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The Making Of A New Pasture Variety, Department Of Agriculture, Western Australia
The Making Of A New Pasture Variety, Department Of Agriculture, Western Australia
Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Western Australia, Series 4
FARMERS who attend field days at Department of Agriculture research stations are reasonably familiar with the procedure for producing a new cereal variety. It involves a painstaking and tedious process of crossing, followed by many years of segregation, selection and testing for yield, disease resistance, and other characters.
Although there are many pitfalls, the procedure for the creation of a new cereal variety is at least fairly well systematised.
Until recently the making of a new pasture variety was far from a systematic undertaking.
Establishing Pastures Under Wheat Crops, M L. Poole, J. W. Gartrell, D. A. N. Nicholas
Establishing Pastures Under Wheat Crops, M L. Poole, J. W. Gartrell, D. A. N. Nicholas
Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Western Australia, Series 4
RECENT surveys indicate that in the medium and high rainfall cereal and sheep areas as much as half the new pasture sown is sown with a crop.
In the drier wheatbelt areas the figure is 20 to 30 per cent.