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

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
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.
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.
GRDC Research Updates 2017: Improving adoption of IWM practices for managing emerging weeds in the western region

16 February 2017

This project aims to determine the spread of emerging summer weeds and deliver new knowledge on the biology and management of these emerging summer and winter weeds, with an overall aim of increasi
GRDC Research Updates 2017: Annual ryegrass viable seed reduced by desiccation and swathing of canola

16 February 2017

The viability of annual ryegrass seed can be reduced substantially by desiccation, pre-harvest spraying or swathing of canola depending on the product and timing.
East-west orientation for improved crop competition

4 June 2014

Every grain grower has seen how well weeds grow when they have a blocked seeding tube creating extra-wide row spacing.
Barley grass

3 February 2011

Barley grass is a common name for Hordeum glaucum and H. leporinum.
Research Updates 2017: Eleven years of narrow row spacing – higher yield and fewer weeds

16 February 2017

An 11 year study showed that narrow row spacing and harvest weed seed destruction (that is, residue burning each autumn) reduced annual ryegrass seed production.
Windrow burning - tips from the experts

27 March 2015

Doug Smith and his wife Kerry from Pingrup have been narrow windrow burning for weed seed control for over 10 years.
MyCrop how to video series

31 August 2016

This series of video tutorials has been produced to provide advice about the best ways to monitor and sample crops to diagnose and overcome constraints to crop production.