Joe and his family have owned their family property in the Southern NSW since 1903. Controlling silverleaf nightshade is an ongoing part of the summer season's farm management. Read more by clicking on the link below.
The Dawes family operate a 5,000ha mixed farmily enterprise in the SW grain belt of WA. Russell has some basic guidelines to keep in SLN in check. To read about these, open the attached file.
The Strongs are based in the Birrego district near Narrandera on the family farm that has been operating for over 100 years. Read out their key messages and advice for managing SLN. To view, open the attached file.
Find out how the "Dual Action" best management appraoch has proven to be beneficial for controlling silverleaf nightshade on the Rowling's farm in the Riverina region of NSW. To view, open the attached file.
Silverleaf nightshade key messages & advice - Part 3
The Silverleaf Nightshade Team have spoken to hundreds of farmers and advisors thoughtout the past two years collating their tips and tricks learnt from tackling with this persistent weed.
Here are this week's tips and tricks:
1. Don’t underestimate the effect of seedling spread: seed will germinate if the soil moisture is good for more than 5 days. Seeds are time bombs.
2. Small green berries still contain viable seeds – be warned!
Participatory research is a key component of this program to generate a large and diverse baseline data on farming scenarios, weed pressure and failure across large geographical zones. This data will be used to refine current silverleaf nightshade best management practices, tailoring the need of different farming enterprises in broader geographic regions across multiple states.