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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  • Reduced emergence and smaller plants that die earlier near saline areas

    Diagnosing salinity in narrow-leafed lupins

    19 January 2015

    Salinity affects plant growth by reducing the root's ability to extract water from the soil. Salinity damage varies from season to season due to variations in the soil salt concentration.

  • Older leaf death with small dark spots, particularly at leaf tip and margins

    Diagnosing boron toxicity in barley

    20 January 2014

    Boron toxicity is usually an inherent feature of a soil and is a particular problem when high boron levels occur in the subsoil.

  • Bent taproot unable to penetrate ironstone subsoil

    Diagnosing hostile subsoil in narrow-leafed lupins

    19 January 2015

    Narrow-leafed lupins have sparse, deep root systems that are not suited to fine textured or shallow soils.

  • Sorghum near Esperance as a summer crop

    Summer crops to reduce waterlogging

    2 February 2011

    Summer crops can be grown for various reasons including replacing a ‘missed’ cereal crop, control herbicide resistant weeds, filling a summer feed gap for livestock or for watertable control.

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