Herbicide resistance may be growing in New Zealand

Embargoed until: Publicly released: 2023-02-28 03:00

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Although Australia and New Zealand recorded their first cases of herbicide resistance around the same time, Australia has since then had many more cases of herbicide resistance than New Zealand, potentially due to a couple of factors that have shielded NZ thus far. However, NZ researchers say there’s more evidence that greater resistance problems are growing within NZ’s crop-growing and grape-growing industries, and call for more research and testing.