Are there any nuisance plants that proliferate after flooding?
Well I guess lignum, although at times when there’s leaf on it, it’s handy for the stock. It certainly spreads the lignum and the coolabah and suckers and they are becoming probably more of a problem than they have in previous years. Like a lot of woody shrubs, things have certainly increased markedly, not on the flooded country but I noticed going into Bourke here now that some of that Darling flood country that’s had a couple of big floods on it in recent years, there’s quite a lot of scrub growing on it. Question: Have you burnt your country to control woody weeds? Answer: I suppose you can control it if you spend enough money on it, but it reaches a point where, round on the red country where the turpentine and hop bushes are, have been such a problem. Here we’re blade ploughing and buffle grass sowing this country down here was done two years ago and it’s truly covered with buffle grass on it now and there’s a little bit of hop bush coming back into it now. In the winter, you’d pr
