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Visions For Agriculture, Department Of Agriculture, Western Australia
Visions For Agriculture, Department Of Agriculture, Western Australia
Agriculture reports
This workshop grew out of a conversation between Maurice Barnes, a Trayning farmer and member of the Research Advisory Committee of the Dryland Research Institute, and Steve Porritt, the officer in charge of the Dryland Research Institute at Merredin. Maurice was interested in the idea of posing the question 'What would agriculture be like if we had known as much about this landscape in 1829 as we know now?', to a group of farmers and others interested in the central wheatbelt and its future. Maurice saw this question as a first step toward achieving some shared vision for the future …
Preservation Of Wooden Hive Equipment, Lee Allan
Preservation Of Wooden Hive Equipment, Lee Allan
Agriculture reports
The booklet is a compilation of jounral articles by Department of Agriculture staff. Bee keeping and wood preservation in Australia, P.J. Robinson and J.R.J. French(The Australian Bee Journal, January 1986, pp 11-14) Wood preservation in Victoria commercial apiaries, P.J. Robinson and J.R.J. French(The Australian Bee Journal, January 1986, pp 8-10) Preservation of hive equipment, T.F. Weatherhead (The Australasian Bee Journal,May 1987, pp 12-17) Preservation of beehive components, T.F. Weatherhead (The Australasian Beekeeper,September 1984, pp 52-53) Choosing paint for beehive timbers, M.J. Kennedy (The Australasian Bee keeper,September 1984, pp 52-53) Protocol for wax dipping bee equipment, G.L. Griffiths (Division of Animal …
'Living Soil' Seminar, Department Of Agriculture, Western Australia
'Living Soil' Seminar, Department Of Agriculture, Western Australia
Agriculture reports
Provides an opportunity for farmers and those involved in the agricultural service industry, to focus on what happens in the soil. Seminar reflects the interest detected amongst farmers in knowing more about the things that influence plant growth and a genuine concern about the environment.
Navail Spreadsheet, S J. Burgess
Navail Spreadsheet, S J. Burgess
Agriculture reports
A computer program called NPDECIDE has been developed by the Western Australian Department of Agriculture to assist with decisions relating to the use of phosphorus fertiliser on cereal crops. NPDECIDE functions by estimating the response of the crop to combinations of nitrogen and phosphorus fertilisers, and by indicating the likely profit from the use of these materials. In order to carry out this task, NPDECIDE must be able to calculate the availability to the growing plants of nitrogen from the fertilisers and from organic material in the soil.