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Common Vine Weeds in Darwin
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Common Vine Weeds in Darwin

During a personal development session, Train Safe NT trainers were out looking for some weeds to build their skills and knowledge of various weeds around the Darwin area.  Without having to look very hard, 5 weed vines were easily found and identified in a drain and water run off area in Winnellie, Northern…

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Online chemical course for the Northern Territory cattle industry

This course is for cattle producers in the Northern Territory Cattle industry. Station workers that use agricultural chemicals like 1080 Doggone dry baits, wet baits and ‘pour-ons’ for tick control in live export.  The pests are wild dogs, pigs, cattle tick and weeds. This course will prepare NT pastoralist…

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Gamba grass

Gamba grass, Darwins worst weed or most destructive weed due to fire and its spread.  Fast growing and furious a bit like the 1 minute video, this is an artistic combination of weed control, Mad max and Pulp fiction rolled into Darwins worst weed, Gamba grass hell.Another take on Gamba grass, both videos…

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Practical video AusChem online Darwin

This video is a good example of the practical test that you have to do for the AusChem online course. Make a video like this, you select the chemical and make sure the video covers the chemical rate from the label, PPE, mixing, measuring, application, wash up and anything relevant to the chemical application.  Watch…

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Update My Chemical Accreditation

If you need to renew or upgrade your chemical ticket so you can spray weeds or get 1080 baits, this course is for you.  The correspondence course can be completed like, we will post you the assessment tasks and you do the written tests in your own time.  The re-fresher course is only for people that…