Hieracium funding From: The Press | Date: August 25, 2006| Author: CRONSHAW, Tim | Copyright 2006 The Press. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

A lack of funding is proving a stumbling block for farmers trying to weaken the hold of the invasive, creeping weed hieracium on the South Island high country.

The Hieracium Control Trust has successfully released parasites that attack the five weedy species of hieracium.

The charitable trust co-ordinates the research, importing and release of insects and pathogens against hieracium which invades pastoral land on farms and native grasses in conservation areas.

So far, a...

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