Weeds and pests

Weed control practices

This course provides essential skills for effective weed management, focusing on weed identification, biosecurity, and the tools and techniques necessary for controlling invasive species.

Machinery and equipment biosecurity

Don’t spread weeds. Don’t move the problem from another place to your farm. Learn how weeds and pest organisms transfer from one place to another. Learn how to prevent it. This one-day Tocal course is a must have weed-hygiene check for you and your machinery.

Biosecurity applications

Develop your knowledge and skills in interpreting and applying control measures in a biosecurity plan to protect viticulture enterprises from the entry and spread of pests and diseases.

Grapevine integrated pest and disease management

An interactive, thought-provoking course for wine industry personnel who want to better understand integrated grapevine pest and disease management.

Vineyard integrated weed management

This course is an interactive, thought-provoking course for vineyard personnel including owners, managers, agronomists, supervisors, and farm hands. The course aims to develop your knowledge and skills in the successful and sustainable management of weeds in a vineyard. Learn the latest management skills from leading wine industry expert Liz Riley. The course will explore weed issues in the vineyard context and participants will learn the skills needed to plan, control, report on and monitor the effectiveness of a range of weed control strategies.