Trial 4 – Emma & Eric, Myponga

Trial site progress

19/05/16 – Setting up photo monitoring points.

23/07/16 – Spray with MCPA in preparation for strip grazing by cattle.

07/08/16 – Heifers removed

04/09/16 – Subsequent graze with heifers – strip grazed, moving cattle every 12 hours to remove biomass.

15/10/16 – Heifers removed (3 separate grazings with lots of barley grass left behind). First spray with Glyphosate.

20/11/16 – Spot spray for summer weeds and clumpy grasses (eg Cocksfoot). This is ongoing.

08/01/17 – Mass germination of Clumpy Goosefoot and Potato Weed – Spray with Glyphosate.

26/02/17 – More broadleaf weed germination – sprayed with glyphosate.

15/04/17 – First harrow
30/04/17 – Second harrow.

30/04/17

14/05/17 – Mass germination of Cape weed with small amounts of Guildford Grass – Glyphosate spray.