Farmers had a lesson in noxious weeds today at the Lismore Showgrounds.
Stakeholders provided the latest research and control techniques to help them win the fight against the threatening species.
“We’ve got live samples here to show them and display and lots of brochures to hand out.”
And the experts are winning the war against one of the region’s biggest pests.
Bio-control technology is being used to reduce the troubling Giant Parramatta Grass population.
“One of the beauties of a bio control agent is its not just a one off spray and you know its gonna come back from the seed bank, this particular fungus will affect the seedling so as they germinate it will knock the seedling out as well.”
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