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.

Articles

Rouse subterranean clover

16 August 2016

Rouse is a mid to late flowering variety of the waterlogging-tolerant “white-seeded” yanninicum subspecies of sub clover.
Yanco subterranean clover

17 August 2016

Yanco is a midseason flowering variety of the waterlogging-tolerant “white-seeded” yanninicum subspecies of sub clover.
New subterranean clover varieties

14 August 2016

Six new subterranean clover varieties have been developed from a national five-year joint venture between the Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development (DPIRD) and pasture seed comp
Rosabrook subterranean clover

31 August 2016

Rosabrook is a late flowering, disease resistant subterranean clover with increased resistance to redlegged earth mites (RLEM) and high early season biomass production.
Narrikup subterranean clover

31 August 2016

Narrikup is a very vigorous midseason flowering variety of the “black-seeded” subterraneum subspecies of sub clover.
Forbes subterranean clover

17 August 2016

Forbes has been developed for use in cropping rotations in areas with 350-525 mm annual average rainfall.
Tammin subterranean clover

16 August 2016

Tammin is a more persistent early flowering variety for cropping rotations in low-medium rainfall (300-450 mm annual average rainfall) areas with the novel traits of seedling resistance to redlegge
Sub-tropical grass establishment

23 July 2014

The establishment of sub-tropical grasses has improved dramatically in the past few years.
Signal grass

24 July 2014

Signal grass is a warm season (C4) sub-tropical grass but it is not recommended for sowing either alone or as a component of species mixtures in Western Australia due to a high risk of causing seco
Identifying sub-tropical grass seedlings

30 July 2014

There is considerable interest in growing sub-tropical perennial grasses especially on the south coast and in the northern agricultural region.