The Importance of Harvest Weed Seed Control
Dr. Michael Walsh
Tuesday, 22 Oct 2019 at 4:10 pm – 18 Horticulture Hall
Dr. Michael Walsh is the director of weed research at the University of Sydney (Australia). He has led research and development activities focusing on farming machines that reduce weed population densities by destroying weed seeds before they return to the soil during crop harvest operations. Dr. Walsh’s talk is part of the Staniforth Lecture series in the Department of Agronomy at Iowa State.
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