Organic tool to fight foreign weed

By Jamie Brown
Updated February 7 2017 - 7:18am, first published February 6 2017 - 3:03pm
Jeremy Bradley in a paddock full of Giant Parramatta Grass where fungi is doing work as a weed killer. Mr Bradley has twice received Australian Government Landcare awards for innovations in sustainable agriculture.
Jeremy Bradley in a paddock full of Giant Parramatta Grass where fungi is doing work as a weed killer. Mr Bradley has twice received Australian Government Landcare awards for innovations in sustainable agriculture.

Thanks to the determination of a couple from the Hastings Valley, there’s an organic alternative that targets introduced Parramatta grass with a native fungi – Nigrospora oryzae – which remains in the soil forever after.

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