It’s the greatest of all agricultural disasters

MG
Updated February 15 2018 - 7:20am, first published February 14 2018 - 10:31am
A magnified view of lippia in bloom. Landholders whose paddocks are inundated with this weed say a view from the air when in full bloom looks like a snow field. Seeds have spread widely in every flood in every river system west of the Great Dividing Range now infested and if not stopped will become a great environmental disaster.
A magnified view of lippia in bloom. Landholders whose paddocks are inundated with this weed say a view from the air when in full bloom looks like a snow field. Seeds have spread widely in every flood in every river system west of the Great Dividing Range now infested and if not stopped will become a great environmental disaster.

INTRODUCING lippia to Australia as a garden lawn covering possibly in the 1960s in addition to European carp in the early 1900s have been the worst two environmental disasters for agriculture in all river systems west of the Great Dividing Range, according to retired Forbes district agronomist, Graham Falconer.

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Mark Griggs

Journalist 0- Central West NSW

Central West and Western editorial reporter living at Wellington and based out of The Land, Dubbo office.

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