SA Arid Lands Weed Control 2017/18

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Highlights:• Cochineal spreading

• Cylindropuntia fulgida var. mamillata and C. prolifera –cochineal sourced from Peter Jones, Biosecurity Queensland.

• Opuntia engelmannii, O. robusta, Cylindropuntia imbricata –cochineal present in the field and spread by land managers, volunteers, DEWNR staff and contractors.

In progress:• North Flinders land managers

around Blinman called for a meeting to develop an OpuntiaControl Strategy in their area.

• This will result in a coordinated approach to Opuntia control across the landscape.

• The idea is to use biocontrol in denser infestations and chemical control on outliers and in areas where plants are sparsely distributed.

• DEWNR are involved in facilitating the development of this strategy and have provided maps detailing where control has occurred over the past decade.

Highlights:• Release of “Nutritional value of

common pastoral grasses to livestock”,factsheet• Identifies nutritional inadequacy

of Buffel grass compared to other pastoral grasses.

Nov 2015

Nov 2017

Blinman Pepper tree control

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