Livestock producers in the Great Southern and South West are reminded to act quickly to take part in a soil testing program to reduce nutrient loss off farm and optimise fertiliser use.
The use of sorghum and lupins as the base for nutritious infant formula is a business idea that scholarship recipient Carina Rudman will examine as part of this week’s Curtin Ignition Program.
The next Future Orchards® walks will cover chemical thinning and the latest on the apple and pear industry’s Productivity, Irrigation, Pests and Soils (PIPS) program.
In 2015 powdery mildew reached damaging levels in several regions. With the green bridge leading into the 2016 season, the disease could have significant impacts.
Almost 400 technical reports on land and water resources throughout the State are now available online thanks to work being completed by the Department of Agriculture and Food.
New wheat varieties that can be sown deep to chase sub-soil moisture in years when there is a dry start to the season are being pursued by a research collaboration across the nation.
Tech savy Western Australians are being encouraged to download the free MyPestGuide Reporter app to report pests, weeds and diseases to bolster community biosecurity surveillance during the Biosecu
Physiological leaf spotting occurs in many forms that may be easily mistaken for spotting symptoms caused by pathogens or herbicides. It is not thought to affect yield.
Crops should be monitored for leaf diseases in order to undertake appropriate control measures when first detected, and to alter management strategies in subsequent crops that will minimise the imp
Establishing yield loss in wheat cultivars with different levels of resistance in the presence of a range of infection levels of Fusarium pseudograminearum across different environments.
Determining the relative yield loss (tolerance) of commonly grown and newly released oat varieties to crown rot pathogens Fusarium pseudograminearum and F. culmorum.
