Bayer CropScience launches Sakura®
Bayer CropScience is pleased to announce the registration of its pre-emergent herbicide Sakura, in good time for the 2012 season. more
Powdery mildew on barley - no soft touch for fungicides
The welcome arrival of a better season across most of the Western Australia grain belt has brought with it the challenge of a return to more intense disease pressure. Growers in the Esperance Port Zone in particular have taken a ‘hard hit’ from powdery mildew in barley, with the 2011 infection beginning in early tillering. Yield losses from uncontrolled early infection can be as high as 50% due to tiller abortion. more
Families clash on climate change - 1 in 3 families disagree on the importance of climate change
AUSTRALIAN kids are clashing with their parents on the importance of climate change, a new survey has found. The debate on pricing carbon and protecting the environment may reach parliament house next week but new research shows the environmental debate is also running hot in homes around the country. more
