Herbicide Resistance Strategies
Herbicides and pesticides have been successfully used for decades to control pests and weeds in farming. However, it is now known that the repeated use of the same types of chemicals year after year will develop resistant and cross-resistant weed and pest populations. The rotation of chemical groups alone is not effective in preventing herbicide resistance. A number of management strategies used in combination are necessary if farmers want long-term success. Pasture and crop rotation, herbicide rotation, crop competition and non-chemical based strategies, such as cultivation, burning and delayed sowing all need to be taken in consideration.
NFW Agronomists work with you and your business when putting together a strategy that will provide effective weed and pest management whilst protecting your long-term productivity and profitability.
Herbicide Resistance is the inherited ability of a plant to survive and reproduce following exposure to a dose of herbicide that would normally be lethal to the wild type. A cross-resistant weed biotype is defined as a biotype which has developed resistance after selection from one herbicide and which then exhibits resistance to herbicides which differ chemically and which have different modes of action.