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Flower : Predicting Flowering Times Of Cereal Crops, G A B Elliott, Stephen Loss
Flower : Predicting Flowering Times Of Cereal Crops, G A B Elliott, Stephen Loss
Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Western Australia, Series 4
FLOWER is a computer program which predicts the flowering date of a given wheat or barley variety at a specified location and sowing date. Department of Agriculture agronomists, breeders and advisers are using the program to provide useful information on how the development of cereals responds to different environments across Western Australia's cereal growing areas.
Decide : How Much Superphosphate, G A. Robertson, J. W. Bowden, N. J. Halse
Decide : How Much Superphosphate, G A. Robertson, J. W. Bowden, N. J. Halse
Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Western Australia, Series 4
* A 400 per cent increase in ihe price of superphosphate has reduced the economic optimum rates of super for crops and pastures in 1975.
* Many factors, both biological and economic, must be taken into account in determining the rate of superphosphate to apply.
• DECIDE, a model developed by CSIRO and the Department of Agriculture, provides a formal system in which all these factors can be considered.
• DECIDE is based on the results of all research on superphosphate carried out in Western Australia. However, each farmer's own knowledge of his farm, the soils, crops and animals is …