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.

See Also

Previous Pause Next

Articles

  • NULL

    Carbon farming management options

    13 November 2013

    The aim of carbon farming is to sequester more carbon and reduce greenhouse gas emissions, as part of Australia's response to climate change.

  • DPIRD regional agronomist standing in tall canola crop

    Regional research agronomy project

    31 May 2016

    'Regional Research Agronomy' is the abbreviated working title for the 'Building crop protection and crop production agronomy research and development capacity in regional Western Australia' project

  • A wheat crop on a gently sloping hill showing a clear demarcation of an area showing frost damage with retarded growing compared to a well performing area.

    Managing frost risk

    14 December 2010

    Frost occurs on clear nights in early spring when the air temperature drops to 2°C or less.

  • Dr Ben Biddulph at the frost research trial taking observations with crop monitoring equipment

    Fighting frost damage in cereals

    12 February 2013

    The department is a key partner in the Grains Research and Development Corporations' (GRDC) National Frost Initiative (NFI) which aims to provide the Australian grains industry with targeted resear

  • Bluegreen aphid on yellow flowering bud of lupin

    Identification of aphids in lupin crops

    13 December 2012

    Aphids reduce yields by direct feeding damage which causes flower and pod abortion and occassionally plant death in lupins.

  • One-off soil inversion using a mouldboard plough

    Soil inversion to ameliorate soil water repellence

    19 December 2010

    One-off soil inversion results in the complete burial of the water repellent topsoil in a layer typically at a depth of 15–35cm, and brings to the surface a layer of wettable subsoil.

  • Carry graders excavating a pit for clay spreading

    Claying to ameliorate soil water repellence

    25 January 2011

    Claying involves adding and incorporating clay-rich subsoil into water repellent topsoil to overcome the repellence.

  • Frost ID Guide front cover with frozen wheat spikes at booting and flowering barley and oats

    DPIRD Frost identification guide for cereals

    19 July 2018

    A new guide has been published to assist cereal growers to identify frost damage and consider crop management decisions.

  • Photograph of an automated gas chamber in open position measuring GHG emissions from crops (canola)

    Carbon farming and Western Australian agriculture

    10 December 2013

    Carbon farming is the agricultural practices or land use to increase carbon stored in the soil and vegetation (sequestration) and to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from livestock, soil or vegetati

  • trial site image

    Primary Industries Development 2020 Research Trials Map

    22 January 2018

    In 2020 the Department is conducting over 300 Grains Research trials across the state from Kununurra in the north to Esperance in the south.

Pages

Filter by search

Filter by topic