Crops

The Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development continues to support the growth and international competitiveness of all crop industries in Western Australia.

With a 2400 kilometre span from its tropical north to its temperate south, WA supports a broad range of cropping industries from rain-fed winter cereals through to irrigated horticultural crops.

In the 2012/13 year the WA cropping industries exported a total of $3.9 billion which comprised: $3.1 billion of cereals, $859 million of pulses, pastures and oilseeds, $142 million of horticultural crops. The major contributors to these exports were wheat ($2.7 billion), canola ($756 million), barley ($377 million), lupins ($42 million), carrots at $48 million, oats ($12 million), and strawberries at $5.5 million.

Articles

Codling moth: declared pest

11 April 2014

Codling moth (Cydia pomonella) is a serious pest of apples and other pome fruit and has the potential to cause severe crop losses.
Glassy-winged sharpshooter: declared pest

16 September 2022

Glassy-winged sharpshooter (Homalodisca vitripennis) is a sucking leafhopper known to be a vector to bacterium Xylella fastidiosa, which causes various serious plant diseases.
Emerging wine grape varieties: opportunities, barriers and potential

20 November 2013

DPIRD has evaluated a number of emerging wine grape varieties for their suitability for production in Western Australia.
Banana freckle: biosecurity alert

18 October 2013

Banana freckle was detected in Dwarf Cavendish banana fruit in the Northern Territory in May 2022. The Northern Territory Government is responding to this new detection.
Growing dragon fruit in Carnarvon

20 June 2014

Dragon fruit, also known as sweet pitahaya, is a stunning looking tropical fruit borne on arboreal cacti with a demonstrated potential for Carnarvon.
Growing bananas in Carnarvon

12 June 2014

'Growing bananas in Carnarvon, Western Australia' is a production manual for growing subtropical bananas.
Carnarvon plantation industry production statistics

12 February 2014

The Carnarvon Horticulture District is located along the fertile delta of the Gascoyne River.
Myrtle rust: Biosecurity alert

8 April 2014

Myrtle rust is a serious disease that infects and kills many plants belonging to the Myrtaceae family including eucalypts, bottlebrushes, paperbarks and peppermint trees.
Management of European earwig

20 February 2014

The European earwig (Forficula auricularia) is native to Europe and has been in Australia from the mid-1850s.
Summer weeds

17 January 2014

Summer weeds can rob subsequent crops of soil nitrogen and stored soil water. They can also reduce crop emergence by causing physical and/or chemical interference at seeding time.