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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  • A pile of albus lupin seed. Flat and squarish in shape, a pale cream colour.

    Amira: an anthracnose resistant albus lupin for Western Australia

    5 December 2013

    Amira is a relatively early flowering variety that produces high yields in similar areas to where Kiev Mutant was popular before the outbreak of anthracnose.

  • Spring growth of an oat crop in York 2013

    Oats: seeding and establishment

    28 November 2013

    Cultural practices from paddock preparation to seeding rate and sowing date help promote plant establishment and survival.

  • CropCheck

    4 February 2014

    Monitoring your crop allows timely intervention to manage constraints, assess crop growth, target maximum crop yield and optimise grain quality and profitability.

  • two headers harvesting side by side

    Machinery purchasing decision support for broadacre growers

    2 April 2015

    The following information is a summary of the presentation 'Farm machinery – understanding the true cost and getting the best value out of machinery' delivered by department economists at the 2015

  • Western Australian oat industry

    1 November 2013

    The oat industry delivers nearly $200 million to the state economy each year through oats for human consumption and feed.

  • image of wheat seedlings

    How many wheat plants do you need?

    24 May 2016

    Do you know if your wheat seeding rate this year was correct? If you don't know, would you like to find out?

  • Barley production - harvest and grain quality

    5 December 2013

    Maintaining the quality of grain that has been grown is all about the correct and timely harvesting of the grain and its management and storage once removed from the paddock.

  • Options to consider at harvest

    6 February 2012

    New grain harvesters can cost in excess of $500 000; so the costs of ownership are substantial. Should a farmer always own their harvesting gear? What are the alternatives?

  • Green pods on PBA Jurien with crop in the background

    PBA Jurien

    20 August 2015

    PBA Jurien is a high yielding Australian sweet lupin variety suitable for all lupin growing areas of Australia and it provides a significant yield improvement over current varieties in most of thes

  • Photograph of an albus lupin crop at maturity.Plants are dry and brown in colour. Individual plants with large pods can be seen in the foreground. Trees are seen in the background growing at the edge of the paddock.

    Growing Andromeda – an albus lupin variety with improved tolerance to anthracnose

    13 December 2012

    Albus lupin (Lupinus albus) has been grown commercially in WA since about 1982, when the variety Kiev Mutant was released.

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