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Cauliflower Exports Show Strong Growth, Dennis Phillips

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

Cauliflowers were Western Australia's second most valuable horticultural export crop after carrots in 1993-94 with 11,593 tonnes exported for an estimated FOB value of $12.9 million.

Exports have increased 89 per cent in the last five years with spectacular growth in the January to March period. Western Australian exporters have effectively displaced Taiwan from the Singapore and Malaysian markets in this period to become year-round suppliers.

The crop is exported fresh by air or sea with Singapore and Malaysia accounting for more than 90 per cent of sales. Other traditional markets include Hong Kong and Brunei with small quantities going …

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

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

Export Of Rockmelons From The Ord River, John Bonnardeaux

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

The Ord River Irrigation Area and Carnarvon are the main production areas for cucurbits in northern Western Australia. Cucurbits are also grown in Derby, Broome and around Lagrange, south of Broome.

The area planted to rockmelons in the Ord River Irrigation Area has increased from 20 ha in 1980 to 425 ha in 1992.

Rockmelon production, the most important horticultural industry in the Ord River Irrigation Area, is worth about $9 million. It accounts for about 25 per cent of the Ord's dry season value of production

Production And Marketing Of Vegetables And Fruit, John Burt

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

Vegetable and fruit production in Western Australia is a diverse, high value industry. Up to 75 different crops are grown from Kununurra in the north to Albany on the south coast.

Our horticultural industries were worth $238,127,000 in 1990-.91, which represented 18 per cent of all crops produced in Western Australia.

Markets for horticultural produce are volatile. For most lines, produce has been well supplied for the past four years, owing to an increasing area of production, higher yields, improved postharvest technology and reduced consumer demand in the recent recession.

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 …

The Export Carrot Industry, Angie Galati, Allan Mckay

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

Carrots are the single most important horticultural export commodity from Western Australia.

In 1991-92, over 23,000 tonnes of carrots worth more than $12 million (fob) were exported. The State now exports about 70 per cent of its carrot production to Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong and the Middle East (see Table 1). These exports account for more than 90 per cent of Australian carrot exports. The State's carrot exports started in the mid 1970s. In 1977-78, only 2170 tofcarrots were exported, but exports have increased steadily since then (see Figure 1).

Export Of Asparagus From The Ord River, John Bonnardeaux, Chris Robinson

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

Fresh asparagus is presently supplied to Australian markets from August to March from temperate regions. For the remainder of the year, there is no significant production of fresh spears in Australia.

Recent research in Taiwan, Zambia and Zimbabwe has indicated quality asparagus can be grown in tropical and subtropical regions. The harvest period can be manipulated by withholding irrigation water and cutting fems to make spears grow out-of-season.

Mango Exports From Western Australia, Peter Johnson, John Gallagher, Terry Hill

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

The Department of Agriculture has been at the forefront in developing a mango industry in Western Australia.

In Camarvon, the Department is concentrating on developing an export industry, while in the Ord River Irrigation Area trials have identified suitable domestic and export varieties for that environment.

The effect of planting density, hedging and pruning techniques on yield is being examined. Research has also started on identifying superior selections of the Kensington Pride variety, the most commercially important variety in Australia. The aim is to improve fruit quality, bearing reliability, and to extend the production season..

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