He is the weed man.
Teeswater native Blair Scott is the champion when it comes to weed identification.
He scored top marks at a special competition that pits agricultural University students against each other in a competition designed to broaden their applied skills in agriculture.
In addition to Scott scoring the highest individual score, his team from the University of Guelph also had the highest team score.
Scott says the competition took place Seaford Delaware and pitted the University of Guelph team against some pretty impressive competition from agriculture students at Penn State, Cornell, Virginia Tech and North Carolina State.
He says all students participated in weed identification, herbicide identification, farmer problem solving, and sprayer calibration.
For weed identification, the students had to identify a particular species and also choose a correct biological characteristic of that weed.
In herbicide identification, students were shown injured crops and weeds and had to identify the herbicide that caused the injury, name its chemical class and mode of action, and choose a chemical or physiological property of the herbicide.
During the farmer problem solving event, students were presented with customer complaint scenarios in invasive weed management
Scott says this competition provides a vast amount of experience that students can use in their future employment whether in weed management or the agricultural sector.
