Dr. John C. Broster is a Senior Technical Officer at the School of Agricultural and Wine Sciences at Charles Sturt University. After graduating from the University of Adelaide, he completed a Master's Degree at CSU investigating herbicide resistance in wild oats in southern NSW. Since then he has participated in several research projects including haystack fire prevention, the influence of stripper header fronts on stubble micro-climate,  herbicide resistance to knockdown herbicides and herbicide resistance in weeds of rice. He manages the CSU Herbicide Resistance Testing Service and is involved in several of the Gulbali Institute's integrated weed management and agronomic research projects. His other research interests include using GPS and remote sensing to track the movement of livestock and the interaction of mother and offspring.