Member profiles

 

	Chris Preston is Associate Professor of Weed Management at the University of Adelaide.  He chairs the Australian Glyphosate Sustainability Working Group.  Chris also co-ordinates research projects on 'Understanding and management of weeds resistant to glyphosate, Group I herbicides and paraquat', 'Glyphosate resistance in non-agricultural areas' and 'New pre-emergent herbicides to manage trifluralin resistance and Integrated weed management in the southern region'.
	John Cameron is Director of Sydney-based consultancy ‘Independent Consultants Australia Network (ICAN)’.  Coordinator for the GRDC’s Northern Region Grains Research Updates.  Member of the National Integrated Weed Management Initiative (NIWMI). Runs training workshops for grain growers and advisers on integrated weed management and cereal disease management.  John has also conducted farming systems and weeds research and marketing and agronomic consulting and  strategic research into the impact and adoption of new technology in the grains sector.
	Tony Cook is the Technical Specialist Weeds with NSW Department of Primary Industries based at Tamworth Agricultural Institute. He has 22 years experience in weed research ranging from aquatic, pastoral, cropping and woody weed situations. His achievements in the field of resistance management include the development of selective spray-topping (wild oats) and determining alternative management of glyphosate resistant weeds - awnless barnyard grass, fleabane, annual ryegrass and Liverseed grass. He is active in two major projects funded by GRDC relating to glyphosate resistance management.
	Mark Evans is the National Category Manager Seed and Technical Services for Ruralco and has been involved in weed and herbicide resistance, research and management for more than 20 years. Previously Mark worked for the Kondinin Group and has a background in agronomy, extension and education.
	Abul Hashem is a Principal Research Scientist with Department of Agriculture  Food WA. Abul has 31 years experience in research and extension of weed science and crop agronomy, publishing 36 peer reviewed papers in weed ecology, weed control, herbicide resistance and weed biology, 119 national and international conference proceedings, 28 semi-scientific papers in periodicals, numerous Newsletter articles and talks in field days and workshops on weed research and extension; Abul regularly contributes to national and international weed research.
	Chris Love is Development Manager for herbicides in the Northern Region (NSW & Queensland) with Dow Agrosciences based in Brisbane. Chris has been conducting  research and development for 26 years with emphasis on woody weed and fallow herbicides. Chris also led the development programs for Grazon® Extra and Hotshot®. Currently on the executive of the Weed Society of Queensland as treasurer and have been a member of the executive since 1999 as well as president from 2005-06. Served as the industry representative on the National Lantana Management Group Committee from 2005 to 2011.
	David Minkey is the executive director for the Western Australian No-Tillage farmers Association. He has over 20 years experience in the agricultural cropping industry with the majority of his time spent with DAFWA and the Western Australian Herbicide Resistance Initiative (WAHRI).  Specialising in herbicide resistance and weed management David has led research projects into herbicide efficacy, managing weeds in no tillage farming systems and understanding the ecology of weed seeds in the Western Australian cropping environment.  David also has a strong extension background with his role as extension/communications officer with WAHRI, having assisted in the teaching of the national integrated weed management training for farm advisors and has lectured on precision agriculture and genetically modified cropping at UWA.
	James Neilsen is Canola Technical Specialist with Monsanto Australia Ltd based in Melbourne.
	Jodie Pedrana is Portfolio Manager for Integrated Pest Management and Chemicals with Horticulture Australia, based in Brisbane. Prior to this she was with Monsanto Australia Ltd.
	Stephen Powles is Director of the Australian Herbicide Resistance Initiative and a Winthrop Professor at the University of Western Australia.  Prof Powles has been working on herbicide resistance for nearly 30 years and is one of the world’s most highly cited plant scientists.  He and colleagues have published 180 research papers on herbicide resistance and two books.  Prof Powles also battles herbicide resistance on his own cropping farm at Quairading, WA.
	Rohan Rainbow is Manager, Crop Protection with the Grains Research & Development Corporation.
	Jason Sabeeney is Solutions Development Manager with Syngenta Crop Protection based in Mount Pleasant, South Australia and has 20 years industry experience.  Jason is Chairman of CropLife Herbicide Resistance Management Review Group (HRMRG), and a committee member of National Integrated Weed Management Initiative (NIWMI). Jason’s specialisations include extension and training on non-selective herbicides, herbicide resistance and application technology. In 2007 he facilitated the review of the Australian herbicide mode-of-action labelling system.
	Rex Stanton is a Research Officer with the EH Graham Centre, Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga, NSW. Rex commenced his research career investigating control of woody weeds using strategic grazing by goats integrated with herbicide application. Rex then focused on glyphosate resistance in annual ryegrass as part of a project that also included agronomic studies of transgenic crops and assessment of the role of glyphosate in future southern Australian farming systems. Most recently Rex has been involved with innovative control of silver-leaf nightshade and prairie ground cherry.
	Andrew Storrie is Executive officer of the AGSWG and private weed management consultant based in Albany WA. Andrew was Technical Specialist Weeds and Weeds Agronomist for 15 years based at Tamworth, NSW and spent half his time running various projects with the CRC for Australian Weed Management. Andrew was co-editor and major contributor to "Integrated Weed Management in Australian Cropping Systems".  Prior to this he was District Agronomist at Griffith and Hillston in the Riverina for 15 years.
	Ian Taylor is a weed scientist based in Narrabri working across both cotton and grains farming systems.  Ian has recently returned to Australia to work with weed research teams in northern grains and cotton growing regions focussing on the management of herbicide resistance. Ian was the Technology Development Lead for Monsanto, Australia prior to moving to Singapore as the Regional Stewardship Lead for Asia Pacific and North Asia. Ian completed his PhD on the ecology and management of Phalaris paradoxa before joining the cotton CRC at the Australian Cotton Research Institute, where he worked on the development of farming systems involving Roundup Ready and Roundup Ready Flex Cotton.
	Steve Walker is Associate Professor with the newly formed Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation (QAAFI) at The University of Queensland. Formerly Leader of the Weed Science team for Queensland Department of Employment, Economic Development and Innovation and Program Leader in the CRC for Australian Weed Management. Currently leads a weed research program on the issues relating to herbicide resistance, modelling, integrated weed management in grain and cotton farming systems, safe and effective use of herbicides, non-chemical tactics and weed ecology.
	Andrew Wells is Research & Development Manager with Nufarm Australia based in Melbourne.
	Greg Wells has been southern Australian R&D manager with Dow AgroSciences since 1998 . Prior to this Greg worked in field research roles in Bendigo, Vic., Townsville, North Qld, Toowoomba, Qld working on weed control projects in fallow, cropping, aquatic and woody weeds with Dow for 8 years after working  at the Leslie Research Centre, Toowoomba, Qld. for 3 years as a weeds agronomist, researching out-of-patent herbicides for cost-effective fallow weed control. He graduated from the University of Qld (Gatton) with B. App. Sc. (Hons.) in 1987.  Since 1987 he has been actively involved in Weed Society of Queensland (WSQ) and the Weeds Society of Victoria. To date he has presented 9 papers at previous Australian Weeds Conferences, 4 at WSQ seminars and 2 papers at WSQ biennial symposia.

Updated: 25/01/2012

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