All posts tagged "pests"

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  Farm Management

  Vehicle and machinery hygiene

  Weeds, pests and diseases can enter your farm and be spread by equipment and vehicles, either directly or in plant material, soil...

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  News and Views

  Call to landholders to help with testing feral pigs for lepto and swine brucellosis

  Central Tablelands Local Land Services is working on feral pig disease surveillance project, testing for the infectious diseases leptospirosis and swine brucellosis.

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  Farm Management

  Workshops improve snail management knowledge

  Effective snail management requires careful monitoring of snail activity, weather conditions and soil moisture, together with the use of multiple control options.

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  Farm Management

  Wild Dog Alert prototype sends first text alerts

  The Wild Dog Alert ‘SMS 4G camera trap system’ has been turned on for testing, and in its first night has identified...

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  108

  News and Views

  Bolstering biosecurity against BMSB

  The Queensland Farmers’ Federation (QFF) has joined QLD Agriculture Minister Mark Furner in calling on the federal government and other states to...

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  Must See

  Expecting a delivery from overseas? Look out for the brown marmorated stink bug

  If you’re receiving parts, equipment or machinery from overseas, particularly Europe, China and the USA, keep an eye out for the brown...

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  News and Views

  New community deer monitoring tool launched

  FeralScan has more than 15,000 registered users across the country who use the free resource to monitor and evaluate their management programs....

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  Fast Facts

  Fairer pest rate targets Carnarvon fruit fly

  The Western Australian Government has introduced a revised declared pest rate for Carnarvon growers to help rid the region of the destructive...

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  Farm Management

  What is integrated pest management?

  Integrated pest management (IPM) combines the use of biological, cultural and chemical practices to control insect pests in agricultural production.

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  News and Views

  Weeds cost farmers $4.8 billion per year: new report

  A new report released by the Centre for Invasive Species Solutions has found that the agricultural cost of weeds is on average,...