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

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