Weeds cost farmers $4.8 billion per year: new report

Updated February 11 2019 - 9:45am, first published 9:38am
Parthenium weed and Leucaena takes over a crop in North Queensland, causing loss of productivity for the farmer. Image by Ian Lackington.
Parthenium weed and Leucaena takes over a crop in North Queensland, causing loss of productivity for the farmer. Image by Ian Lackington.

The National Farmers’ Federation is calling on a “smarter and more strategic” national approach to weeds after a new report found the agricultural cost of weeds is $4.8 billion per year, or $13 million a day.

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