3rd SA Weeds Conference-Plant Research Centre Auditorium, Waite Campus, Adelaide, Australia

8-9 May 2012 3rd SA Weeds Conference Plant Research Centre Auditorium, Waite Campus, Adelaide Continuing on from the past two successful South Australian Weeds Conferences, WMSSA would like to invite all those interested in weed projects, management and research to the 3rd SA Weeds Conference at the Plant Research Centre, Waite Campus, Adelaide The 3 [...]

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Louisiana State University AgCenter offers updated Pest Management Guides

The LSU AgCenter is offering three updated guides online or printed about managing pests, plant diseases and weeds. The guides – the 2012 Louisiana Insect Pest Management Guide, 2012 Louisiana Plant Disease Management Guide and 2012 Louisiana Suggested Weed Management Guide – can be purchased for $12 per printed copy or downloaded free of charge. [...]

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Kudzu bugs threaten soybean crops

Kudzu — the “plant that ate the South” — has finally met a pest that’s just as voracious. Trouble is, the so-called “kudzu bug” is also fond of another East Asian transplant that we happen to like, and that is big money for American farmers: soybeans. (AP) http://news.yahoo.com/;_ylt=An1ZmSzfkywUupq2kpK7NO.s0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTBucTM3cTFmBHNlYwNVSCBCcmFuZCBJZGVudGlmaWVy;_ylg=X3oDMTFpNzk0Njh         tBGludGwDdXMEbGFuZwNlbi11cwRwc3RhaWQDBHBzdGNhdANob21lBHB0A3NlY3Rpb25z;_ylv=3 Kudzu bug (shown to the right [...]

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New publication: Weeds of upland crops in Cambodia

Publication Code: MN141 ISBN: 978 1 921531 65 1 (online) Publication Date: October 2009 Author(s): Robert Mart in & Pol Chanthy Summary A weed identification guide for farmers and extension workers in the upland cropping systems of Cambodia. Sponsored by the Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research, the NSW Department of Primary Industries, and the Cambodian Agricultural Research and [...]

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Pestnet (http://www.pestnet.org): Free on-line Crop Protection and Quarantine Advisory Service by Grahame Jackson, Australia    Pestnet (http://www.pestnet.org) is a free on-line crop protection and quarantine advisory service with more than 1000 members. Run entirely by volunteers, it was first established in 1999 for the Pacific. In 2001 it expanded to south Asia, and in 2003 [...]

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    Joint IOBC International Workshop on Parthenium and Chromolaena: Nairobi, Kenya, 1-5 November 2010 by Prof R. Muniappan, Director, IPM-CRSP, VA Tech,  Blacksburg, VA;  IAPPS Coordinator Region XI: North America The two neotropical plants, Parthenium hysterophorus and Chromolaena odorata have become serious invasive weeds in arid and humid regions, respectively in Asia and Africa. [...]

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