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Learn to identify more than 100 weeds, to design management strategies and apply weed control techniques and programs in a safe and efficient way.
COURSE STRUCTURE
The course is divided into 8 lessons as follows:
1. Weed Identification: review of the system of plant identification, general characteristics of the weeds, further information, contacts, etc.
2. Weed Control Methods: practical research on management of weeds, understanding terminology and the use of mulches
3. Chemical Weed Control: review of commercial and domestic herbicides, determining what differentiates them, their availability and use.
4. Weed Control In Specific Situations: understanding weed control strategies for particular situations, accessing first hand information about weed control from industry leaders and determining a weed control program for five different sites.
5. Safe Chemical Application: reviewing what types of chemicals and application methods are used in the industry and the required safety procedures for the handling and administrating chemical herbicides.
6. Non-Chemical Weed Control: determining any detrimental effects chemical herbicides have on the environment, reviewing non-chemical applications and their effectiveness.
7. Dealing With Specific Weed Control Problems: looking at current industry practices for weed control and the effects on the environment, in relation to specific weed control problems.
8. Developing A Major Weed Control Program: a practical lesson where the student can fully demonstrate their understanding of weed control by devising a weed management plan for a designated area.
COURSE AIMS
*To distinguish between different types of weeds, and identify common weed species, growing in your locality.
* To understand the characteristics of different weed control methods.
* To be able to explain the use of chemical herbicides to control weeds.
* To be able to specify appropriate weed control methods, for different types of situations.
* To determine appropriate techniques for the safe application of chemical herbicide in a specific situation.
* To be able to explain different non-chemical weed control methods.
* To be able to devise appropriate methods for control of weeds, for specific problems, in both the horticultural
and agricultural industries
* To be able to determine a detailed weed control program for a significant weed problem.
WHAT YOU WILL DO IN THIS COURSE
* You will look at and consider 104 different varieties of weeds and prepare plant review sheets for 13 different weed plants.
*Make up a list of information resources.
*Plant 5 different varieties of weeds to study.
*Make drawings of young seedlings of at least fifteen different weeds.
*Speak/interview people who have to deal with weed control in their daily life.
*Visit a nursery, garden shop or hardware store that sells herbicides to the public.
*Visit at least one supplier of herbicides for industrial and agricultural use.
*Contact 4 or 5 of the larger chemical companies for leaflets on different herbicides.
*Investigate at least two workplaces where weed control programs are regularly carried out.
*Visit and inspect five different sites where weeds are a problem.
*Photograph different places that have been treated with weedicides.
*Contact your local Department of Agriculture or Lands Department for researching purposes.
*Visit several farmers who raise different types of livestock.
*Develop a 12 month guideline for an integrated weed control program for a particular site
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