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Full-Text Articles in Agriculture
Report Card On Sustainable Natural Resource Use In Agriculture, Robert Summers, David Weaver
Report Card On Sustainable Natural Resource Use In Agriculture, Robert Summers, David Weaver
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Condition and trend Nutrients, such as phosphorus (P), are essential for profitable agriculture in the south-west of WA; however, excess P – more than is required for optimal production – is stored in many agricultural soils. On average, pasture soils and arable soils contain 1.3 times and 1.6 times respectively, as much P as is required for optimal production. Production in P-enriched soils is more likely to be constrained by soil acidity (50–60% of pasture and arable soils), potassium (K) (50% of pasture soils and less than 10% of arable soils), and sulphur (S) (30% of pasture soils). Management implications …
Final Evaluation Of The North East Agricultural Region (Near) Strategy, Andrew Blake, Don Burnside, Vicki Williams
Final Evaluation Of The North East Agricultural Region (Near) Strategy, Andrew Blake, Don Burnside, Vicki Williams
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Deep Drainage Is It For Me? Workshop Manual For Participants, Richard Odonnell
Deep Drainage Is It For Me? Workshop Manual For Participants, Richard Odonnell
Agriculture reports
A Million Hectares for the Future. This workshop forms part of a series of workshops dealing with dryland salinity and options to manage it. All of the workshops have the common theme of identifying the risk at the catchment and farm level, assessing the potential consequences if the risk is not managed and determining the course of action to be taken. You will be able to determine the course of action based on your specific circumstances and goals. There is no one recipe that is suited to all situations.
Glossary Of Terms For Use With The 'A Million Hectares For The Future' Salinity Management Workshops, Rebecca Heath, Paul Raper
Glossary Of Terms For Use With The 'A Million Hectares For The Future' Salinity Management Workshops, Rebecca Heath, Paul Raper
Agriculture reports
This Glossary has been developed as part of the GRDC/NDSP-funded, 'A Million Hectares for the Future' project with support and input from key personnel from the Department of Agriculture, Western Australia.
Step Workshops - Guide For Facilitators, Department Of Agriculture And Food, Western Australia
Step Workshops - Guide For Facilitators, Department Of Agriculture And Food, Western Australia
Agriculture reports
The STEP workshops can be run as independent modules or as part of the ?A Million Hectares for the Future? workshop series of which the overarching learning outcome is: Participants will be able to identify and make informed decisions to profitably manage salinity on their farms. Outlines the preferred pathway for the modules in the Million Hectares for the Future series.
Pasture Condition Guides For The Pilbara, A L. Payne, A A. Mitchell
Pasture Condition Guides For The Pilbara, A L. Payne, A A. Mitchell
Agriculture reports
These pasture condition guides are relevant to about 192 000 square kilometres of the Pilbara region of Western Australia. The rangeland of the Pilbara can be separated into 12 very broad pasture types. The ‘pasture type’ is not strictly a botanical classification because, in determining such a class of pastoral lands, the perennial plant species that contribute to stock production have an over-riding importance. Even so, each pasture type represents a broad group of similar vegetation associations or ‘site types’ which will have similar management requirements for pastoralism. The aim of this publication is to provide pastoralists with descriptions and …
Asian Wheat Market And Food Experience For Growers : A Final Report For The Grains Research And Development Corporation Project Daw637, Ben Curtis
Research Reports
This project was designed to set up a course which would allow Australian wheat growers and their partners to get closer to the markets that buy their wheat in order to learn more about some of the quality issues that affect the end products. This form of education should assist the wheat industry to move with these changing markets to lean more about them and build some supply chain linkages. This will also help improve grower responsiveness to changing market needs and increase the production of quality wheat.
Progress Rural Western Australia Conference : A Conference Focusing On How To Bring Out The Best In Your Community, 13 And 14 August 1999, New Norcia, Western Australia : Conference Proceedings, Progress Rural Western Australia
Progress Rural Western Australia Conference : A Conference Focusing On How To Bring Out The Best In Your Community, 13 And 14 August 1999, New Norcia, Western Australia : Conference Proceedings, Progress Rural Western Australia
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The Objective
The 1999 Progress Rural WA Conference aims to build on the skills and exposure that many delegates have already had to inspiring and innovative practice from across the globe and the excellent practice currently being implemented by rural West Australians.
Our keynote speakers have been selected on their ability to paint the big picture - we want to heighten the excitement, push people beyond their comfort zones and stretch peoples thinking.
From project workshops and feedback across the state, we hear a number of common issues. The workshop themes have been developed to provide an action learning experience …
Rural Industry Scholarship In Agriculture : Final Report Of The Grains Research & Development Corporation For The Grain Research Committee Of Wa, John Allan
Research Reports
In 1986 the Western Australian Government established an undergraduate scholarship in agricultural science. The scholarship was introduced to attract high calibre students into agricultural science as an alternative to highly rewarded professions such as medicine, law and commerce. The State Wheat Industry Research Committee and Barley Industry Research Committee subsequently provided funding to support the scholarship. In 1992 the Grains Research and Development Corporation agreed to ongoing funding on behalf of the Grains Industry.
Understanding Fertilisers - Course Notes, Margaret Graham, John Burt, Neil Lantzke
Understanding Fertilisers - Course Notes, Margaret Graham, John Burt, Neil Lantzke
Horticulture research reports
The aim of the course is to provide you with more detailed information that will allow you to refine and improve your fertiliser program. Applying the correct amount of nutrient increases yield and quality. Over-fertilising is a waste of money and may lead to pollution of groundwater.
Farmer Groups - A Fad Or The Future, Department Of Agriculture And Food, Western Australia
Farmer Groups - A Fad Or The Future, Department Of Agriculture And Food, Western Australia
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The question I have asked is 'Are farmer groups a fad or the future?' I believe there is no question about it. Farmer groups ARE an important part of future agricultural extension. With shrinking government resources devoted to extension, a farmer group approach has many advantages. These advantages have been shown in Western Australia with landcare catchment groups and lice cell groups and these have been recognised by both extension workers and farmers. What makes these groups different to groups of the past? Farmer groups have come and gone in an almost cyclical fashion. An exception is the Kondinin Group, …
An Investigation Into The Government Extension Services Operating In South Australia, Victoria, Queensland, North And South Island, New Zealand : June 1 To July 7, 1991, Philip Hawker
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Brian Carlin Memorial Award Study Tour Report
Farming Systems Consultancy Australian Co-Operation With The National Agricultural Research Project Thailand, D A. Morrison
Farming Systems Consultancy Australian Co-Operation With The National Agricultural Research Project Thailand, D A. Morrison
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The purpose of this consultancy is to strengthen farming systems research methodology in the Thai Department of Agriculture (DOA) and in particular, the Department's Farming Systems Research Institute (FSRI). It follows from:
(i) the consultancy of Martin (1984) who found that DOA staff were having difficulty working out how to analyse farming systems; and
(ii) the three month stay in Australia of Pairat Duangpiboon to introduce him to the modelling techniques used in the Western Australian Department of Agriculture to analyse farming systems.
A Guide To The Identification And Control Of Insect Pests In Ord Peanuts, S.E. Learmonth
A Guide To The Identification And Control Of Insect Pests In Ord Peanuts, S.E. Learmonth
Biosecurity research reports
Since peanuts were first grown commercially on the Ord Cockatoo sands in 1979/80, insects have generally been of minor concern but changes in the importance of some insects have occurred to the point where insecticides are required. Therefore, it is important that growers be able to recognize insects in their crops. Such is the objective of this guide which also includes some general information on the biology, feeding habits, methods of detection, and control of the more common insects.
Farmers' Use Of Agricultural Information 1983, P W. Fry, K F. Goss
Farmers' Use Of Agricultural Information 1983, P W. Fry, K F. Goss
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The Western Australian Department of Agriculture produces information for farmers which is disseminated through various mass media, The Australian Broadcasting Commission and commercial media outlets provide further agricultural information, In 1983 a telephone survey of cereal-sheep farmers was undertaken to determine what information sources were used by farmers, and how farmers used that information.
A number of information processing factors were taken from communication research literature, These were accessibility and availability; surveillance and exposure; selection; storage and retrieval. From within this theoretical framework, information sources such as farming magazines, radio and television programmes were examined.
Special attention was given to …
Report On Overseas Study Tour June/July 1970, S T. Smith
Report On Overseas Study Tour June/July 1970, S T. Smith
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The above tour was organized by the Department of Primary Industry from monies allocated from CESG funds. The objects of study were stated as including basic extension philosophy and objectives, organizational aspects, roles of Universities and colleges in extension training and extension research, staff recruitment and development and roles of staff trained at different levels, research extension liaison, far management extension and extension methods, programme development and evaluation. The group included a representative from each State and from the Commonwealth Department of Primary Industry.
Structure Of Extension Services Wa, Extension Conference 1962., J P. Eckersley
Structure Of Extension Services Wa, Extension Conference 1962., J P. Eckersley
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Prepared for the Australian Agricultural Extension Conference, Hawkesbury, N.S.W.
Agricultural Extension In New Zealand, F L. Shier
Agricultural Extension In New Zealand, F L. Shier
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"This report is the outcome of a tour of New Zealand during November and December, 1953 made possible through the recommendation of the Western Australian Director of Agriculture (Mr G.K. Baron Hay) and financed under the Commonwealth Extension Services Grant".