Regional and Seasonal content

Please note: This content may be out of date and is currently under review.

Agistment is an option for removing livestock from a property, for a number of reasons – after a fire, when paddock feed is inadequate, to spell pastures, or to finish livestock for sale on better

Lupinosis is a liver disease mainly caused by the consumption of lupin stalks colonised by the fungus Diaporthe toxica. It can be expressed as either a severe acute disease or as a chronic

Southern pastoralists have until the end of October to apply to be involved in a project to investigate and design long term solutions for on-station improvements to rangeland condition and livesto

Prima is the first cultivar of gland clover to be released in Australia.

Biserrula is a persistent pasture legumes for Mediterranean farming systems. Biserrula has hard seed, a deep root system and a high level of grazing tolerance.

French serradella is an annual pasture legume with three cultivars suited to Mediterranean climatic zones of Australia. Cadiz and Eliza are soft seeded while Margurita and Erica are hard seeded.

Bartolo is the first cultivar of bladder clover (Trifolium spumosum) commercially available to world agriculture.

Cadiz, Eliza, Margurita and Erica have different characteristics allowing them to be used in different agricultural systems.

Local government authorities can prescribe problematic plant species as 'pest plants' under the Biosecurity and Agriculture Management Act 2007 (BAM Act).

Flystrike is a significant health and welfare risk to Australian sheep and costs $280 million annually.

The Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development produced this report card to provide a regional overview of the status and trend of the natural resource base of the pastoral rangeland

A commitment to provide employment and training opportunities for the people of Roebourne and the wider community has resulted in Yurra winning the Economic Development category of the 2021 Western

Salinity risk mapping provides managers with information to assess tree planting proposals for carbon sequestration.

Large areas of cropping land in Western Australia have soil with multiple constraints to crop yield.

Armyworm cause most damage in cereal crops close to harvest
Diamondback moth update
Lucerne seed web moth
Keep monitoring for native budworm
Stripe rust in wheat

Sustainability, resilience and the future of the Western Australia’s horticulture sector will be the focus of the State’s premier industry conference to be held in Perth early next month.

A list containing links to descriptions and chemical controls for declared plants and a calendar of operation for declared and other trouble plants.

Control methods for apple of Sodom (Solanum linnaeanum) a declared pest in Western Australia.

This is the preliminary assessment from 2010 of hydraulic properties and yield of the palaeochannel aquifer and permeability in the northern area of the proposed Weaber Plain development where the

A large amount of carbon is stored in soils – mostly as soil organic matter – and there is interest in sequestering more atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) in soil organic carbon (SOC) to

  

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