Area Wide Management for cropping systems weeds: investigating the weed management, social and economic opportunity

The traditional approach to tackling weeds has been to focus on paddock or farm scale management. Instead this project aims to take an area-wide approach to weed management. The theory being that if the number of weeds over the entire landscape can be reduced, everyone in that area should benefit, especially when dealing with weeds with mobile seed and pollen. This includes considering potential benefits across different land uses such as dryland, irrigated land and public areas like roadsides. This project is all about bringing land managers together to identify cases with likely high payoffs and what it would take for a more collaborative approach to be attractive and successful.