Course description
This course will take you through the ins and outs of pre-emergent herbicides.
We’ll cover why pre-emergent herbicides are an important tool in Australian cropping systems, and how pre-emergents help manage herbicide resistance in crop weeds.
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Pre-emergent herbicides have a few tricks that you have to understand to get them to work correctly.
We'll run through the basics of pre-emergent herbicides and then look at how they can be used in both winter and summer cropping systems.
If you're an agronomist and you'd like to deepen your understanding of how pre-emergent herbicides work, this is the course for you!
How does it work?
Want to understand pre-emergent herbicides in three hours? Join our experts Dr Chris Preston (University of Adelaide) and Mr Mark Congreve (ICAN) as they take you through all you need to know about getting the most out of pre-emergent herbicides.
Get in on the action
There's videos, audio, PDF downloads and quizzes to help you get the most out of our Pre-emergent Herbicides 101 course. Choose your own level of involvement.
The course is broken into four parts:
- Section 1: Understanding Pre-em Basics
- Section 2: Using Pre-ems in a Winter Cropping System
- Section 3: Using Pre-ems in a Summer Cropping System
- Section 4: Bonus materials
Pre-Emergent Herbicides 101 also includes:
- Podcast interviews with Chris Preston, Mark Congreve and Peter Newman
- Live webinar with Chris Preston, Mark Congreve and Peter Newman
Time required: You can complete the core modules of the course (Sections 1-3) in about 3 hours. If you'd like to go through all of the bonus materials as well (Q&A discussion, webinar replay, podcast interview and the resource library), give yourself another 2-3 hours.
Remember: You have lifetime access, so take the course at your own pace.
What you'll get from Pre-emergent Herbicides 101
- Access to our free course (with 12 videos) that covers the basics of how pre-emergent herbicides work, plus practical tips to help you incorporate these herbicides on farm (for both summer and winter cropping)
- Simple, step-by-step instruction from Dr Chris Preston (University of Adelaide) & Mr Mark Congreve (ICAN)
- A comprehensive overview of what we currently know about pre-emergent herbicides and how to best use them in your farming system
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This course is taught by:
Dr Chris Preston
Dr Chris Preston is Professor of weed management at the University of Adelaide. He works on understanding and management of herbicide resistant weeds. Current research projects include IWM in southern farming systems to combat herbicide resistance, improved herbicide efficacy and longevity in southern no-till farming systems, mechanisms, evolution and inheritance of resistance. He also chairs the Australian Glyphosate Sustainability Working Group.
Mr Mark Congreve
Senior consultant with the Independent Consultants Australia Network (ICAN), Mr Mark Congreve has over 23 years’ experience in a wide variety of sales, marketing, extension, development and project management roles across Australian and New Zealand agriculture including the grains, pulse, oilseeds, and cotton and horticulture markets. Demonstrated strengths are in the areas of weed, insect and disease management, application technology, biotechnology, market research, agricultural produce marketing and project management.
Course curriculum
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1
Welcome
- How this course works
- Please read before continuing
- Download the plain English summary
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Section 1: Understanding Pre-em Basics
- Module 1: Herbicide resistance – why pre-emergent herbicides are important in Australian cropping systems
- Module 2: Where your weed seeds are – how to get pre-emergent herbicides to work
- Module 3: Pre-emergent herbicide behaviour – solubility and binding
- Module 4: Pre-emergent herbicide persistence – what affects persistence and when too much is a problem
- Module 5: Incorporation of pre-emergent herbicides and crop residue management – when you need it and why
- Section 1 Quiz
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Section 2: Using Pre-ems in a Winter Cropping System
- Module 6: Maintaining crop safety with pre-emergent herbicides
- Module 7: Getting the most from pre-emergent herbicides in the farming system
- Module 8: Resistance to pre-emergent herbicides and its management
- Section 2 Quiz
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Section 3: Using Pre-ems in a Summer Cropping System
- Module 9: Residual herbicide use in summer fallow
- Module 10: Residual herbicide use in summer crops – at planting
- Module 11: Residual herbicide use in summer crops – in crop
- Section 3 Quiz
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Section 4: Bonuses
- Module 12: Q&A discussion with Chris Preston, Mark Congreve and Peter Newman
- Resource library for more information on pre-emergent herbicides
- Podcast episode with Chris Preston and Mark Congreve
- Q&A Webinar
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Wrap-Up
- Well done, you made it!
- Thanks for joining in! Let us know what you thought.
Reviews
A Valuale Learning Experience
daniel birch
Great initiative. Good format (read slides and/or listen whilst doing field work), good content coverage from basics through to more complex discussion. Rela...
Read MoreGreat initiative. Good format (read slides and/or listen whilst doing field work), good content coverage from basics through to more complex discussion. Relating back to practical application is beneficial. Length of each module is about right. Thanks very much.
Read LessVery good basic snapshot of Pre emergents
Richard Saunders
A very good presentation of the basics of pre emergents. Well handled, good information in an easy format.
A very good presentation of the basics of pre emergents. Well handled, good information in an easy format.
Read LessGood Course
Edison PURBA
Thank you for letting me join the course which has broadened my knowledge on preemergent herbicides. I think this is very valuable for most course participa...
Read MoreThank you for letting me join the course which has broadened my knowledge on preemergent herbicides. I think this is very valuable for most course participants. I knew a little about pre-emergent herbicides before I took the course but now I understand how they work.
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