SA farmer and engineer creates farm machinery to destroy weed seeds during harvest

“Innovative” machinery that destroys weed seeds during harvest is helping crop farmers make herbicide-resistant pest plants a problem of the past.

Weeds cost Australia’s crop farming industry around $3.3 billion each year in management costs and yield losses, according to the University of Adelaide’s Weed Management Research Group.

Determined to find a solution to herbicide-resistant weeds, Kangaroo Island farmer and engineer Nick Berry built a mean, green, weed-destroying machine, aptly named the Seed Terminator.

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