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Project Aquarius (Csiro) : The Effects Of Bushfires On Honey Production : Submission And Comments To The Federal Council Of Australian Apiarists' Associations, R C. Burking, A. C. Kessell Jan 1983

Project Aquarius (Csiro) : The Effects Of Bushfires On Honey Production : Submission And Comments To The Federal Council Of Australian Apiarists' Associations, R C. Burking, A. C. Kessell

Apiculture research reports

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Farmers' Use Of Agricultural Information 1983, P W. Fry, K F. Goss Jan 1983

Farmers' Use Of Agricultural Information 1983, P W. Fry, K F. Goss

All other publications

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 …


Agricultural Water Quality Criteria : Irrigation Aspects., P R. George Jan 1983

Agricultural Water Quality Criteria : Irrigation Aspects., P R. George

Resource management technical reports

Water quality criteria for irrigation are imprecise. The final result of quality evaluation depends on plant, soil and climatic variables all of which can be inter-dependent. A range of management strategies of varying complexity are available to mitigate the effects of poor quality water. The heavy winter rainfall in the south-west of Western Australia affects the applicability of published salinity criteria most of which have been developed in arid and semi-arid environments with little effective rainfall.