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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  • Wrinkled leaves and characteristic ringspots

    Diagnosing cauliflower mosaic virus in canola

    19 May 2014

    An aphid borne viral disease in canola that has the potential to cause significant yield loss with early infection, but rarely occurs in WA.

  • Group I herbicide damage can also cause root nodules

    Diagnosing clubroot in canola

    8 May 2014

    Clubroot is caused by a soil-borne fungus that only affects plants in the Cruciferae family including canola,mustard, wild radish, wild mustard, wild turnip and vegetable brassicas.

  • Rhizoctonia affected seedlings develop red-brown hypocotyl lesions as shown by the middle seedling

    Diagnosing damping off in canola

    8 May 2014

    Damping-off is seedling root and hypocotyl (seedling stem) disease that can be caused by a complex of Rhizoctonia, Fusarium and Pythium fungi.

  • Yellow areas on upper leaf surface

    Diagnosing downy mildew in canola

    8 May 2014

    A fungal disease infecting foliage of canola, it mainly affects seedlings and is rarely found beyond the rosette stage.

  • Three-horned bedstraw in flower

    Three-horned bedstraw eradication program 2013/14

    21 November 2014

    This report outlines the work undertaken by the Grains, Seeds and Hay Industry Funding Scheme for bedstraw eradication during the 2013/14 financial year.

  • Leaf necrosis moves from leaf edges to veins

    Diagnosing group C herbicide damage in canola

    7 May 2014

    A range of group C herbicides are registered for use in triazine tolerant (TT) varieties, but other varieties are susceptible to both pre and post emergent applications.

     

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

    Diagnosing glyphosate damage in canola

    7 May 2014

    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.

  • Uniformly affected plants with pale leaf blotches

    Diagnosing group F herbicide damage in canola

    7 May 2014

    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

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