00:01I've always had an interest in agriculture working with dad from a young age and weeds
00:08are one of the biggest implications in production and I'm interested in how that how that can be
00:15improved to increase production research is really cool like you get answers and you can
00:20apply that to help production and help farmers and provide food for the world I'm Rosie McMurray
00:27and I'm doing my honors this year at Adelaide University obviously weeds are a big thing and
00:34they're becoming even more prevalent with herbicide resistance now so if they're getting harder to
00:40control and becoming more of a problem so I'm looking at the specific mechanisms of glyphosate
00:48resistance in fleabane, black sleeve fleabane I'm more looking at the non-chemical side of things
00:53which can supplement the herbicide options I'm Finn Sullivan Llewellyn and I've just finished
01:00my Bachelor of Ag Science but gone into my honors year now so I'll have a field trial in a
01:06lentil crop
01:07and then looking at novel broadacre non-chemical weed control options and then we'll utilize some
01:15modeling resources to look at like the long-term benefits like rotational benefits and things like
01:21that yeah it's good to be a part of like the collaborative group different projects working
01:26around each other it is great to see it I wish I had their support when I was doing my
01:30honors as
01:30well and the weed management initiative has a very good student cohort set up which is great to see
01:36so yeah looking forward to see how their careers progress and how their projects start out investment
01:42helps with being able to get questions answered and get answers for farmers to increase production I guess
01:50that's a part of it getting into saying hopefully new like this which is pretty exciting something new
01:56and that can hopefully be utilized on farm in coming years a huge investment a flagship investment with
02:02a weed management initiative across all our grain growing regions is building management strategies
02:08for grain growers capacity looking at new researchers and bringing in knowledge from overseas so that we
02:15deliver the most cutting-edge management strategies and cost-effective management strategies for grain
02:20growers to use I think there's a lot of opportunities that we still haven't unlocked yet with understanding
02:27population genetics here there aren't a ton of researchers at least in America that are working on
02:32understanding where the population genetics so I think that's also an area that excites me a bit
02:36I'm William Kramer and I'm from Canada I grew up on a fourth generation family farm in northern Canada in
02:43Alberta
02:43our farm particularly we grow wheat and a ton of canola but our main issues was always weeds
02:50I've been kind of removed from the applied science or applied aspect of wheat science for a long time
02:56like not since I was really an agronomist with Cargill or on the farm did I hear a lot of
03:01problems that we
03:02heard today different herbicide combinations and what works best so it will definitely be a transition getting my mindset
03:09back into like the broader scope of weed science but I think what I'm most excited for is there's a
03:14lot of topics that were
03:15brought up around you know understanding more the molecular side of a lot of these issues that we're seeing in
03:20the field
03:20and that's kind of where my expertise lies I think
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