Wild Oat Resistance

In western Canada, more dollars are spent on herbicides for wild oat than for any other weed. Neil Harker, weed ecology and crop management research scientist with Agriculture Canada, says consequently, the most prevalent herbicide-resistant weed in western Canada is wild oat. I caught up with him to find out just how big a problem it is.

Interview with Neil Harker (2:57 minutes) (1.35 Mb)

Neil Harker is a research scientist with Agriculture Canada.

Source: Alberta Agriculture and Rural Development