Thursday, 17 November 2011
NSW Noxious and Environmental Weed Control Handbook (5th edition) now available
The NSW Department of Primary Industries has just released its latest update of a ‘weed bible’ in the hope of encouraging landowners to responsibly manage personal and business responses to weed infestations:
This handbook has been compiled as a guide for noxious and environmental weed control in non-crop, aquatic and bushland situations.
Contents include:
· Integrated weed management
· Managing your legal responsibilities when applying pesticides
· Reducing herbicide spray drift
· Using adjuvants with herbicides
· Cleaning and decontaminating boom sprays and spot sprayers
· Withholding periods
· Herbicide resistance
· Control techniques using herbicides
· Weeds declared noxious in New South Wales
· Pesticide permits
· Noxious and environmental weed control
· Gas gun/splatter gun application
· Appendix 1: Spray calibration methods
Labels:
environment,
rural affairs
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