Weedscene, Publications, Reviews, Other publications

Weedscene, the newsletter of the Weed Society of Victoria, is available online through the Publications link of the Weed Society of Victoria website.

The Weedscene Archive has now been updated so that you can access editions of Weedscene up to Volume 22 Issue 3 (2011).

by Adam Grubb (Director and Manager of Design & Education, Very Edible Gardens Pty Ltd)

The series of seminars to accompany the 45th annual meeting of the Weed Society of Victoria certainly lived up to the promise in the title, Contentious Perspectives on Weeds.

As Australian agricultural and environmental sciences continue to grow in importance and complexity, so does our need for reliable and up-to-date-reference books such as this recent checklist of the scientific and common names of Australian plants. It is one of those books that needs to be always at hand - an office essential to the working agriculturist, horticulturist, environmentalist and weed scientist.

Until now weed science teaching in Australian colleges and universities has relied on overseas textbooks, mainly from the USA. Whilst the principles are undoubtedly the same our weeds are different, our ecosystems are different, and our approaches to weed management are different. The main educational objectives of the highly successful Cooperative Research Centre for Weed Management Systems were the production of a common syllabus for weed science and a supporting text book, and at last we have our own Australian text on this important topic.

The Weed Society of Victoria publishes a regular newsletter Weedscene as well as a range of conference proceedings etc.  Original reviews of other relevant publications can be submitted to the Society's Web Editor.

Weedscene Archive

The Weedscene archive now has a web page of its own

Proceedings for the Seminar - Weed Management - worth the investment?

Copies of the proceedings are available from the Secretary for $12.50

Proceedings of the Fourth Victorian Weeds Conference - Plants behaving badly - in agriculture and the environment

Proceedings of the conference are available from the Secretary.
As a pdf on CDs, $6.00 including postage.
Paper copies, $22.00 including postage.

Proceedings of the Second Weeds Conference - Smart weed control, managing for success

Proceedings of the Second Weeds Conference - Smart weed control, managing for success, held in Bendigo on 17 August 2005 are available from the Secretary for $25 including postage and packaging.

Proceedings of the 11th Australian Weeds Conference

Limited quantities of the Proceedings of the 11th Australian Weeds Conference are available. This 597 page publication is packed with over 150 papers by authors from around Australian and overseas. Major topic areas were Cropping, Rangeland, Pasture, Urban and Public Lands and Forests. Presentations were also made by the CRC for Weed Management Systems on herbicide resistance, CRC for Tropical Pest Management on novel approaches to weed management. One session was devoted to an examination of the role of transgenic crops in weed control and their advantages and potential disadvantages.

This conference was organised and run by the Weed Science Society of Victoria on behalf of CAWSS and attended by about 350 delegates.

The newsletter of the Weed Society of Victoria, Weedscene, is now available online as this archive of pdf files. Click on an edition below:

• Weedscene 13-1
• Weedscene 13-2
• Weedscene 13-3
• Weedscene 13-4
• Weedscene 13-5
• Weedscene 13-6
• Weedscene 14-1
• Weedscene 14-2
• Weedscene 14-3
• Weedscene 14-4
• Weedscene 14-5
• Weedscene 14-6
• Weedscene 15-1
• Weedscene 15-2
• Weedscene 15-3
• Weedscene 15-4
• Weedscene 15-5
• Weedscene 15-6
• Weedscene 16-1
• Weedscene 16-2
• Weedscene 16-3
• Weedscene 16-4
• Weedscene 17-2
• Weedscene 17-3
• Weedscene 17-4
• Weedscene 17-5
• Weedscene 18-1 (January 2007)
• Weedscene 18-2 (March 2007)
• Weedscene 18-3 (May 2007)
• Weedscene 18-4 (July 2007)
• Weedscene 18-5 (September 2007)
• Weedscene 18-6 (November 2007)
• Weedscene 19-1 (2008)
• Weedscene 19-2 (2008)
• Weedscene 19-3 (2008)
• Weedscene 19-4 (2008)
• Weedscene 20-1 (2009)
• Weedscene 20-2 (2009)
• Weedscene 20-3 (2009)
• Weedscene 20-4 (2009)
• Weedscene 21-1&2 (2010)
• Weedscene 21-3&4 (2010)
• Weedscene 22-1 (2011)
• Weedscene 22-2 (2011)
• Weedscene 22-3 (2011)

Can Australian natives be weeds?

"Oh yes they can!" was the resounding voice from this seminar held at Monash University in Melbourne on 22nd February 2001. Speakers illustrated the increasing number of Australian native plants that have spread beyond their natural range within Australia and overseas to become invasive in areas where they don't normally exist.