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Row Spacing And Cereal Crop Yield, R N. Burch, M. W. Perry
Row Spacing And Cereal Crop Yield, R N. Burch, M. W. Perry
Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Western Australia, Series 4
Cereal growers in western Australia have, traditionally, burned cereal stubbles. Burning stubble residues reduces weed seed populations and fungal pathogens, but its main purpose has been to eliminate straw which might cause blockages od seeding machinery and por see-bed preparation in the time critical seeding operation.
In 982, the Department of Agriculture began a project to determine whether wider spaced rows also depressed cereal yields in Western Australia. This article summarises some of the important results from that work.
Agricultural Progress On The Ord, D A. Mcghie
Agricultural Progress On The Ord, D A. Mcghie
Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Western Australia, Series 4
This is the first of occasional articles describing the experimental and commercial activity on the Ord River Irrigation Area (ORIA) in Western Australia's Kimberley region.
Against a background of extensive recources of land and water, a sometimes cimatic advantage and a complementary disadvantage of a remote location, agriculture on the Ord has swung from various monocultures to a broadly based and diversified production. In 1986, the value of agricultural production on the Ord will approach values equivalent to those of the cotton era for the first time since the demise of that industry 12 years ago.