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.IN ADDITION to yours truly, there is an exciting range of guest speakers lined up to talk at the upcoming Riders of the Storm Cropping and Resistance Forum.
I can’t speak highly enough of this group of speakers and would encourage farmers and agronomists to come along and learn more about this growing problem.
It will be held on Wednesday, December 6, at the Bunya Campus Lecture Theatre at the old Dalby Ag College. For tickets head to ahri.uwa.edu.au/events.
PETER NEWMAN is part of the AHRI communications team and has previously worked in the private industry as an agronomist and as a research officer for DAFWA.
His role involves taking AHRI research, as well as other information about managing herbicide resistant weeds, and communicating it to the grains industry.
DR ROBERTO BUSI isa research fellow in AHRI and conducts research on the evolutionary dynamics of herbicide resistance to discover and understand why and how weeds can evolve resistance so fast.
His research has focussed on the impact of using low herbicide rates, and in a world first, established that persistent use of some pre-emergent herbicides at low rates can lead to rapid resistance evolution.
RICHARD DANIEL has been CEO of the Northern Grower Alliance for more than 11 years.
He is responsible for furthering knowledge in the northern agronomic region through leading the NGA to conduct applied research that prioritises the northern region grain grower needs.
DR FRAN LOPEZ-RUIZ has been studying fungicide resistance since 2002.
Since joining Curtin University in 2011, Fran has led the Fungicide Resistance Group within the Centre for Crop and Disease Management.
He currently tests fast, accurate and reliable technology to monitor fungicide resistance and prevent crop disease reaching epidemic levels.
DR BHAGIRATH SINGH
CHAUHAN joined QAAFI as principal research fellow in 2014.
Dr Chauhan has studied the seed ecology of more than 50 weed species and he has experience in developing integrated weed management options based on agronomic approaches.
DR LARS KAMPHUIS isa program leader at the Centre for Crop and Disease Management, in a recently established joint-appointment between Curtin University and CSIRO.
His current research focuses on genetic resistance to sclerotinia stem rot of canola and pulses, and he is passionate about broadening the genetic base of Australian chickpeas.
MR ANDREW SOMERVAILLE is a practising agronomist with Jubilee Consulting.
Having had a career with Monsanto, in 1998 Andrew established a contract research consultancy based in southern Queensland involving evaluation of a wide variety of crop protection products, growth regulators, other growth stimulants and spray adjuvants.
DR LISA BIRD is an entomologist with the NSW Department of Primary Industries based at the Tamworth Agricultural Institute.
She is the lead researcher in the Helicoverpa Insecticide Resistance Program specialising in monitoring and management of helicoverpa resistance across a range of commodities in NSW and central and southern Qld.
DR LEE HICKEY leads a research team at the Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation at University of Queensland.
Over the past nine years, Dr Hickey has played a pivotal role in developing ‘speed breeding’ the rapid generation advance technology for spring wheat to achieve an impressive six plant generations annually.