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Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Western Australia, Series 4
Keywords
Harvesting, Wheat, Oats, Barley, Lupins, Pisum sativum, Swath harvesting
Disciplines
Agronomy and Crop Sciences
First Page Number
84
Last Page Number
88
ISSN
0021-8618
Abstract
Swathing is a long established method of haarvesting field crops, especially in parts of Europe and North America. It involves cutting the crop when the seed is nearly mature and laying it in a swath or windrow to dry. when the crop has dried it is harvested using conventional harvesting machinery with a pick-up attatchment.
On the Eyre Peninsula of South Australia, an area prone to strong moist sea breezes, swathing barley is a common practice. More farmers along Western Australia's south coast are also swathing barley to reduce losses from conventional harvesting. Pod shattering losses of lupins and field peas can also be reduced by swathing.
Recommended Citation
Snowball, R
(1986)
"Swathing field crops in the south-west,"
Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Western Australia, Series 4: Vol. 27:
No.
3, Article 4.
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