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Full-Text Articles in Physical Sciences and Mathematics
Farm Systems Research Involving New Pasture Species., C. W. Thorn, C. K. Revell
Farm Systems Research Involving New Pasture Species., C. W. Thorn, C. K. Revell
Experimental Summaries - Plant Research
The effect of grazing on Circle Valley medic production. Effect of rotations on M. polyrnorpha production and persistence and cereal crop yields, 84 KA 35, 85 LG 44, 84 KA 37 Effect of tillage x gypsum x nitrogen on continuous cereal production, 84 KA 28. Effect of gypsum x seeding rate on the seed yield of three pasture legumes. Pasture species tolerance to grass and broadleaf herbicides. Undersowing cereal crops with burr medic.
Phosphorus Nutrition., M. D. Bolland, M. J. Baker, C. H. Phillips
Phosphorus Nutrition., M. D. Bolland, M. J. Baker, C. H. Phillips
Experimental Summaries - Plant Research
Trials reported on: 85 NA 34, 85 NA 35, 85 NO 63, 85 BA 34, 85 BA 36, 85 BA 37, 76 WH 9, 84 E 31, 84 M 63, 84 NO 69, 77 MT 2, 78 BA 7, 65 A 1, 69 WH 15.
Long Term Rotation Trials, Lupins: Wheat Rotation., I. Rowland, W. Hawkins
Long Term Rotation Trials, Lupins: Wheat Rotation., I. Rowland, W. Hawkins
Experimental Summaries - Plant Research
Long term rotation trials 66M29, 67C13, 67N4, 68E5, 65SG5, 73SG16, Lupins : wheat rotation 80TS3, 82TS2, 82M26.
Soil Acidity In The Eastern Wheatbelt., W. Porter, S. Carr, P. Bourne
Soil Acidity In The Eastern Wheatbelt., W. Porter, S. Carr, P. Bourne
Experimental Summaries - Plant Research
Effect of profile acidity on nutrient and water use by wheat, 85M48. Effect of liming a wodjil soil prile on lupin production, 82ME10 and 82M5 . Lime banding in acid subsoils for wheat, 81M54. Liming topsoil. Rates of lime on wheat, 80M30. Residual value of lime (lupins 1985) 80M31. Survey Survey of extremely poor eastern wheatbelt yellow earth soils, 85ME92
Summary Of Rhizobium Experiments., J G. Howieson
Summary Of Rhizobium Experiments., J G. Howieson
Experimental Summaries - Plant Research
The screening of 33 isolates of R. meliloti collected in Sardinia in 1984, and isolated on a low pH medium, 84ME33. Assessment of the possibility of establishing an 'Index of Symbiotic Competence' for species of Medicago, 85M57. Assessment of the effectiveness of several strains of R. meliloti on M.littoralis, and their saprophytic competence in an acid soil, 84ME35. The screening of the pre-1984 collection of R.meliloti held at the W.A. Department of Agriculture for acid tolerance, 84M34. Assessment of the survival of the Serena WSM419 symbiosis on a range of soil types, 84ME32, 84WH24, 84N18. Assessment of the acid tolerance …
Pasture Manipulation And Root Diseases Of Cereals., W Macleod
Pasture Manipulation And Root Diseases Of Cereals., W Macleod
Experimental Summaries - Plant Research
Rotation for wheat comparing pure clover ley with a pasture ley, 79E15. Pasture renovation techniques and crop production in a 1:2 rotation, 81E35. Pasture manipulation effects on take-all, 85E32
Studies On The Effects Of Nutrition And Tillage Systems On Cereal Root Diseases., R. F. Brennan
Studies On The Effects Of Nutrition And Tillage Systems On Cereal Root Diseases., R. F. Brennan
Experimental Summaries - Plant Research
Micronutrients (Cu, Zn) and take-all, 83ES39, 83ES40. Nitrogen and Phosphorus rates and take-all, 83ES41, 83ES42, 83ES43. Split applications of Nitrogen and take-all, 84N1. Take-all and Manganese/Ammonium interaction, 84E1. Split applications of Nitrogen and take-all, 84E2. Cu residual on wheat and take-all, 67E9, 67E8. Take-all and Manganese/Ammonium interaction, 84LG2. Cultivation depths and timing effects on Rhizoctonia, 84E24. Chemical fallow and cultivation effects on Rhizoctonia, 85E33. Effects of cultivation depths and machines on Rhizoctonia and yield, 85E29.
Root And Foliar Diseases Of Wheat On Sandplain In The Geraldton Region., J. Wilson
Root And Foliar Diseases Of Wheat On Sandplain In The Geraldton Region., J. Wilson
Experimental Summaries - Plant Research
A project funded by Wheat Industry Research Council and Wheat Industry Research Committee of W.A. Interactions between stubble, rotation, ripping and nitrogen, ECRS, 85C53. The effect of type of cultivation implement, and time of cultivation, ECRS, 85C54. The effect of fumigation, ECRS, 85C91. Residual ripping responses from 1984, 84C15.
Long Term Minimum Tillage Investigations, Stubble Management Techniques, Deep Ripping And Seeding Machine Comparisons., R. J. Jarvis, L. G. Butcher, L. D.J. Smith
Long Term Minimum Tillage Investigations, Stubble Management Techniques, Deep Ripping And Seeding Machine Comparisons., R. J. Jarvis, L. G. Butcher, L. D.J. Smith
Experimental Summaries - Plant Research
77 A 16, red/brown sandy loam. 77 WH 17, yellow clayey-sand (Wongan loamy sand). 77 M 13, red sandy clay loam (salmon gum, gimlet). 78 M 25, Yellow acid loamy sand (Wodgil). 77 Mt 15 Gravelly loamy sand/sandy loam - forest soil 77 E 18, fine white sand over fine sandy clay. 77 A 43, Brown loamy sand/sandy loam - Jam country.77 WH 88, Grey loamy sand over gravel at 50 cm - Elphin soil series – Mallee. 77 M 56, Red sandy clay loam - Salmon Gum, Gimlet. 82 M 35, Loamy sand/sandy loam – Mallee. 77 E 52, …
Experimental Summaries Various Trials 1985, R Madin, F Schoonens, A Lindsay
Experimental Summaries Various Trials 1985, R Madin, F Schoonens, A Lindsay
Experimental Summaries - Plant Research
85WH55, 85M55. The effect of timing of Roundup and spray.
85NO87, Evaluation of herbicides for control of lupins in cereals.
85NO89, Control of self sown lupins in cereal crops.
85NA59, Grass controI in barley with Isoproturon, Cinch and Metribuzin.
85NO88, Control of wild oats with hoegrass and oil.
85NO86, Tolerance of wheat to hoegrass and oil.
85NO84, Tolerance of lupins to Fusilade plus oil.
85NA63, Ryegrass control in crop with hoegrass plus crop oil.
85A15, Rates of Fusilade for seed set control in grasses.
85A17, Pasture topping herbicides and oils (Silvergrass).
85WH64, Crop oil additives to seed set control herbicides. …
Weed Seed Ecology, A H. Cheam
Weed Seed Ecology, A H. Cheam
Experimental Summaries - Plant Research
Emergence of weed seedlings from different soil depths. 82MT49, Mt Barker Research Station. 83MT4, Mt Barker Research Station. 82NR12, Northam Research Station. 83NR2, Northam Research Station. 82C37, Chapman Research Station. 83C3, Chapman Research Station. Longevity of buried weed seeds. 82MT50, Mt Barker Research Station. 83MT5, Mt Barker Research Station. 82NR13, Northam Research Station. 83NR3, Northam Research Station. 82C38, Chapman Research Station. 83C4, Chapman Research Station. Emergence of weed seedlings in relation to soil type and cultivation. 82PE32, South Perth. Emergence and fate of weed seeds in different depths of cultivated and undisturbed compacted soil. 84C49, Chapman Research Station. 84MT62, Mt …
Laser Levelling Land For Flood Irrigation, M D. Green, J. P. Middlemas
Laser Levelling Land For Flood Irrigation, M D. Green, J. P. Middlemas
Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Western Australia, Series 4
Since the introduction of laser levelling to Western Australia's South-West irrigation area five years ago, many farmers have benefited from this new and precise method of land-forming.
The use of lasser controlled earthmoving equipment to redevelop irrigated paddocks has led to improved irrigation efficiency and drainage. Less water is used for each irrigation, water is applied more evenly and less labour is needed. many older, grass-dominated paddocks have been reseeded to improve pasture species.
Eradicating Fruit Fly From Carnarvon, Kingsley Thomas Fisher
Eradicating Fruit Fly From Carnarvon, Kingsley Thomas Fisher
Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Western Australia, Series 4
Late last year the Mediteranean fruit fly (Ceratitis capitata Weidemann) was eradicated from Canarvon, Western Australia by using an intergrated programme of sterile insect releases and bait spraying.
The eradication marked the end of a four-year study on the use and effectiveness of the Sterile Insect Technique, a biological control technique which uses an insect pest against itself. such a study can be used as a basis for treating other threatening insect pests, such as the serious cattle pest screw-worm fly, should they be found in Asustralia.
Being a biological control method, the Sterile Insect Technique is an exellent …
Water Quality For Irrigation, P R. George
Water Quality For Irrigation, P R. George
Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Western Australia, Series 4
Although irrigation and salinity problems are frequently inseperable, there is a range of management methods that can be used to handle marginal quality water. Freuently these methods are simple, but require careful planning.
The wide range in tolerance of crops to salinity can be exploiter to ensure that appropriate crops are selected for the water available.
Because crops vary in their sensitivity to salt uptake in the leaves or the roots, watering methods can be changed to avoid problems. For profitable production enough water should be applied to ensure adequate water is available for plant growth as well as to …
Salinity Control In Northern China, G A. Robertson
Salinity Control In Northern China, G A. Robertson
Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Western Australia, Series 4
China has vast areas of saline land, perhaps as much as six million hectares. Some of this saline land is a result of marine influence in coastal areas and some is the resultof soil formation in areas with saline geological deposits and inadequate rainfall to leach out the salts at that time.
However, most saline soils in China are as a result of secondary salinisation processess induced by a hydrological imbalance resulting from over-clearing of the land or irrigation. This imbalance has produced rising watertables bringing the salt closer to the soil surface.
In this article, G..A. Robertson, Commissioner …
Residual Values Of Australian Rock Phosphates, Michael D A Bolland
Residual Values Of Australian Rock Phosphates, Michael D A Bolland
Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Western Australia, Series 4
For years superphosphate has been the cheapest, convenient and most effective way of supplying phosphorus to newly cleared soils in Western Australia's South-West that are acutely deficient in phosphorus. However its effectiveness as a phosphorus source falls markedly after application. Regular applications are needed to maintaine profitable pastures and crops on these soils.
After a big jump in supperphosphate prices in the mid 970s, researchers tested the use of Australian rock phosphates as potentially cheaper alternative phosphorus fertilisers to superphosphate. On the none-leaching sands, as this article shows, none of the rock phosphates was as effective for plant growth as …
Water Supplies : Dams And Roaded Catchments, W J. Burdass, T. R. Negus, A. L. Prout, I. A. F. Laing
Water Supplies : Dams And Roaded Catchments, W J. Burdass, T. R. Negus, A. L. Prout, I. A. F. Laing
Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Western Australia, Series 4
Western Australia's Upper and Lower Great Southern statistical areas include most of the broad-scale agricultural land south of a line from Perth to Hyden. Much of the area is well-developed and carries 13.4 million sheep, 203 00 cattle and 95 000 pigs, almost half the State's livestock.
There are few natural rivers and lakes to water livestock in summer and much of the bore water is salty. On-farm waterr conservation, therefore, consits mainly of excavated earth tanks (dams) which are filled by surface runoff or shallow seepage. In the drier areas and in the sandplain roaded catchments have neen built …
Dam Site Selection In The North-Eastern Wheatbelt, J L. Frith
Dam Site Selection In The North-Eastern Wheatbelt, J L. Frith
Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Western Australia, Series 4
Western Australia's wheatbelt farm dams are dug three to eight metres deep and are generally sited in soils which either are inherently impermeable or can be made so during construction.
In the eastern and north-eastern wheatbelt, however, only a small proportion of the soils meets these criteria. Dam site selection in these areas therefore depends on a good knowledge ofwhich soils aresuitable and on our being able to locate them efficiently by using surface indications such as surface soil, natural vegetation or topographic features.
Low Rainfall Pasture Project., M. A. Ewing
Low Rainfall Pasture Project., M. A. Ewing
Experimental Summaries - Plant Research
Variety experiments, rows 85M53, small plots 85M54, large plots, 85M43, 85N21, 85ME49, 85M44. defoliation comparison, 85M41. Pasture establishment systems, 85N25, 85N26, 85M52, 85M45, 85M46, 85M47, 85ME61, 85M62, 85M63. Cereals following pastures, 84M42, 84M43, 84M56, 84M57, 84LG34. Pasture wheat rotation, 82WH39, 82M47.
Farm Debt In The Wheatbelt : 1984 Survey Results, R S. Kingwell
Farm Debt In The Wheatbelt : 1984 Survey Results, R S. Kingwell
Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Western Australia, Series 4
In recent years many farms in Western Australia's wheat-growing areas have experienced adverse seasons. For example, the 1983-84 season was characterised by a late start, dry spring and wet harvest which resulted in many farms suffering a combination of low yields and the downgrading or dockage of their grain.
Poor seasons and poor profitability prospects for wheat-growing caused some concern about farm indebtedness in these areas.
In late 1983, a Parlimentary select committee was appointed to inquire into rural hardship. The State Minister for Agriculture also announced that the Department of Agriculture would conduct a farm survey to determine the …
Improved Catchments For Farm Dams, I A F Laing
Improved Catchments For Farm Dams, I A F Laing
Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Western Australia, Series 4
The amounts and frequency of runoff from unimproved farmland catchments in Western Australia's cereal and sheep districts are notoriously variable and unreliable. As a result many farmers have constructed improved catchments to ensure better reliability of farm dams for livestock and homestead water supplies.
Improved catchments which are used extensively on these farms are all of the compacted or bare-earth type. These include roaded catchments, flat batter dams and, to a lesser extent, scraped catchments. This article mainly discusses roaded catchments, the most common of the improved catchment types on farms.
Sandplain Hardpan : A Different Dam Construction Material, A F. Mccrea
Sandplain Hardpan : A Different Dam Construction Material, A F. Mccrea
Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Western Australia, Series 4
Before 1980, the Department of Agriculture did not believe that suitable farm dam materials could be found in light land soils. However Beacon earthmoving contractor, V> J> Pavlinovich, has demonstrated that where suitable cemented subsoils or 'hardpan' existed, a succcessful dam site could be found.
This material should not be confused with compaction or traffic hardpans ehich are dense layers of soil found near the surface. Traffic hardpans result from compaction of soil materials with the passage of vehicles and farm machinery. Rather, the hardpan referred to here is a natural subsoil layer that has been cemented by silica and …
Drainage Prospects For Saline Wheatbelt Soils, P R. George
Drainage Prospects For Saline Wheatbelt Soils, P R. George
Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Western Australia, Series 4
Sub-surface or groundwater drainage by buried tube drains or open ditches can reclaim saltland in the Western Australian wheatbelt. However, this method is expensive and not all sites can be drained cost-effectively. Each drainage site is unique, so careful investigation of each site is essential before recommendations on drainage method and design can be made.
Hillside Seepages, R A. Nulsen
Hillside Seepages, R A. Nulsen
Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Western Australia, Series 4
'Hillside seepage' is a local, descriptive term applied to almost any wet patch occurring out of the valley bottom. Depending on their surface appearances, 'hillside seepages' are described as 'springs', 'soaks', 'wet patches', or seeps.
Whatever they are called, seeps can cause problems. The land in the seep is wet, unworkable and non-productive. If the seep is saline and the water flows downhill, further land is lost from production, bared and subject to erosion. Even small seeps, while not affecting much land, break up a paddock and complicate the working pattern for tillage and harvest.
Draining A Saline Seep, W J. Burdass
Draining A Saline Seep, W J. Burdass
Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Western Australia, Series 4
Sub-surface drains have dried out a salty seep on farm land in the Katanning district. Capeweed and clovers are now growing on more than three-quarters of the land that was previously bare or carried only patchy sea barley grass.
The drains are still running water after five years. The salt content of the surface soil has been reduced markedly and the salt content of the effluent water is decreasing.
However, to complete the reclamation, further drains will be necessary. Both existing and any new drains will have to be flushed periodically because blockages of pipes cause problems.
Damage Report Of The West Coastal Wildfire Wongonderrah Area 31st January - 5th February 1985 And Its Effects On The Western Australian Beekeeping Industry, R C. Burking
Apiculture research reports
No abstract provided.
Interceptor Drains And Waterlogging Control, J W. Cox, T R. Negus
Interceptor Drains And Waterlogging Control, J W. Cox, T R. Negus
Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Western Australia, Series 4
Department of Agriculture trials of seepage interceptor drains from 1972 to 1983 primarily assessed the effects of such drains on salt encroachment. Although these trials showed that the drains had little influence on salt storage within the topsoil, they did reduce waterlogging downslope.
To investigate this drainage effect further, the Department's Narrogin office surveyed 35 drains on 14 properties in the winter of 1981, followed by detailed crop measurements in December that year. Provided the drains were properly designed, surveyed and constructed, and well maintained, they could be expected to increase crop yields during a waterlogging year by about 1 …
Barley Foliage Diseases, Field Pea Diseases., T. N. Khan, K. Brain, M. Judges, K. J. Young, I. Pritchard, T. Sweeny, J. Hamblyn
Barley Foliage Diseases, Field Pea Diseases., T. N. Khan, K. Brain, M. Judges, K. J. Young, I. Pritchard, T. Sweeny, J. Hamblyn
Experimental Summaries - Plant Research
85BA22, 85MT31, 85N053, 85BA24, 85MT32, 85MT32, 85N052, 85N053, 85BA21, 85MT30, 85BA21, 85BA22, 85MT31, 85MT43, 85KA59, 85KA60, 85M29, 85MT44, 85E22, 85ES22, 85ES23, 85N051, 85BA25, 85WH27, 85C65, 85C69, 85C66, 85C67, 8SKA48, 8SMT34, 85KA47, 85MT33, 85M26, 85ME26, 85KA49, 85KA51.
A.General Notes and Highlights
BARLEY FOLIAGE DISEASES
B. Scald: Screening fungicides
c. Scald: Fungicidal control in Northam district
D. Scald: Effect of seeding rate
E. Scald & Mildew Effect of fungicides and rates
F. Scald & Mildew Seed borne infection and seed dressing
G. Scald & Mildew Effect of seed dressing and spraying
H. Scald & Mildew Effect of Erex and Baytan
I. Mildew: …
Damage Report Of The West Coastal Wildfire : Nilgen Nature Reserve And Adjacent Military Area, North Lancelin 29th-30th May 1985 And Its Effects On The Western Australian Beekeeping Industry, R C. Burking
Apiculture research reports
No abstract provided.
Assessment Of Waterlogged Sites, D J. Mcfarlane
Assessment Of Waterlogged Sites, D J. Mcfarlane
Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Western Australia, Series 4
Soil is said to be waterlogged if any part of the plant root zone is saturated with water. In severe cases soil is saturated to the surface and waterlogging is obvious. Waterlogging is distinguished from flooding in which surface runoff brings down water from higher up in a catchment. However, flooding may result in waterlogged sites.