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Identifying Soil Constraints That Limit Wheat Yield In The South-West Of Western Australia, Dennis Van Gool
Identifying Soil Constraints That Limit Wheat Yield In The South-West Of Western Australia, Dennis Van Gool
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Wheat is grown on about 18 million hectares in the South-West Agricultural Region of Western Australia from north and east of Geraldton to Esperance in the south-east. Yields are frequently constrained by a range of soil factors.
This report uses existing conventional soil-landscape mapping to analyse the effects of 17 known soil constraints that limit crop production and roughly prioritises the areas where they occur.
Traditional land capability maps are prepared using a most-limiting factor approach, which assumes that ameliorating the most limiting constraint will result in a yield increase until the next most-limiting constraint is reached. Where there are …