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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Articles

  • Root lesion and burrowing nematodes: diagnosis and management

    10 December 2013

    Nematodes can feed on root tissues of a wide range of plant species and lead to root damage which can result in significant crop yield loss.

  • Crown rot in wheat showing white heads

    Yield loss response curve trial for crown rot 2016 trial report

    29 August 2016

    Establishing yield loss in wheat cultivars with different levels of resistance in the presence of a range of infection levels of Fusarium pseudograminearum across different environments.

  • Yellow-orange pustules are arranged in stripes along the leaf veins.

    Diagnosing stripe rust of wheat

    4 December 2013

    Stripe rust is a fungal foliar disease specific to wheat that can cause up to 60% yield loss and reduce grain quality, particularly when susceptible varieties are infected early.

     

  • Small, circular to oval pustules with orange to light brown dusty spores on upper surface of leaves.

    Diagnosing leaf rust of wheat

    4 December 2013

    Leaf rust (Puccinia triticina) is a fungal leaf disease specific to wheat that can pose a significant threat to the yield and quality of Western Australian wheat crops in some seasons, cau

  • In severe cases whole plants develop white heads after flowering.

    Diagnosing crown rot of cereals

    4 December 2013

    A fungal disease most common in continuous cereal crops, which affects roots and lower stems and is usually not detected until after heading.

  • Plants infected as seedlings are spindly with multiple tillers

    Diagnosing wheat streak mosaic virus

    4 December 2013

    Wheat streak mosaic virus (WSMV) is a seed and mite-borne virus that infects cereals (including wheat and barley) and grasses.

  • Roots of affected plants are blackened and brittle and break easily, and are black to the core not just on outer surface.

    Diagnosing take-all in cereals

    4 December 2013

    A fungal root disease that can cause severe yield losses of wheat and barley especially in medium- to high-rainfall areas.

     

  • Pustules become black in colour towards the end of the season.

    Diagnosing stem rust of wheat

    4 December 2013

    Stem rust is a fungal foliar disease of wheat that can cause up to 90% yield loss and also reduces grain quality in susceptible varieties.

  • Blackening of sub-crown internode in extreme cases

    Diagnosing common root rot of cereals

    4 December 2013

    A fungal root disease that is not common in Western Australia (WA) but can build up to damaging levels in continuous wheat crops.

  • Roots stunted, short and stubby with few laterals.

    Diagnosing pythium root rot in cereals

    4 December 2013

    A widespread fungal root disease that attacks seedlings but which rarely causes large yield losses.

     

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