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An efficient and innovative plant tissue culture program that produces wheat and barley doubled haploid (DH) lines for Australian plant breeding companies and researchers at DPIRD and other Austral

Ovine brucellosis is a reproductive disease that can affect all breeds of sheep.

The WA Government is investing $15 million into an Agriculture Climate Resilience Fund to help WA farmers and industry to respond to the challenges of climate change.

The care and use of animals in Western Australia are subject to provisions of the Animal Welfare Act 2002 (the Act), which provides for the welfare, safety, and health of animals used for

The Carbon Farming and Land Restoration Program aims to realise agriculture's potential to sequester carbon, generate carbon credits and grow WA's carbon farming industry.

TuYV symptoms

Turnip yellows virus (TuYV; formerly beet western yellows virus) is transmitted by the green peach aphid (Myzus persicae) and can cause yiled and quality losses in canola.

The Third Review (the Review) of the National Gene Technology Scheme (Scheme), endorsed by all Australian governments on 11 October 2018, recommended “clarifying, and where necessary strengthening,

Growers will have an increased awareness of the impact of virus diseases, leading to an increased profitability through the adoption of virus resistant varieties and implementation of virus and ins

The StockedUp e-newsletter is a quarterly publication from the Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development, providing news related to WA’s sheep and cattle industries.

The Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development's Agribusiness, Food, Trade and Investment team offers a number of funding initiatives to support Western Australian agribusinesses.

The South West Land Division (SWLD) has an equal chance of receiving neutral to below median rainfall for April to June 2024, according to the current model rainfall outlook.

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Australian grain growers will be able to reduce the manageable impact of fungal disease using validated decisions support tools in managing the major diseases of cereal, oilseed and pulse crops.

The aim of this project is to help more growers with ameliorated soils in the medium and high rainfall zones adopt new farming systems techniques to maintain the benefits of soil amelioration, as w

Successful applicants for Round 5 of the WA Agrifood and Beverage Voucher Program were announced on 25 March, 2024. 

Growers and agronomists will have an improved understanding of pulse growth and development across a range of environments enabling the matching of pulse genotypes with soil and climate to maximise

Wheat and barley growers in the LRZ and MRZ of the Southern and Western Regions will be able to reduce the impact of Rhizoctonia on their crops through gaining new knowledge on the risk of the dise

Australian grain growers will be able to adopt and integrate the agronomic and systems innovation results from this project to manage enterprise mix and rotations, supporting increased whole farm p

Lupin breeders and researchers will have the genetic tools and knowledge to deliver lupin varieties with improved disease and yield stability. 

This project aims to establish gene silencing and DNA-free gene editing platforms for WA’s major grain crops, including wheat, barley and lupin.

Growers will be enabled and supported to implement specific integrated weed management strategies to reduce the economic impact of brome grass across the low rainfall zones of the Western and South

  

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