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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  • Cover of the 2022 WA Crop Sowing Guide with Rod and Andrew Messina of Mullewa in front of their seeding rig

    2022 Crop Sowing Guide for WA

    8 November 2021

    The crop sowing guide for Western Australia is a one stop shop for variety information on all the major crops grown in Western Australia.

  • 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.

  • Annual ryegrass

    Annual ryegrass

    6 October 2011

    Annual ryegrass (Lolium rigidum) is one of the most serious and costly weeds of annual winter cropping systems in southern Australia.

  • Bromus diandrus infestation in a mature crop

    Management of brome grass

    20 March 2014

    Brome grasses (Bromus spp.) are highly competitive weeds, most problematic in wheat crops.

  • Null

    Wheat disease ratings

    22 June 2014

    When selecting a wheat variety to implement in a farming system, it is important to be aware of the variety's disease package to plan management options. The disease resistance ratings for wheat va

  • Harvest

    Crop weeds: Hygiene - prevent weed seed introduction

    29 May 2012

    ‘Risk-aware’ growers can implement strategies to reduce and avoid unnecessary introduction and spread of weeds.

  • Photograph of field site used to measure plant available water capacity of a soil

    Plant available water and potential crop yield

    22 August 2016

    Plant available water (PAW) is a key determinant of potential yield in dryland agriculture.

  • Feathertop Rhodes grass in sorghum

    Weed Seed Wizard details

    15 August 2012

    The Weed Seed Wizard is a computer simulation tool that uses paddock management information to predict weed emergence and crop losses.

  • 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

  • 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.

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