Integrated Weed Management For Councils And Local Government

Councils across Australia have a different ways of engaging with spraying contractors and landowners, often leading to an opaque process that lacks efficiency, coordination, oversight, and governance.

Contractors often lack the tools to effectively plan and coordinate spraying jobs, and regularly rely on multiple different systems for planning, scheduling, timesheets, collecting and store compliance data.

Around $180 million is spent at a federal and local level annually to combat invasive weeds.

What Councils Need To Manage Weeds More Effectively

Every council needs a centralised strategy that not only helps them plan, schedule and continuously track data to control weeds across their local shire council. What usually happens is that the council gets a disrupted view of the progress and tracking of the weed control which leads to less effective weed management.

Why A Centralised Weed Management Strategy Is So Important

When a council adopts this strategy they see more efficiency and less duplication across the management of weeds. This strategy also provides a high level of visibility and tracking of a council's weed management officers or contractors which improves the outcomes for the council.

How Open Road Can Help A Council 

Open Road is an all-in-one solution for managing the fight against noxious weeds in Australia.

Whether you are a council, land-manager, or contractor, OpenRoad empowers you manage environmental tasks more efficiently.

OpenRoad allows you to create assessment records (digital twins) of geographical assets and record data points (locations, quantities, photographs) about weeds, pests, and land management activities. Those records can be turned in jobs and assigned to contractors or internal teams, along with weather, scheduling and compliance data.