Knockout blow: Our soils will suffer if we lose glyphosate says weed expert

Vernon Graham
Updated July 6 2020 - 1:36pm, first published July 3 2020 - 2:00pm
DIVERSITY CHAMPION: Professor Stephen Powles from the University of Western Australia says farmers need to to rotate herbicides more if they want to keep glyphosate in their weed arsenal.
DIVERSITY CHAMPION: Professor Stephen Powles from the University of Western Australia says farmers need to to rotate herbicides more if they want to keep glyphosate in their weed arsenal.

Conservation farming in Australia will not survive without the knockdown herbicide glyphosate, according to one of Australia's leading weed experts.

Vernon Graham

Vernon Graham

National machinery and property writer

Former editor of The Land, former Fairfax Media Agricultural Editor

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