Queensland Government Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry Principal Research Scientist, Michael Widderick recently visited AHRI in Perth. Michael gave a great overview of his projects and we also discussed opportunities to collaborate with AHRI. Michael's team are working on crop competition (among other projects), focusing on sorghum, pulse crops, and manipulation of crop competitiveness to suppress typically summer emerging weeds in winter crops. There are some similarities with the crop competition work our agronomy team are doing. Michael explains some of the barriers to crop competition adoption in the Northern region. We also discuss how the drought in the Northern region impacts research outcomes.
You can follow AHRI on Twitter here. To learn more about AHRI's research and team, check out the website here.
