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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.
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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
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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, and Samuel Crouch Mr
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
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Wheat variety guide for WA 2012
Brenda Shackley, Sarah Ellis, Christine Zaicou, Harmohinder Dhammu, Manisha Shankar, and Mohammad Amjad
The wheat variety guide summarises performance characteristics of commercially available wheats which have undergone testing in the National Variety Testing Project (NVT), and Department of Agriculture and Food (DAFWA) wheat agronomy project.
This information includes variety summaries, agronomic, disease and herbicide tolerance characteristics and medium ... Read more
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Subsurface compaction a guide for WA farmers and consultants
Stephen Davies and Alison Lacey
For plants to grow in agricultural soils, roots and emerging shoots must be able to force their way through the soil. In soils of high strength, this growth is physically restricted. High strength soils may be due to natural soil characteristics and conditions or develop ... Read more
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Growing oats in Western Australia for hay and grain
Raj Malik, Blakely Paynter, Cindy Webster, and Amelia McLarty
The oat industry in Western Australia has made phenomenal progress in recent years with the discovery of new markets, the release of several high yielding varieties and the development of agronomic guidelines through rigorous research programs. Oat production in Western Australia for the domestic and ... Read more
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Barley variety guide for WA 2012
Blakely Paynter, Andrea Hills, and Harmohinder Dhammu
This variety guide is designed as a quick reference to help growers determine which barley variety to grow in their region. It provides domestic and international market feedback, relative grain yield comparisons, disease ratings, agronomic information and herbicide tolerance ratings for all malting barley varieties, ... Read more
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Wheat variety guide for WA 2011
Brenda Shackley, Sarah Ellis, Christine Zaicou, Harmohinder Dhammu, and Manisha Shankar
The wheat variety guide summarises performance characteristics of commercially available wheats which have undergone testing in the National Variety Trials Project (NVT), breeding organisations crop variety testing and Department of Agriculture and Food (DAFWA) variety specific agronomy projects.
This information includes variety summaries, agronomic, disease ... Read more
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Growing biserrula to improve grain and livestock production
Angelo Loi, Natalie Hogg, Clinton Revell, and Diana Fedorenko
Biserrula pelecinus is a new genus of pasture legume which was developed for commercial agriculture by a team of Perth-based legume pasture scientists in the early 1990s. Biserrula is an annual pasture legume that is found in natural grasslands of the Mediterranean Basin, frequently on ... Read more
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Wheat variety guide 2010 Western Australia
Christine Zaicou, Steve Penny, Brenda Shackley, Sarah Ellis, Shahajahan Miyan, Harmohinder Dhammu, Manisha Shankar, and Darshan Sharma
This guide summarises performance characteristics of commercially available wheats which have undergone testing in the National Variety Testing Project (NVT), breeding organisations crop variety testing and Department of Agriculture and Food (DAFWA) variety specific agronomy projects. This information includes variety summaries, agronomic, disease and herbicide ... Read more
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Wheat variety guide 2009 Western Australia
Ben Curtis, Steve Penny, Christine Zaicou, Harmohinder Dhammu, Sarah Ellis, Dorthe Jorgensen, Shahajahan Miyan, Brenda Shackley, and Darshan Sharma
This guide summarises performance characteristics of commercially available wheats which have undergone testing in the National Variety Testing Project (NVT), breeding organisations crop variety testing and Department of Agriculture and Food (DAFWA) variety specific agronomy projects. This information includes variety summaries, agronomic, disease and herbicide ... Read more
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Lucerne guidelines for Western Australia principles for integrating a perennial pasture into broadacre dryland farming systems
Diana Fedorenko, Perry Dolling, Christopher Loo, Tom Bailey, and Roy Latta
Lucerne, often regarded as the queen of forages, has been used in agriculture for centuries. In Western Australia, however, its potential has never been fully realised despite its well-documented ability to dewater soils and reduce groundwater recharge. Over the years adoption has been limited by ... Read more
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Soil pH in northern and southern areas of the WA wheatbelt
Chris Gazey and Joel Andrew
More than 80% of the topsoils sampled fall below the critical surface pHCaCl2 of 5.5 in the northern and southern wheatbelt study areas, with more in the south than the north. These results confirm soil acidity is a serious concern throughout the WA wheatbelt when ... Read more
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