Crops
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Use the canola seeding rate calculator to easily calculate the seeding rate needed for good crop establishment, as this will set the crop up for its potential yield.View more about Canola seeding rate calculator
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Use MyPestGuide CropScout to help determine spray timing for pests, such as aphids, in crops.View more about MyPestGuide CropScout
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Use FlowerPower online tool to predict cereal flowering dates (or cutting dates for oats) in your location.View more about FlowerPower
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Use MyEconomic Tool to assess the economic risk and financial impact of various treatment options in broadacre grains crops.View more about MyEconomic tool
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Use the WA crop sequence calculator to compare crop sequence options. The tool is based on trial results and historic data from Western Australia.View more about WA crop sequence calculator
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The Weed Seed Wizard is a national collaborative project that uses paddock management information to predict weed emergence and crop losses now and in the future.View more about Weed Seed Wizard
Crop disease management
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BlacklegCM is a tool designed to assist growers and consultants to determine the best and most profitable management strategy to reduce blackleg crown canker disease in canola and increase profits.View more about BlacklegCM
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This prediction is based on output from our blackleg sporacle model, which forecasts the development of ascospore maturity on canola residues from previous crops based on weather conditions.View more about Canola blackleg spore maturity forecast
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Blackspot in field peas can occur from infected seed, through the soil and, most commonly, through infected pea stubble. Summer and autumn conditions determine the release of the blackspot spores.View more about Blackspot in field peas disease forecast
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Powdery mildew is a fungal disease where infected plants display white powdery spots on the leaves and stems. PowderyMildewMBM uses a forecasting model to assist mungbean growers with fungicide application decisions.View more about PowderyMildewMBM
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Sclerotinia is a plant pathogenic fungus and can cause a disease called white mold if conditions are conducive. SclerotiniaCM is designed to assist growers to reduce the impact of sclerotinia stem rot in canola.View more about Sclerotinia CM
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Stripe rust is a fungal disease that can devastate wheat production. The StripeRustWM app uses a forecasting model to assists growers with fungicide application decisions, and the likely economic returns from those decisions.View more about StripeRustWM
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UCI BlacklegCM is a tool designed to help growers and consultants with management decisions for canola blackleg upper canopy infections in Australia.View more about UCI BlacklegCM
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Yellow spot is a fungal leaf disease of wheat that can reduce grain quality and cause yield losses. YellowSpotWM assists growers in determining the best management strategy to reduce the disease in wheat.View more about YellowSpotWM
Farming
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Extrata® is a new data exchange hub that makes sharing data easier and more efficient. Through sharing and leveraging data, primary producers can make data-informed decisions that can positively impact farm productivity and profitability.View more about Extrata®
Fishing
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Fish Eye allows you to securely transact with us online for the West Coast rock lobster, abalone and marine aquarium fisheries, making it quicker and easier to submit trip returns and catch data.View more about Fish Eye
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FishCatchWA™ is a digital tool on the ServiceWA app, which allows you to log your recreational catch of demersal scalefish in the West Coast bioregion.View more about FishCatchWA™
Food & Beverage and Importing/Exporting
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Food and beverage producers may use this search to shortlist providers of professional services to the food and beverage industry in Western Australia.View more about WA Food and Beverage Professional Service Provider Directory
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To import goods into Western Australia (WA), it must be permitted. Use the search to check whether the commodity you want to import is permitted in WA and has import requirements.View more about Western Australian Import Requirements Search
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The WA Organism List (WAOL) provides the legal status of organisms that have been declared to be either permitted species or declared pests under the Biosecurity and Agriculture Management Act 2007 (BAM Act).View more about Western Australian Organism List
Livestock
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Use the Annual feed budget for sheep enterprises tool to estimate the supplementary feed requirements of a sheep enterprise for a single year.View more about Annual feed budget for sheep enterprises
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Use the deferred grazing calculator to determine how many days it will take to meet a pasture target at a particular pasture growth rate.View more about Deferred grazing calculator
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Use the feed cost calculator to determine the lowest cost for the feed value of a chosen mix of sheep feeds, in terms of energy and protein, and other variables.View more about Feed cost calculator
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The Lambing Planner is a simple tool that allows you to change a joining date to see the impacts on lambing date and key tasks throughout the reproductive year.View more about Lambing Planner
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The Sheep condition scoring app helps sheep managers record condition scores of multiple mobs, calculate the mean and view histogram of the scores.View more about Sheep condition scoring app
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Use the Sheep flock composition calculator to determine the impact on flock structure of changes made to retaining or selling classes of sheep or changing the weaning ratio over 6 years.View more about Sheep flock composition calculator
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Use this tool to view the latest pregnancy scanning rates (reproductive rate) of WA sheep flocks.View more about Sheep pregnancy scanning benchmarks tool
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The Strip grazing calculator allows you to determine the area of the strip within a paddock that is required for your sheep.View more about Strip grazing calculator
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Use the supplementary feeding calculator for pregnant and lactating ewes to calculate the supplementary feed required when green feed availability is low.View more about Supplementary feeding calculator for pregnant and lactating ewes
Pastures
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The iLime app compares liming strategies on your paddock. Calculate value for money lime source based on cost, freight, quality and reaction for your defined soil type.View more about iLime
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Use MyPaddock tool to visualise the impact of about 40 production constraints on wheat crop yield in Western Australia and rapidly interpret test results and field observations from a given paddock.View more about MyPaddock
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Use the Nutrient Calculator to evaluate your soil sample results, and estimate soil nutrient status and requirements, and the fertiliser quantities to supply those nutrients.View more about Nutrient calculator
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The Pastoral Remote Sensing application offers satellite-based mapping tools and related information for every pastoral lease in Western Australia.View more about Pastoral Remote Sensing
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Pastures from Space ™ provides estimates of Pasture Growth Rate (PGR) and Feed on Offer (FOO) on a weekly basis across the South West Agricultural region of Western Australia.View more about Pastures from Space™
Pests and diseases
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The MyPestGuide® suite of apps create a collaborative network of people to identify, report, map and learn about pests and other organisms.View more about MyPestGuide
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PestFacts WA is an interactive reporting service that provides risk alerts, and current information and advice on pests and diseases threatening crops and pastures throughout WA's grainbelt during each growing season.View more about PestFacts WA
Weather
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The department's Application Programming Interface (API) gateway is a free service for producers and industry to access current data related to weather and other conditions that impact on agricultural farming.View more about Farm data - Application Programming Interface
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Use the Extreme weather events tool to help assess heat and frost damage. The tool uses data from the department's extensive weather station network to map air temperatures, relative humidity, dew point and more.View more about Extreme weather events tool
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Hydro Guide is an interactive map used to explore surface-water flowlines, farm dams and lakes, land surface contours and terrain slope within the south-west WA agricultural region.View more about Hydro Guide
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Use the Irrigation calculator for broad guidance on the water requirements of commercial crops produced in Western Australia based on average weather data from the past 25 years and several variables.View more about Irrigation calculator
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The potential yield tool uses seasonal rainfall and decile finishes, calculated from historical data, to calculate the maximum wheat yield possible in the absence of any other constraints.View more about Potential yield tool
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Rainfall to Date graphs show the amount of rainfall accumulated from the start of the grain growing season and can be used as a seasonal decision-making tool.View more about Rainfall to date tool
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The Soil water tool is used to provide an approximate of the amount of water accumulated in soil from the start of summer through to the grain growing season.View more about Soil water tool
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Learn about the weather stations across Western Australia providing local weather data to help growers and community members make planning decisions.View more about Weather stations and radar