The fate of water plantain seed at harvest (2001)

Hyelin, E  Pratley, J  Sicapalan, S

2001

Headers have a large capacity to spread water plantain seed and there is little difference in the extent of spread as a result of harvesting with different header types.  Alisma plantago-aquatica, commonly called water plantain, is a big problem in the Murray Valley Irrigation Districts. It is not only rapidly increasing in numbers within fields, it is also spreading between fields. The main causes of spread of water plantain are thought to be by machinery, water, birds and contaminated rice seed.  The main factor that farmers can control directly is machinery. One type of machinery thought to be involved in weed seed spread is the header.