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Geraldton Regional Office

Contact Details

20 Gregory St
GERALDTON Western Australia 6530
PO Box 110
GERALDTON Western Australia 6531

Phone: +61 8 9956 8555
Email: gpower@agric.wa.gov.au

Regional Manager:Mike Bowley
Phone: 0429 838 596

Office Brief

The Geraldton Office services the northern portion of the agricultural region of Western Australia.

The district is bounded to the west by the Indian Ocean and to the north and east by pastoral lease country. It covers an area of 3 million hectares in the Shires of Chapman Valley, Greenough, Irwin, Mingenew, Morawa, Mullewa and Northampton.

Average annual rainfall ranges from 500mm on the coast to 300 mm along the eastern margin. The annual rain fed growing season is from May to October.

Soils are inherently infertile, comprising heavily eroded granitic soils in the east (cleared area 450,000 hectares), undulating sandstone based sandplain (cleared area 725,000 hectares) in the medium rainfall parts interspersed with loamy sands formed in river valleys (cleared area 450,00 hectares) and coastal dunes with alluvial plains (cleared area 135,000 hectares).

The annual gross value of production in the district is approximately $400 million. Wheat is the major commodity grown in rotation with lupins, canola and barley or in a mixed cropping/livestock system.

The district carries approximately 1.5 million sheep and 30,000 cattle. Sheep and cattle graze annual medic and subterranean clover based pastures in the winter and crop stubbles and pasture areas in the summer.

There is a small but expanding horticulture industry producing tomatoes, melons, table grapes, native flowers and mangoes.

Services

The office provides agricultural research, extension and protection services.

Information services include:

  • Market information
  • High yielding crop packages
  • Quality grain packages
  • Natural resource management
  • Weed control strategies
  • Pest and disease control strategies

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