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Early Sowing Of Ceral Crops In Low Rainfall Areas, R J. Delane, John Hamblin
Early Sowing Of Ceral Crops In Low Rainfall Areas, R J. Delane, John Hamblin
Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Western Australia, Series 4
One of the objectives of the Department of Agriculture's crop research in the low rainfall, northern wheatbelt is to develop crop varieties and management practices that will make best use of stored water on both sandplain and fine textured soils. Sowing a crop early will improve its water use efficiency and yiel in low rainfall areas.
Trees In The Peel-Harvey Catchment, C S. Peek, Richard Silberstein
Trees In The Peel-Harvey Catchment, C S. Peek, Richard Silberstein
Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Western Australia, Series 4
The peel-Harvey catchment has been the focus for an intensive research and extension programme to reduce phosphorous run-off flowing into the Peel Inlet and Harvey Estuary, while maintaining agricultural productivity.
One of the proposed management strategies is to plant large areas of trees on the catchment's leaching sands. Farmers would be encouraged to take this option if growing trees was at least equal, in financial return, to the present agricultural land uses.
Preliminary data indicate that growing Eucalyptus globulas (Tasmanian bluegum) for woodchipping may be at least as profitable as agriculture. Tree plantations also have the added potential to reduce …