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2026 Western Australian Crop Sowing Guide

Brenda Shackley, Stacey Power, Blakely Paynter, Harmohinder Dhammu, Bronte Wackett, Dion Nicol, Mark Seymour, and Greg Shea

The 2026 Western Australian Crop Sowing Guide has been compiled by officers in the Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development. It provides information to support variety decisions for each of the major crops for the upcoming season.
2025 Western Australian Crop Sowing Guide

Stacey Power, Brenda Shackley, Blakely Paynter, Mark Seymour, Harmohinder Dhammu, and Bronte Wackett

The 2025 Western Australian Crop Sowing Guide has been compiled by officers of the Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development. It provides information to support variety decisions for each of the major crops for the upcoming season.
2024 Western Australian crop sowing guide

Brenda J. Shackley, Stacey Power, Blakely Paynter, Georgina Troup, Mark Seymour, and Harmohinder S. Dhammu

The 2024 Western Australian Crop Sowing Guide has been compiled by officers in the Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development. It provides information to support variety decisions for each of the major crops for the upcoming season.
Environmental weed risk assessment protocol for growing non-indigenous plants in the Western Australian rangelands

Geoff A. Moore Mr, Christine Munday Ms, and Papori Barua Dr

This bulletin is a post-border environmental weed risk assessment (WRA) protocol which is based on the Environmental WRA Protocol developed for the Future Farm Industries Co-operative Research Centre (FFI CRC), but with some changes to reflect the different environment and objectives.

The WRA protocol was ... Read more
2023 Western Australian crop sowing guide

B. Shackley, B. Paynter, J. Bucat, M. Seymour, and H. Dhammu

Welcome to the 2023 edition of the Crop Sowing Guide for WA, which introduces 31 new variety releases: two wheat, seven barley (one as feed only and six currently under malt evaluation), 15 canola, three hay-only oat and four lentil varieties.

The Crop Sowing Guide ... Read more
Mosaic agriculture: a guide to irrigated crop and forage production in northern WA

Geoff A. Moore Mr, Clinton K. Revell Dr, Christopher Schelfhout Dr, Christopher Ham Mr, Samuel Crouch Mr, and Meredith M. Guthrie

The Bulletin is a comprehensive guide for pastoralists, agronomists, agribusiness and the broader community on the growing of irrigated crops and pastures within a rangeland pastoral setting.

Dispersed irrigation developments on stations throughout the northern rangelands (sometimes referred to as mosaic agriculture) has created opportunities ... Read more
2022 Western Australian crop sowing guide

B. Shackley, B. Paynter, J. Bucat, M. Seymour, and S. Power

Welcome to the 2022 edition of the Crop Sowing Guide for WA, which introduces 27 new variety releases: three wheat, nine barley (three recently accredited for malt and six currently under malt evaluation), twelve canola, two field pea and a lentil.

The Crop Sowing Guide ... Read more
Frost identification guide for cereals

Ben Biddulph and Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development, Western Australia

Frost damage reduces crop yield and grain quality. Early identification of symptoms allows timely crop salvage decisions to be made.
Plant diseases impacting oaten hay production in Australia - a review

Kylie Chambers and Geoff J. Thomas

In Australia, there are a range of fungal, bacterial and viral pathogens that infect oats, impacting on yield and quality of grain and hay crops. The overall impact of these diseases on oaten hay production is not well researched or understood, especially compared to that ... Read more
2021 Western Australian Crop Sowing Guide

Brenda Shackley, Blakely Paynter, Jackie Bucat, Georgina Troup, Mark Seymour, and Andrew Blake

This edition of the 2021 Crop Sowing Guide includes the major crops grown in WA - wheat, barley, canola, oat, lupins and pulses. The publication aims to provide information to support growers with decisions on the best choice of variety for each of the major ... Read more
Frost identification guide for canola and pulses

Ben Biddulph and Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development, Western Australia

Frost damage reduces crop yield and grain quality. Early identification of symptoms allows timely crop salvage decisions to be made.
2020 Western Australian Crop Sowing Guide

Brenda Shackley

This edition of the 2020 Crop Sowing Guide includes the major crops grown in WA - wheat, barley, canola, oat and now a new section on lupin and pulses. The publication aims to provide information to support growers with decisions on the best choice of ... Read more
Canola agronomy research in Western Australia

Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development, Western Australia; Jackie Bucat; and Andrew Blake

The Tactical Break Crop Agronomy Project and the Achieving Stable and High Canola Yield Across the Rainfall Zones of WA Project were initiatives originating from a Western Panel Spring Tour of the low rainfall zone. The panel was focussed on investing in research and development ... Read more
2019 Barley variety sowing guide for Western Australia

Blakely Paynter, Georgia Trainor, and Jeremy Curry

This bulletin is designed as a reference to help determine which barley variety to grow in your region. It provides market feedback, relative grain yield and grain quality comparisons, disease ratings, agronomic information and herbicide tolerance ratings for all malt barley varieties segregated in Western ... Read more
2018 Barley variety fact sheets for Western Australia

Blakely Paynter, Georgia Trainor, Raj Malik, Jeremy Curry, Sanjiv Gupta, Sarah Collins, Daniel Huberli, Harmohinder Dhammu, Geoff Thomas, and Ben Biddulph

This bulletin is designed as a reference to help determine which barley variety to grow in your region. It provides market feedback, relative grain yield comparisons, disease ratings, agronomic information and herbicide tolerance ratings for all malt barley varieties segregated in Western Australia (WA) and ... Read more
2018 Barley variety sowing guide for Western Australia

Blakely Paynter, Georgia Trainor, and Jeremy Curry

This variety guide is designed as a reference to help determine which barley variety to grow in your region. It provides market feedback, relative grain yield comparisons, disease ratings, agronomic information and herbicide tolerance ratings for all malt barley varieties segregated in Western Australia (WA) ... Read more
2017 Barley variety fact sheets for Western Australia

Blakely Paynter, Georgia Trainor, Raj Malik, Jeremy Curry, Sanjiv Gupta, Daniel Huberli, Sarah J. Collins, Harmohinder Dhammu, and Ben Biddulph

This bulletin is designed to highlight the agronomic traits (plant height, head loss risk, grain yield, disease resistance, phenology and herbicide tolerance) present in malt, food and feed barley varieties of relevance to Western Australian barley growers. Each varietal fact sheet also contains comments about ... Read more
2017 Barley variety sowing guide for Western Australia

Blakely Paynter and Georgia Trainor

This variety guide is designed as a reference to help determine which barley variety to grow in your region. It provides market feedback, relative grain yield comparisons, disease ratings, agronomic information and herbicide tolerance ratings for all malt and food barley varieties segregated in Western ... Read more
2016 Barley variety fact sheets for Western Australia

Blakely Paynter, Georgia Trainor, Sanjiv Gupta, Sarah J. Collins, Harmohinder Dhammu, and Ben Biddulph

This bulletin is designed to highlight the agronomic traits (grain yield, disease resistance, phenology, herbicide tolerance) present in malt, food and feed barley varieties of relevance to Western Australian barley growers. Each varietal fact sheet also contains comments about market use, target seed rate in ... Read more
Bioenergy and carbon farming opportunities in the Pilbara

Robert Sudmeyer, Kim Brooksbank, and David Rogers

The Pilbara region covers 270 000 square kilometres of north-west Western Australia. Its main agricultural land use is pastoralism, with beef cattle grazing native pastures. Currently, only 24km² is under irrigation, with irrigated fodder the principal crop, but this could expand to 100km². This expansion ... Read more
Making better fertiliser decisions for cropping systems in Western Australia. Soil test – crop response relationships and critical soil test values and ranges

Geoff Anderson, Ross Brennan, Richard Bell, and Wen Chen

The better fertiliser decisions for cropping project (BFDC) (2009-2012) was completed to provide comprehensive information to improve fertiliser decisions for the cropping industry in Australia (Speirs et al. 2013a). The WA component provides interpretation of results from crop nutrient application experiments for the WA cropping ... Read more
2016 Barley variety sowing guide for Western Australia

Blakely Paynter, Georgia Trainor, Sanjiv Gupta, Sarah J. Collins, and Harmohinder Dhammu

This sowing variety guide is designed as a reference to help determine which barley variety to grow in your region. It provides market feedback, relative grain yield comparisons, disease ratings, agronomic information and herbicide tolerance ratings for all malting and food barley varieties segregated in ... Read more
Soil acidity : a guide for WA farmers and consultants.

Chris Gazey, Stephen Davies, and Ron Master

Our first edition of Soil acidity: a guide for WA farmers and consultants in 2009 was a significant publication which brought together current knowledge on the management of soil acidity in WA in a user-friendly book. Three thousand printed copies were distributed and an interactive ... Read more
Audit of WA agricultural lime quality 2013

Chris Gazey

Applying agricultural lime is the most economical way of ameliorating low soil pH in broadscale agriculture in Western Australia (WA). In WA, agricultural lime is usually limesand from coastal sand dunes, crushed limestone from coastal deposits or crushed dolomitic lime (usually marketed as dolomite) from ... Read more
Barley variety guide for WA 2013

Blakely Paynter, Andrea Hills, Harmohinder Dhammu, and Sanjiv Gupta

This publication presents general information on market demand by industry sector, variety and Port Zone for each of the malting barley varieties that will potentially be segregated in Western Australia at the 2013/14 harvest (Tables 1, 2 and 3).

This information is presented on behalf ... Read more