Australia agriculture

Bee, G.A. and G. Laslett (2002) Development of a rainfed lucerne-based farming system in the Mediterranean climatic region of southwestern. Australia.-Agricultural Water Management 53, 111-116. 

Williams, C.H., 1975. The chemical nature of sulphur compounds in soils. In K.D. Mc-Lachlan (Editor), Sulfur in Australia Agriculture, pp. 21—30. 

Cotton is the common name for Gossypium spp., a tropical and subtropical plant from the Malvaceae family. In 2014/15, 44.34 MMT of cotton oilseeds were produced worldwide, generating 15.48 and 5.13 MMT of cottonseed meal (mainly for ruminant feeding) and oil, respectively, located mainly in China, India, United States, and Australia (Agriculture, 2015). 

Malcolm, C.V. (1983). Wheatbelt salinity, a review of the salt land problem in South-Western Australia. Technical Bulletin No. 52. Perth Western Australia Department of Agriculture. 

S. E. Cook and R. G. V. Brantley, Precision agriculture—opportunities, benefits and pitfalls of site-specific crop management in Australia. Aust. J. E.rp. Aftric. 38 753 (1998). 

Nicholas C. Uren Department of Agricultural Sciences, La Trobe University, Bundoora, Victoria, Australia... 

More than 200 engineers and scientists participated in the development of EPIC and more than 50 publications describe testing and use of the model.70 EPIC is in use by the Natural Resource and Conservation Service the Agricultural Research Service of the USDA Iowa State Texas A M Washington State in Australia Syria Jordan Canada Germany Taiwan and other countries and universities around the world. 

School of Agriculture and Food Sciences (Animal Science) The University of Queensland, Gatton, QLD, Australia... 

Reece, R.L., P.C. Scott, W.M. Forsyth, J.A. Gould, and D.A. Barr. 1985. Toxicity episodes involving agricultural chemicals and other substances in birds in Victoria, Australia. Veterin. Rec. 117 525-527. 

Outside of the United States, fenvalerate is used on cotton (Gossypium hirsutum) in Australia, Greece, and South Africa, and on apples (Malus sp.), pears (Pyrus sp.), and potatoes (Solarium sp., Ipomea sp.) in Canada (Reed 1981) uses in other countries, including Mexico, are anticipated (Reed 1981), as is increased use against agricultural, poultry, dairy, and household pests (Mumtaz... 

Most agricultural wastes contain valuable nutrients that could be recycled back onto the land in order to improve soil fertility and increase the sustainability of farming systems. For example, in South Australia there are over 400000 pigs that produce about 2400ML of waste annually and this waste contains enough nitrogen to fertilise about 200000ha of wheat or barley. 

The APOE alleles show a peculiar distribution in the world (12,47,487). The APOE-3 allele is the most frequent in aU human societies, especially in populations with a long-established agricultural economy, such as those of the Mediterranean basin, where the allele frequency is 0.849-0.898. APOE-4 is the ancestral allele, with a frequency that stiU remains higher in Pygmies (0.407) and Khoi San (0.370), aborigines of Malaysia (0.240) and Australia (0.260), Papuans (0.368), some Native Americans (0.280), and Lapps (0.310), for whom an economy of foraging still exists or food supply is scarce or sporadically available. The frequency of the APOE-2 allele fluctuates with no apparent trend (0.145-0.02), is absent in Native Americans, and is very low (<1%) in southern Europeans (12,20,47,487-489). 

Soil salinization is the first stage of environmental destruction caused by sahnity and is related to river and lake salinization. For example, the diversion of the Amu Darya and Syr Darya Rivers caused significant desiccation of the Aral Sea, but it also caused salinization of associated agricultural land (e.g., Funakawa et al. 2000 Spoor 1998). In Australia, soil salinization is the most severe environmental problem on the continent, causing dramatic changes in landscape, industry, and the future of farmland (e.g., Dehaan and Taylor 2002). 

Richardson, H. (1996). Pesticide Application and Community Health Hazard. Agricultural Engineering Australia 25 (2) 13-19. 

This example illustrates the benefits and costs of introducing plants to new localities. Over the mere two hundred years of European settlement in Australia many of the World s most important crop and pasture plants and all of the World s worst weeds (Table I) have been introduced to the continent. The latter have attained problem status and several other introductions, such as Echium plantagineum L. (Paterson s Curse) from the Mediterranean region, freed from those organisms which maintain them in balance in their native communities, have posed threats to agriculture. 

Collopy D (2006) Western Australia Department of Agriculture and Food, Media Release of 29 May 2006. DAFWA, South Perth... 

Richard B. Russell Agricultural Research Center, Agricultural Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Athens, GA 30613 2Division of Tropical Crops and Pastures, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Cunningham Laboratory, St. Lucia, Queensland 4067, Australia... 

Waite Agricultural Research Institute Adelaide, Australia... 

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