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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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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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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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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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Survey of Western Australian agricultural lime sources
Chris Gazey and Dave Gartner
As a service to WA wheatbelt farmers, to assist with cost effective management of soil acidity, a survey of agricultural lime availability and quality was conducted by the Department of Agriculture and Food, Western Australia.
The quality of agricultural lime surveyed varied widely between pits. ... Read more
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Diagnosing crop and pasture problems with Detective Doug
Doug Sawkins
There are numerous publications for diagnosing crop and pasture growth problems. Although they are excellent for experienced people, they can be time consuming and possibly misleading for the less experienced.
Many guidebooks assume that the user has already decided that their problem falls into the ... Read more
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Identifying sub-tropical grass seedlings
Brad Wintle, Geoff Moore, and Phil Nichols
There is considerable interest in growing sub-tropical (or warm season) perennial grasses for out-of-season green feed, especially on the south coast and in the northern agricultural region (NAR). They consist of two types: creeping grasses, which spread by either above ground runners (stolons) or below ... Read more
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Root disease under intensive cereal production systems
Bill MacLeod, Vivien Vanstone, Ravjit Khangura, and Ciara Beard
This Bulletin describes symptoms and control methods for the most commonly encountered cereal root diseases in Western Australia:
- rhizoctonia bare patch
- root lesion nematode
- take-all
- fusarium crown rot
- cereal cyst nematode
- common root rot ... Read more
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Producing lupins
Peter White, Bob French, Amelia McLarty, and Grains Research and Development Corporation
The book contains detailed information on lupin establishment, weed control, disease management and harvesting. It also provides an excellent background to the history of lupins in Western Australia, the development of the plant and its adaptation to the Western Australian environment
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