Online tools

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.

Use MyPestGuide CropScout to help determine spray timing for pests, such as aphids, in crops. 

Use FlowerPower online tool to predict cereal flowering dates (or cutting dates for oats) in your location.

Use MyEconomic Tool to assess the economic risk and financial impact of various treatment options in broadacre grains crops.

Use the WA crop sequence calculator to compare crop sequence options. The tool is based on trial results and historic data from Western Australia. 

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.

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.

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.

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.

Use MyPestGuide Diseases to compare what you have observed in your crop with a database of potential diseases to be identified.

Net blotch is a fungal disease that can reduce yield and grain quality of barley crops. The NetBlotchBM app assists growers with foliar fungicide application decisions, and the likely economic returns from those decisions.

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.

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.

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.

UCI BlacklegCM is a tool designed to help growers and consultants with management decisions for canola blackleg upper canopy infections in Australia.

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.

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.

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.

The interactive Freshwater Fish distribution map allows you to explore freshwater fish locations within Western Australia.

Food and beverage producers may use this search to shortlist providers of professional services to the food and beverage industry in Western Australia.

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.

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).

Use the Annual feed budget for sheep enterprises tool to estimate the supplementary feed requirements of a sheep enterprise for a single year.

Use the deferred grazing calculator to determine how many days it will take to meet a pasture target at a particular pasture growth rate.

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.

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.

The Sheep condition scoring app helps sheep managers record condition scores of multiple mobs, calculate the mean and view histogram of the scores.

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.

Use this tool to view the latest pregnancy scanning rates (reproductive rate) of WA sheep flocks.

The Strip grazing calculator allows you to determine the area of the strip within a paddock that is required for your sheep.

Use the supplementary feeding calculator for pregnant and lactating ewes to calculate the supplementary feed required when green feed availability is low.

This interactive map is a guide for locating potential sites for new farm dams, and also provides information to help determine where existing dams may be at risk from dryland salinity.

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.

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.

Natural Resource Information (NRInfo) supplies maps and data about soil landscapes; land systems, capability and quality; water and native vegetation information across Western Australia.

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.

The Pastoral Remote Sensing application offers satellite-based mapping tools and related information for every pastoral lease in Western Australia.

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.

The MyPestGuide® suite of apps create a collaborative network of people to identify, report, map and learn about pests and other organisms. 

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.