Pasture seed production in Western Australia

Pasture seed production in Western Australia is an industry with a somewhat turbulent past. Booms and slumps have been the rule rather than the exception. However, during the past few years there has been some degree of stability —if not in price, at least in terms of total production

The naturalised and cultivated annual medics of Western Australia

IT is not many years since the term pasture improvement in Western Australia was synonymous with one species only, subterranean clover. The amazing adaptability of this species to the environment enabled it to be grown in a wide range of rainfall conditions and in many different districts

Pasture seeds : 1965 statistics and comments

A KNOWLEDGE of market conditions and procedures is not of direct importance to some primary producers. For example, cereal growers as individuals are neither in a position to negotiate prices nor does their production have any direct effect on prices

Annual pasture and weed plant ecology

The purpose of this article is to outline a few basic principles of pasture and weed ecology with particular reference to seed dormancy mechanisms. These principles apply to many pasture plants and weeds, although their relative importance varies with the particular plants under study

Pasture seeds : production techniques and the future market situation

Like other farming and grazing industries, pasture seed production has its share of booms and slumps —perhaps more than its share. In Western Australia, the industry reached a high point during the mid-1960\u27s when land development along the south and west coastal districts was at its height. The drought year of 1969 and the subsequent rural depression saw pasture seed production fall to its lowest level for ten years and it is only in the last 12 months that there has been a revival. With the sudden upsurge of interest last summer there will be many potential seed producers now wondering about the future, and it is therefore an appropriate time to attempt some predictions

The production of pasture seeds : facts and figures

THE production of grass and legume pasture seeds in Western Australia has expanded noticeably in the last two or three years With this expansion has come some publicity, at times accurate at other times not so accurate

Correct common names of herbage plants

NEARLY all plants have both a scientific name and a common name. Some, unfortunately, have two, three, four or more common names, and this causes a great deal of confusion, particularly in the buying and selling of pasture seeds

Strains of subterranean clover in Western Australia

The use of subterranean clover as a pasture plant in Australia dates back to 1889, for it was then that A. W. Howard, at Mt. Barker, in South Australia, recognised its value. However, despite his efforts to popularise the use of this clover, it remained unappreciated for many years. The first sale of commercial seed took place in 1906, but the area sown to subterranean clover showed no upward trend until 1920

Some notes on Woogenellup subterranean clover

Over the last few years an early midseason type of subterranean clover, commonly known as Pearsons or White Flowered Mid has attracted the attention of a number of farmers in the South-West and lower Great Southern districts. In some instances their enthusiasm for the strain was such that on at least three properties attempts were made to segregate pure lines for seed production