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Results of Department of Agriculture and Food water investigations of the La Grange area were recently shared with key stakeholders at a two-day workshop.

Research to minimise the impact of bush flies will enter its final stages this winter with the relocation of a species of dung beetle to the Mid-West.

The funding arrangements to help grain and livestock producers address priority pest and disease threats throughout the 2014/15 financial year and will remain the same as previous years.

The Grains, Seeds and Hay Industry Funding Scheme Management Committee has recommended that the current contribution rates continue in 2014/15 to fund programs to control skeleton weed and eradicat

Symptoms of zinc, copper, manganese and magnesium deficiency are often seen in apple and pear trees in Western Australian orchards.

Emerging leaves are distorted and discoloured; leaf blades become cupped and crinkly

Glyphosate is a systemic knockdown herbicide that is used extensively for brown fallow, summer weed or pre-seeding weed control, or selective weed control in glyphosate resistant crops.

Scattered germination due to insufficient soil moisture

Early drought may affect germination and early growth. Water stressed seedlings are more severely affected by other constraints and may have induced nutrient deficiencies.

Leading horticulture and medical researchers have teamed up to explore how ‘an apple a day keeps the doctor away’ and ways to breed new, healthier apples in Western Australia.

Wheel cactus has been discovered in the Shires of Dowerin, Goomalling and Kellerberrin and the town of Hines Hill thanks to reports by locals to the department.

Flattened strap-like flowering stem

Fasciation is a relatively rare condition of abnormal growth in the growing point that has no economic significance in canola.

Uniformly affected plants with pale leaf blotches

Group F herbicides are registered for selective control of wild radish, wild mustard and wild turnip in cereals, legume crops and legume pastures. Canola is less affected than brassica weeds

Work to close the 170km Yilgarn gap has begun, marking a significant milestone in upgrading the State’s historic barrier fence.

Backyard citrus growers are asked to look out for any unusual lumps and bumps on their citrus trees after a small outbreak of citrus gall wasp was detected in a suburb north east of Perth.

Countries from around the world are scrutinising the successful Lifetimewool initiative, after it was profiled at the recent World Merino Conference in South Africa.

Western Australia’s newest oat variety, Williams, has been approved for milling quality for human consumption – adding a further $5-30 premium per tonne for growers compared with feed oats.

There could finally be a fungicide option to reduce the impact of the widespread cereal disease rhizoctonia bare-patch, which costs the grains Western Australian industry $27 million each year.

Western Australia has shipped a large quantity of sterile Mediterranean fruit flies (Medfly) to South Australia to help deal with a recent outbreak of fruit fly.

Field peas could emerge as a more attractive option for grain growers wanting to target Root Lesion Nematode (RLN) in 2014, following a definitive break to the season.

them to maximise their crop potential.

Saturday
28th
Jun 2014
15 May 2014

Free community workshop on feral pig management with presentations and demonstrations by the Department of Agriculture and Food, Western Australia, Murdoch University and the Lake Muir-Denbarker...

  

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