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Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Western Australia, Series 4

1972

Western Australia

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Dust Storms Cause Yield Losses, Department Of Agriculture, Western Australia, C. H. Trotman Jan 1972

Dust Storms Cause Yield Losses, Department Of Agriculture, Western Australia, C. H. Trotman

Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Western Australia, Series 4

Farmers and research workers are well aware that heavy grazing during summer loosens and exposes soil to the action of strong winds and summer thunder storms. They also realise that dust storms mean soil loss from paddocks, but until now there has been little idea of the effect of these storms on crop yields in subsequent seasons.