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Roaded catchments to improve reliability of farm dams
David Stanton
Maintaining reliable on-farm water supplies is an on-going challenge for landholders throughout Western Australia. Improving reliability of dams by constructing a roaded catchment is one of the most cost-effective methods of improving the performance and reliability of a farm water supply.
A roaded catchment is ... Read more
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Distribution and Abundance of Pest Animals in Western Australia: A Survey of Institutional Knowledge
Andrew P. Woolnough, Garry S. Gray, Tim J. Lowe, Winifred E. Kirkpatrick, Ken Rose, and Gary R. Martin
Data on the distribution and abundance of selected pest animals were obtained for the state of Western Australia. We used institutional knowledge from the Department of Agriculture (DAWA) and the Department of Conservation and Land Management (CALM) to acquire this important information.A two-part survey process ... Read more
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Wheatbelt waterwise = saltwise : gardening guide
John Colwill and Juana Roe
As a result of agricultural clearing, many country towns are now feeling the effects of rising groundwater and the salt that it carries. Salinity has been identified as Australia’s number one environmental problem. While most people think that salinity means land lost to agriculture, it ... Read more
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Evaporation basin guidelines for disposal of saline water
JDA Consultant Hydrologists and Edward Hauck
The purpose of this guideline is to provide information and criteria for evaporation basin planning, design, construction, monitoring, and maintenance for purposes of disposal of water and storage of disposed salts in dryland agricultural areas of Western Australia. The application of the guidelines will assist ... Read more
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Characteristics of perrennial grasses [poster]
T M. Lacey and Geoff Allan Moore
Growth Characteristics of perennial C3 grasses: this table presents information on a range of perennial grass species but it is not a recommendation for them. Consider species characteristics in relation to local conditions and then source specific variety information before making decisions. It is suggest ... Read more
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Proceedings of the national workshop on footrot, Perth 19-21 August 2003
R K. Mitchell, A R B Higgs, and A R. Mercy
The financial support of Australian Wool Innovation Ltd (AWI) made it possible for representatives of a range of organisations from across Australia to meet and review ovine footrot. This national workshop held in Perth in August 2003, was the first of its kind for several ... Read more
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Re-assessment of carrying capacities in the Ashburton River Catchment
Alan L. Payne, A M E van Vreeswyk, and K A. Leighton
Potential carrying capacities for land systems in the catchment of the Ashburton River were first estimated in 1983 as a result of a rangeland survey of the area undertaken during 1976, 1977 and 1978. Potential carrying capacity (termed capability capacity in the 1988 report) is ... Read more
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Spectacular recovery in the Ord River catchment
A L. Payne, I W. Watson, and P E. Novelly
Regeneration work on severely damaged country in what is now known as the Ord River Regeneration Reserve (ORRR) commenced in 1960. The ORRR is in the East Kimberley area of Western Australia with an associated small area in the Northern Territory. The work included strip ... Read more
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Groundwater trends in the Esperance sandplain and mallee sub-regions
John Andrew Simons and A Alderman
The South Coast Regional Initiative Planning Team (SCRIPT) has divided the South Coast region of Western Australia into six sub-regions. The Esperance Sandplain and Mallee subregions encompass the Esperance agricultural district, which contains about 1.5 million hectares of agricultural land. This publication describes the groundwater ... Read more
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An inventory and condition survey of the Pilbara region, Western Australia
A M E van Vreeswyk, K A. Leighton, A L. Payne, and P Hennig
The inventory and condition survey of the Pilbara region, undertaken by the Department of Agriculture, Western Australia between 1995 and 1999, describes and maps the natural resources of the region’s pastoral leasehold land. This survey report provides a baseline record of the existence and condition ... Read more
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Pastoral resources and their management in the Pilbara region of Western Australia
A M E van Vreeswyk, Alan Payne, and K A. Leighton
This report is a product of the rangeland survey of the Pilbara area of Western Australia which was conducted jointly by the Department of Agriculture and the Department of Land Administration ... in 1995-1999. This report is primarily intended to be used to assist pastoralists ... Read more
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Wild dog control facts behind the strategies
The following information provides background to how strategies for controlling wild dogs1 have been developed over the years, not just in Western Australia, but also other parts of Australia. It is based on scientific studies, including detailed evaluations of techniques and strategies, and also considerable ... Read more
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Dam design for pastoral stock water supplies
J S. Addison, R J. Law, and G B. Eliot
These notes provide information on many components of water harvesting storage systems designed for use in semi-arid areas. The notion of a water harvesting and storage system is deliberately emphasised. No single design component can be considered in isolation if the goal of a drought-proof ... Read more
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Saltland pastures in Australia, a practical guide
E G. Barrett-Lennard, A D. Bathgate, and C V. Malcolm
Farmer choices for saltland pastures, Salinity and options for saltland in Australia - Factors affecting plant growth in saltland - Establishing saltland pastures - Grazing value of saltland pastures - Productivity of saltland pastures - Assessing the economic value of saltland pastures - Common names ... Read more
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Sorption of phosphorus by soils : how it is measured in Western Australia
Michael D A Bolland, D G. Allen, and N J. Barrow
Most soils used for agriculture in Western Australia had insufficient indigenous native phosphorus P for the introduced agricultural plant species used in the region so fertiliser P had to be applied. This bulletin covers how water-soluble P WSP fertilisers are made, and how the P ... Read more
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Greenhouse, land management and carbon sequestration in Western Australia
Department of Agriculture and Food, WA; Department of Conservation and Land management; Forrest Products Commission; Department of Environment, Water and Catchment Protection; and Anne Bennett
This report examines options for greenhouse emissions abatement by changing land management practices and establishing terrestrial organic carbon sinks in Western Australia.
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Greenhouse, land management and carbon sequestration in Western Australia
Department of Agriculture, Western Australia; Department of Conservation and Land Management; Forest Products Commission; and Department of Environment, Water and Catchment Protection
This report examines options for greenhouse emissions abatement by changing land management practices and establishing terrestrial organic carbon sinks in Western Australia.It recommends the following priorities to the Greenhouse Task Force.? Expand the already successful Kyoto Protocol Article 3.3 plantations, as carbon sinks.? Determine the ... Read more
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Agricultural processing and the Western Australian economy
Nazrul Islam and Peter Johnson
This paper investigated the impact that an expansion in agricultural processing would have on the Western Australian economy by developing and applying a Computable General Equilibrium economic model of Western Australia (called WAM). WAM was used to simulate the effects of a $1 million expansion ... Read more
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On-station production of native Speargrass hay in Western Australia
G L. Krebs, Robert R. Rouda, and S P. Van Wyngaarden
This report documents the practical and economic feasibility of on-station harvesting and production of speargrass hay and haylage and its subsequent feeding to cattle and sheep in the extensive regions of south-eastern Western Australia. Four hundred and ten bales weighing an average 275 kg were ... Read more
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Farming systems to manage salinity, research results 2003
Richard O'Donnell
Covering: Low charge cropping systems project Productive use of saline land project Warm season crops project Farm and forestry revegetation project
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Sustainability issues for agriculture in Western Australia
Anne Bennett, Ross Kingwell, and Ross George
Agriculture has been and will continue to be a major component of economic activity in several regions in Western Australia, and agricultural communities will remain an important part of the social fabric and landscape of the State. Promoting the sustainability of agriculture is likely to ... Read more
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Review of soil conservation legislation : Carnarvon horticultural area
Jean-Pierre Clement
Lower Gascoyne Management Strategy The Carnarvon horticultural area has suffered considerable erosion damage following flooding of the Gascoyne River. Factors contributing to the erosion include a move to greater vegetable production, the carrying out of unauthorised earthworks and general confusion about the laws that apply ... Read more
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Agwest revegetation monitoring activity : report
Caroline Hatherly; Department of Agriculture and Food, Western Australia; and Neil Guise
This annual report summarises the landcare vegetation and revegetation projects that were completed at the end of 2001 in the Peel Harvey Catchment, Western Australia. Revegetation activities included: streamlining, vegetation belts, alley farming, tree lots, revegetation, wetland rehabilitation. Activity was recorded for Coolup, Harvey River, ... Read more
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Rangeways - community based planning for ecologically sustainable land use in the Western Australian goldfields
Alec Holm, Margaret H. Friedel, Donald Burnside, Jennifer Duffecy, David Fitzgerald, and Greg Brennan
Ways to identity and reconcile opportunities tor different land uses while protecting biologically sensitive areas were researched within the Western Australian rangeland from1995 to 2000. The research was undertaken within a framework of community-based regional planning and was underpinned by policies of ecological sustainable development.The ... Read more
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