Livestock & animals

The Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development supply chain support, research and development and rigorous biosecurity systems underpin the economic success of Western Australia’s livestock industries. In 2011/12, the WA livestock industries contributed 26% of the state’s agriculture, fisheries and forestry production, worth approximately $2 billion at the farm gate.

WA is a world leader in live exports, super fine wool production and dryland sheep and grain systems. Both cattle and sheep systems are focused on export markets to Asia and the Middle East. WA also has innovative, world-class integrated dairy and pork industries meeting local and South East Asian demand for safe, fresh milk and pork. The WA poultry industry is growing strongly as a result of increasing domestic consumption.

Global demand for high-quality, safe animal protein and products produced according to high animal welfare standards will continue to rise in coming years. Increasingly DAFWA will partner with industry -- locally, nationally and internationally -- in transformational business projects to capitalise on this demand.

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Common plants in the Pilbara of Western Australia

2 October 2013

This information is a resource for pastoral lessees, station managers and others to help identify plants and assess pasture condition and trend in the Pilbara rangelands of Western Australia.
Common plants in the rangeland shrublands of Western Australia

2 October 2013

This information is a resource for pastoral lessees, station managers and others to help identify plants and assess pasture condition and trend in the shrublands of Western Australia.
Water quality for livestock

3 December 2014

Measure water quality and quantity to effectively plan and monitor water supplies for livestock.
Turpentine bush (Eremophila fraseri) in the Western Australian rangelands

27 September 2013

Turpentine bush (Eremophila fraseri) is one of many plant species found in the Western Australian rangelands.
Warty-leaf eremophila (Eremophila latrobei) in the Western Australian rangelands

27 September 2013

Warty-leaf eremophila (Eremophila latrobei) is one of many plant species found in the Western Australian rangelands.
Sandbank poverty bush (Eremophila margarethae) in the Western Australian rangelands

27 September 2013

Sandbank poverty bush (Eremophila margarethae) is one of many plant species found in the Western Australian rangelands.
Mulga bluebush (Maireana convexa) in the Western Australian rangelands

1 October 2013

Mulga bluebush (Maireana convexa) is one of many plant species found in the Western Australian rangelands.
Rangeland inventory and condition survey in part of the Broome Shire

15 October 2013

The rangelands in part of the Broome Shire in Western Australia were surveyed between 1989 and 1990.
Saltland pastures in Western Australia

29 November 2018

Saltland pastures are associations of salt- and waterlogging-tolerant plants that produce fodder for grazing animals from saline and waterlogged soils.
Monitoring rangeland condition in Western Australia

4 November 2013

There are many benefits from monitoring and assessing pastoral rangeland condition, and monitoring is done at several levels to meet the needs of rangeland managers, researchers and government admi