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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  • Baling crop residue directly from the header

    Crop weeds: weed management at harvest

    29 May 2012

    This management strategy provides an opportunity to control weed seed set in the pasture and during harvest.

  • Doublegee seedling

    Doublegee

    3 February 2011

    Doublegee or spiny emex is a significant weed in Western Australia. It is a vigorous annual herb with a strong tap root and a long, fleshy, hairless stem.

  • Herbicide resistance

    Herbicide resistance

    31 January 2011

    Herbicide resistance is the inherited ability of an individual plant to survive a herbicide application that would kill a normal population of the same species.

  • Bunt infected wheat seeds appear greyish brown with soot-like spores inside

    Smut and bunt diseases of cereal - biology, identification and management

    13 December 2012

    Cereal smut and bunt diseases are caused by fungi which parasitise the host plant and produce masses of soot-like spores in the leaves, grains or ears.

  • Orange leaf rust pustules on barley leaves

    Implications of new barley leaf rust pathotype

    12 November 2013

    This fact sheet has been prepared to provide information about a new barley leaf rust pathotype detected in Western Australia in 2016.

  • Crown rot in wheat appears as scattered white heads

    Crop diseases: forecasts and management

    11 December 2013

    Information is provided here to assist management of diseases and viruses that occur in broadacre crops grown in Western Australia - cereals (wheat, barley, oats and triticale), pulses (field pea,

  • Null

    Registered foliar fungicides for cereals in Western Australia

    19 November 2013

    Which foliar fungicide active ingredients are registered for which cereal diseases in WA?

  • Leaf rust on leaves at Northampton Western Australia 2013

    Managing stripe rust and leaf rust in wheat in Western Australia

    13 December 2012

    Stripe rust (Puccinia striiformis f. sp. tritici) and leaf rust (Puccinia triticina) can be a significant threat to wheat crops in Western Australia in some seasons.

  • Future farming systems for the eastern wheatbelt

    7 December 2020

    This long term project aims to evaluate the long term productivity, profitability and sustainability of lower input regenerative and intensive ag-tech systems against current district practice and

  • Windmill grass in fallow

    Windmill grass

    23 May 2012

    Windmill grass (Chloris truncata) is a native species and is the tenth most common summer weed species in the Western Australian wheatbelt.

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