Plant nutrition

Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development conducts and supports research into the agronomic requirements of a range of crops to provide information on crop nutrition to ensure optimum yields and quality. Plants require a number of nutrients to successfully grow and produce a crop. Western Australia's weather conditions can result in poor soil fertility and limited water supply which restrict a plants ability to uptake and use nutrients.

Articles

  • Oat plants showing symptoms of acute phosphorous deficiency including necosis moving down from old leaf tip

    Nearly all soils in Western Australia are phosphorus deficient in their natural state but the continual use of phosphorus fertiliser means acute deficiency in broadacre crops is rare, with the exce

  • Young leaves turn pale green and wilted, then die back from the tip

    Most soils in Western Australia were copper deficient in their natural state.