RSVP to ensure we have enough handouts for the day and catering for morning tea: Register below or contact Erica at erica@icanrural.com.au 02 9482 4930