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.

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  • Canola paddock with weeds

    Managing weeds in emerging crops

    17 August 2017

    Following the extended dry conditions this autumn, weeds are now emerging and becoming a challenge for growers to manage in paddocks that may have patchy crops, crops with staggered emergence or no

  • Resistant wild radish

    Developing an integrated weed management (IWM) plan

    15 February 2011

    Integrated weed management (IWM) is a system for managing weeds over the long term, and is particularly useful for managing and minimising herbicide resistance.

  • Live annual ryegrass plants after spraying with glyphosate

    Herbicide resistance and susceptibility testing

    26 July 2016

    Testing for herbicide susceptibility allows you to determine what herbicide options are still available to control weeds on your farm.

  • A boom spray in use, spraying a paddock before seeding

    Spray-topping declared plants

    4 November 2013

    Weeds sprayed with a sub-lethal dose of a phenoxy, hormone type herbicide appear to become more palatable to stock.

  • Sheep grazing on pasture

    Spray-grazing declared plants

    4 November 2013

    Weeds sprayed with a sub-lethal dose of a phenoxy, hormone-type herbicide appear to become more palatable to stock.

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