[Agriculture and Horticulture ] Weeds, weeds and more weeds

[jules and ness]

Please alter my email address on your list. Iwill not be contactable at this address in future.

New address is jsheahan2 at bigpond.com.

Thanks, Julian Sheahan
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Tran, Lorraine I 
  To: aghort at edulists.com.au 
  Sent: Wednesday, March 22, 2006 9:41 AM
  Subject: [Agriculture and Horticulture ] Weeds, weeds and more weeds


  Article on weeds in today's newspaper The Age, eco section on page 4 - titled Plants A growing problem highlights how garden plants can become weeds. Mention is made of the CSIRO report commissioned by the WWF titled Jumping the Garden Fence. The report found that $1 in every $7 of agricultural income was lost to weeds, resulting in a $4 billion annual weed bill for farmers. Luppia 'no-mow lawn' introduced in 1970s infests 5.3 million hectares and costs graziers $38 million a year. WWF is pushing for a national mandatory labelling scheme for invasive garden plants.







  If you haven't taken the opportunity to respond to Susanna Greig's earlier email, then I would strongly encourage you to provide her with some feedback. This is a fantastic opportunity for the development of a useful resource to support implementation of the new study design. I have copied in the email below.



  Dear All,



  After investigating the Victorian Agriculture and Horticulture Studies VCE Study Design, I am interested to develop a resource teachers use to provide opportunities for developing student knowledge and skills related to weeds in Unit 3. For this reason, I am emailing now to collect feedback from teachers using this study design. 



  Currently I have considered some ideas which could be included in this resource development.

    1.. A summary of different strategies to manage weeds. This would provide background knowledge students use to evaluate the most appropriate technique to manage weeds found in a studied agricultural/horticultural business. 
    2.. A strategy with guidelines for assessing the presence and significant effects weeds have on ag/hort businesses. 
    3.. Case studies outlining successful weed management approaches in specific ag/hort businesses. 
    4.. Fact Files (or information sheets) describing the current technologies used to prevent or manage weed infestations. 


  Please be advised the final resource developed may include part of, or may be different to these ideas.



  To support this resource development, I ask if you could please contact me with your thoughts regarding these suggestions. If you have alternative suggestions not described above please explain what you would like to see developed. 



  Please be advised plans will be developed from the feedback I collect before the 6th of March.



  I understand many teachers may already be currently teaching this unit. This is helpful as it is the perfect time to determine the most suitable resource that you would find useful in your future teaching.



  To avoid cluttering this email group, unless your suggestion requires discussion, please email directly to: susanna.greig at une.edu.au 





  Kind Regards,

  Susanna Greig

  Educational Officer

  CRC for Australian Weed Management

  School of Rural Science and Agriculture

  Agronomy and Soil Science building

  University of New England

  Armidale 2351

  Australia

  ph: 02 67 732809

  fax: 02 67 733238

  email: susanna.greig at une.edu.au









  Regards,

  Lorraine Tran

  Technology Curriculum Manager

  VCAA. 

  Telephone: (03)9651 4407

  Fax:           (03) 9651 4324

  Mobile:      041 933 1630

  Email: tran.lorraine.i at edumail.vic.gov.au



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