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Tough Times Call For A Review Of Farm Business Performance, Martin Van Bueren, John Young

Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Western Australia, Series 4

Most Australian farm businesses specialising in wool production are operating at a loss at current wool prices. After both short term operating and long term costs of capital depreciation are accounted for, only a small number of wool growers are able to make a profit with the wool market indicator below 500c/kg.

Poor prices have stimulated wool growers to review their operations and look to ways of improving cash flow in the short term, such as diversifying into cropping. The downturn should also prompt growers to address the longer term trends of declining terms of trade and historically poor productivity …

Holding Our Edge In Noodle Wheat, Graham Crosbie

Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Western Australia, Series 4

For many years, the Japanese milling and noodle industries have regarded Australian Standard White (ASW) wheat from Western Australia as the best in the world for the manufacture of white, salted Japanese noodles known as 'udon' (pronounced oo-don).

Recently, the Australian Wheat Board has also developed a significant market for this wheat type in South Korea, where it has been readily accepted for the production of Korean dried noodles.

The Wheat Board has estimated the total market demand from Japan and South Korea for this type of wheat to be 1.0-1.2 million tonnes, equivalent to about 20-25 per cent of …

Lupin Logic Number 41

Lupin Logic

Content:

Kiev lupins for export

Lupin variety recommendations for 1994

Stubble grazing

Storage of lupin information

Resistance to testing?

Christmas message

193/94 Estimateed lupin equities

Miscellaneous Publication 42/93 - Development And Dissemination Of Design Methods For Rangeland Paddocks Which Maximise Animal Production And Minimise Land Degradation, Shane Cridland, Mark Stafford Smith

Animal production and livestock published reports

Surveys of rangeland resources in Western Australia to date have shown that 23% of the area surveyed is in poor range condition. Poor condition is characterised by the loss of perennial vegetation allowing wind and water erosion. Approximately another 37% is in only fair range condition (Curry and Hacker 1990).

The loss of range condition is partly due to uneven use of paddocks by sheep and cattle. The areas close to water and the preferred pasture types are often over-utilised, while areas well away from water and less preferred pasture types are under-utilised. The result is that rangeland in good, …

Lupin Logic Number 40

Lupin Logic

Contents

Albus lupin warning

Market outlook

Seed quality testing

Binder and index

Furrow seeding

Bulletin 4267 - Growing Macadamia Nuts, John Dick, Alec Mccarthy

Bulletins 4000 -

The macadamia (Macadamia integrifolia and M. tetraphylla) are native Australian trees that have been developed as a commercial food crop.

About two million macadamia trees are planted in Australia over 6000 hectares. These produce about 12,000 tonnes of nuts. New South Wales and Queensland account for 90 per cent of the trees.

Unfortunately, Western Australian conditions are different again to the eastern States. Therefore, local trials will be required before varieties particularly suited to this State's conditions can be developed.

Lupin Logic Number 39

Lupin Logic

Contents

Lunar landscape

- Rhizoctonia patch

- Eradu patch

- Action required

Back saving bin

Row orientation

Manganese spraying

Reminders

Correction

1992/93 Pool payments

Lupin Logic Number 38

Lupin Logic

Contents

Attitudes to dry seeding lupins

Communication corrections

Liming and lupins

- Editors note

CMV testing 1993/94

- Changes for 1993

Reminders

1992/93 Pool payments

Lupin Logic Number 37

Lupin Logic

Contents

Lupin yields

Western flower thrips

Stubble handling

Broome seed banks

Reminders

Communication channels

Lupin Logic Number 36

Lupin Logic

Contents

Paddock walk?

Virus resitant lupins

Fest lupins

Beethoven not good enough!

Lupin receivals

Kiev post plant weed control

Mailing list

Lupin Logic Number 35

Lupin Logic

Contents

Transgenic lupins

Seventh international Lupin Conference

Inoculation

Lupin Survey

Post emergence weed control

Fungicides post plant

Yield estimates

Projected 1992/93 Pool payments/tonne

Lupin Logic Number 34

Lupin Logic

Contents

Kiev Mutant

- Soil type

- Rainfall

- Seed treatment

Time of seeding

- Seeding rate and agitation

- Weed control

- Insects

- Harvest

- Stubble grazing

- Marketing

Breeding Albus lupins - Beavan Buirchell

4.5 tonnes per hectare

Lupin outlook - John Orr

Lupin Logic Number 33

Lupin Logic

Contents

Phosphorus for lupin crops

- Using the table

Phosphate source

Lupin seeding rates

Lime and lupins

Time of planting

1992/93 Pool payments

Lupin Logic Number 32

Lupin Logic

Contents

Lupin survey

- Lupin time of planting census 1992

- Yield

- Stand density

- Concession

- Dry seeding

- Time of seeding

Tonnes or grams

Inoculant and seed treatments

Yield losses with 0.5% CMV seed

Stubble burn?

New research on early establishment of lupins

Lupin Logic Number 31

Lupin Logic

Contents

The 1992/93 harvests - Chris Maughan, Grain Pool of WA

International market report - John Orr, Grain Pool WA

Price forecast

Early planting survey

Lupin outlook meetings

Lupins for feed and food - Barry Cox, Grain Pool WA

- Stockfeed

- Human consumption

CMV testing

Seed size

Lupin Logic Number 30

Lupin Logic

Contents

Early planting survey

Seed manganese and emergence

Lupin video

Soil testing

New manganese fertiliser

Aphids susceptibility of lupin varieties

Production Of High-Value Wheats : One Sustainable Answer To The Cost:Price Squeeze, Wal Anderson, Alan Peggs, Doug Sawkins

Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Western Australia, Series 4

Farmers and scientists alike over the past decade have sought to address the declining terms of farm trade (the cost.price squeeze) by increasing wheat yields in ways that will ensure both their economic and ecological survival. Nevertheless, costs have continued to increase as a proportion of the value of the product.

Many farmers have increased their wheat yields substantially and the industry as a whole is more conscious of the quality of its product.

Over the past 10 years or more there has been intense interest in, and considerable adoption of. conservation farming techniques such as minimum tillage, residue retention, …

Bulletin 4247 - Introduction To Commercial Mushroom Growing, Margaret Graham

Bulletins 4000 -

Mushroom cultivation began in Australia in the 1930s in the then incomplete and unused Circular Quay railway tunnel in Sydney. In the 1950s most mushrooms were grown in heaped or 'ridge-beds' of compost in disused railway tunnels.

In the last 15 to 20 years there has been considerable technical change in the method and degree of sophistication of mushroom cultivation techniques. Most growers have invested large sums of capital in specially designed and insulated buildings that control temperature, humidity and ventilation and where pest and disease prevention and control is less difficult.

The bag method also helps to alleviate pest …

Bulletin No 4247 - Introduction To Commercial Mushroom Growing, Margaret Graham

Bulletins 4000 -

No abstract provided.

Lupin Logic Number 29

Lupin Logic

Contents

The successful 1993 lupin crop

Stubble preparation

Summer weeds

Green radish kills lupin seed

Seedless pods

Is it a sample?

Green seed problem

Lupin Logic Number 27

Lupin Logic

Contents

Lupin market outlook update

Estimating lupin yields

Native budworm thwarted by wind!

Walden visits China

Eggs and larva

Lupins encourage earthworms

Seed testing

Reminders

1991/92 Pool payments

Lupin pool delivery - 191/92 verus 1992/93 estimates

Lupin Logic Number 26

Lupin Logic

Contents

Swathing to pick up an extra $24 m?

- What is swathing

- Advantages of swathing

Farmers experience with swathing

- Ross Whiitall, Esperance

- Mark Adams, Woogenellup

- Summary

- Further reading

Increased effort into albus breeding

Lupins and soil acidity- Cause for concern?

Reminders

Lupin Logic Number 24

Lupin Logic

Contents

Lupin pioneet honoured

Simazine only!

- What can we do?

Mintweed poisons crops

Japanese market

Root maggot fly

- Description and life cycle

- Farmer/advisers observations

- Control

Pool payments 1991/92

Lupin Logic Number 23

Lupin Logic

Contents

Stubble handling

- Results to date

- Straw spreading

- Second cutter bars

- Other research

Trees increase lupin yields

Mint weed, Rutherglen bud and soil moisture

Out look remains firm for lupins

Warning

Lupin Logic Number 21

Lupin Logic

Contents

Keys to lupin yield stability

- Stubble retention

- When to plant

- Rules for dry seeding

Rain and yield

Avoiding B.YM.V.

Reminders

Granulated simazine

Reasons for 45 plants per sq m

Lupin Logic Number 22

Lupin Logic

Contents

Lupins planted before April 16

European white lupin

Potassium and lupins

- Symptoms

- Occurence

- Soil testing

- Plant analysis

- Correction of deficiency

- When and how to apply

- Residual value

Reminders

Seed testing results

- Germination tests

- Seed size

- Better decisions

Lupin Logic Number 20

Lupin Logic

Contents

Countdown to seeding

- Seed

- Weeds

- Lupin inoculant

- Soil testing

- Herbicides

- Stubble preparation

Herbicide resistant ryegrass

Vaccine against lupinosis shows promise

Lupin books

Row spacing in lupins

Pool payments 1991/92

Three tonne lupin crops are possible at Mingenew

Lupin Logic Number 19

Lupin Logic

Contents

Outlook for lupins exports

- Europe

- Asia

- The Middle East

- Other market barriers

CMV misunderstandings

Seed testing

Forthcoming meetings

Lupin deliveries tonnes

Lupin pool payments per tonne

Lupin Logic Number 18

Lupin Logic

Contents

Is seed testing worthwhile in 1992?

Progress to date

Unmarked samples

Are you a lupin grower with water-repellent sand?

Blowing in the wind

Bulletin No 4216 - Broadscale Boom Spraying, Roger Doyle, Gary Dorr, Des Gilbey, John Peirce

Bulletins 4000 -

For spraying to be effective it must do the job required at a minimum cost, with no unwanted side effects. It is impo1tant to use the right chemical at the right rate, at the right tin1e and in the best conditions.

It is just as important that both the sprayer and the way it is used allows you to meet this objective. This Bulletin will help you select the right boom sprayer, maintain it for efficient operation and use it efficiently and safely.