General property management

• First time fencing unravelled - Farmnote 310
• Stocking rate guidelines for rural small holdings : Swan Coastal Plain and Darling Scarp - Miscellaneous publication 2/2000
• Buying a small landholding
• Environmental impact of nitrogen and phosphorus fertilisers in high rainfall areas [Reviewed August 2005]
• Summer growing perennial grasses in the central Swan Coastal Plain and Hills region
• Annual pasture establishment for small landholdings in the central Swan Coastal Plain and Hills Region
• Soil testing : a guide to fertiliser use

Pastures, crops and soils

• Alternative annual pasture legumes
• Environmental impact of nitrogen and phosphorus fertilisers in high rainfall areas [Reviewed August 2005]
• Summer growing perennial grasses in the central Swan Coastal Plain and Hills region
• Annual pasture establishment for small landholdings in the central Swan Coastal Plain and Hills Region
• Oaten hay production for small landholdings in the central Swan Coastal Plain and Hills Region
• Soil testing : a guide to fertiliser use
• Pasture establishment how to get it right Farmnote 308
• Perennials: rules of thumb
• Rhodes grass survives hot fires
• Sowing Annual Pastures in the Swan Canning Catchment
• The amount of stubble needed to reduce wind erosion
• Optimum soil pH for crop plants
• Looking at liming: consider the rate
  

Caring for Livestock

• Sheep and Goats: What you need to know 
• Water quality for farm domestic and livestock use
• Livestock on small landholdings
• Owning cattle on a small property
• Keeping chickens in the backyard
• Livestock identification and movement : pigs
• Registering and updating a brand
• Livestock identification and movement : sheep and goats
• Livestock identification and movement :cattle and buffalo
• Control of body lice (Bovicola ovis) on some new breeds of sheep
• Biosecurity in the livestock industries
• Salinity levels for stock

Farm biosecurity, weeds and pests

• Biosecurity for small landholders : protecting you and your property from pests, diseases and weeds
• How to control Paterson's Curse
• Control of Caltrop
• Blanket wipers for tall weed control
• Fox baiting
• Options for rabbit control
• Feral pigeon control options
• Control of Mediterranean fruit fly (medfly) in backyard
• Sending specimens for identification
• Pest snails and slugs of Western Australia
• Control of pest snails and slugs
• Cockroaches and their control
• Rabbit control in urban and semi-urban areas
• Feral pigs and 1080 baiting : what you need to know
• Control of bush flies by dung beetles
• Use of fencing to protect crops and pasture from rabbit in bush remnants
• Guide to the safe use of 1080 poison
• Wetlands not weedlands
• Common seasonal pests : your guide to prevent the spread of animal and plant pests, diseases and weeds
• Household and garden pests

Orchard management

• Fruit growing for the small landholder
• Training and pruning deciduous fruit trees in the home garden
• Citrus fruit loss in the home garden
• Basic deciduous fruit tree pruning for small landholders
• Basic backyard fruit tree growing
• Growing healthy fruit trees in the home garden
• Control of Mediterranean fruit fly (medfly) in backyards
• Propagation equipment for horticulture
  

Managing native vegetation and farm forestry

• Bringing back the bush
• Gravel Pit Rehabilitation
• Site assessment for successful revegetation: for agricultural regions with less than 600 mm rainfall
• Site preparation for successful revegetation: for agricultural regions with less than 600 mm rainfall
• Direct seeding of native plants for revegetation
• Weed control for successful revegetation: for agricultural regions with less than 600 mm rainfall
• Selecting tree varieties for small landholders
• The value and benefits of healthy farm bush
• Vegetation buffer zones
• Direct seeding native trees and shrubs
• No. 1: Growing eucalypts for high-grade sawlogs [Reviewed July 2005]
• No. 2: Preparing sites for tree planting [Reviewed July 2005]
• No. 3: Thinning for sawlogs [Reviewed May 2005]
• No. 4: Pruning trees for sawlogs [Reviewed May 2005]
  

Getting to know Noteworthy

The Small Landholder Information Service (SLIS) has teamed up with Kondinin Group to deliver a series of technical notes on everything from rearing cattle to building fences. The resultant Noteworthy partnership is designed to provide more information to help quench the almost insatiable small landholder thirst for knowledge. It will complement the existing Farmnote publications.

The Noteworthy series merges the work of Kondinin Groups expert agriculture researchers and writers with the experience and knowledge of the SLIS team and associated rural networks, DAFWA staff and feedback from participants and SLIS clients.

The information is presented in a reader-friendly format with clear photographs and diagrams which provide landholders with quick-reference material when wanting to learn more about subjects like sharpening a chainsaw or growing productive pasture.

The aim of the SLIS and Kondinin Group partnership is to help small landholders operate their farms in an efficient, sustainable and hopefully, enjoyable manner. Through the Noteworthy series, Farmnotes, existing publications, events and links SLIS and Kondinin Group are developing a comprehensive programme for small landholders to improve their skills and knowledge.

The Noteworthy series as listed is also available free on Kondinin Groups web site www.farmingahead.com.au in the specialised Small Landholder portal.

Water

• Grassed waterways
• Furrow sowing for improved crops and pastures on water repellent soils
• Efficiency of sprinkler irrigation systems
• Water supplies on small properties
• Managing water repellent soils
• Using windbreaks to reduce evaporation from farm dams
• Designing for reliable water supplies
• Farm dams in Western Australia
• Dam design for pastoral stock water supplies
• Salinity levels for stock 
• Emergency chlorination
• Water supplies for irrigation