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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  • Cavity spot lesions on carrot

    Cavity spot disease of carrots

    7 October 2013

    Cavity spot disease reduces the quality of carrots so that they become unacceptable for local and export markets. Information about this disease and its control are provided.

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    Minimising postharvest losses of carrots

    30 June 2014

    Carrots are susceptible to a number of postharvest diseases and disorders, many of which can be controlled by good management in the field and in storage.

  • Carrot crop, Myalup, Western Australia

    Host range of carrot cavity spot fungus

    11 October 2013

    Cavity spot disease of carrots in Australia is mainly caused by the soil-borne fungus Pythium sulcatum.

  • Carrots grown in nematode infected soil with (left) and without Telone treatment

    Chemical control of nematodes in carrots

    18 October 2013

    Telone® (1,3 dichloropropene) and Telone C35® (1,3 dichloropropene+chloropicrin) have been effective in controlling nematodes in field trials in Western Australia and should b

  • Leaf blight affected carrot crop

    Leaf blight of carrots

    10 October 2013

    Carrot leaf blight is a disease commonly found in carrot crops in Western Australia. It is usually caused by the fungus Alternaria dauci and occasionally by A. radicina.

  • Potato crop being watered by a centre pivot irrigation system.

    Pratylenchus penetrans: a horticulturally significant root lesion nematode

    22 September 2014

    Four species of root lesion nematodes are commonly found in Western Australia: Pratylenchus neglectus, P. quasitereoides, P. thornei and P. penetrans.

  • A number of carrots showing the symptoms of severe root damage caused by carrot virus Y

    Carrot virus Y

    5 May 2014

    Carrot virus Y has been found in carrot crops throughout Australia.

  • Carrots of the same age, healthy ones on the left and three damaged by root-knot nematodes on the right

    Root-knot nematodes in Western Australia

    15 May 2014

    Root-knot nematodes are plant-parasitic round worms with a broad host range which includes many important horticultural crops, pastures and some weed species.

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