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Ord River Irrigation Area Strategy 2024-34
No full textThe ORIA Strategy 2024–34 sets a collective 10-year vision, identifying key areas for focus as well as defining key roles and responsibilities to drive the achievement of this vision.
It provides direction for government to continue to work alongside and support industry and the community to achieve positive development outcomes. As such, it has been developed in consultation with key stakeholders across local industry, Traditional Owners and community groups
Driving sustainability with circular packaging
No full textDisrupting Tradition, Empowering Sustainability
Get ready to explore the cutting edge of packaging innovation with Hamoun Aria from C4C Packaging in this dynamic session. Hamoun will guide us through the latest advancements in sustainable packaging solutions, showcasing C4C Packaging\u27s innovative approaches to reducing environmental impact while maintaining product integrity.
Join Hamoun\u27s speech, discover how C4C\u27s innovative approach is redefining packaging, creating a more sustainable future for the beverage industry, and providing Australian businesses with a competitive edge in the global marketplace
WA Best Practice in Packaging
No full textJoin us for an insightful session led by Jacqui Kay, Agricultural Produce Commission Communications Officer, as we explore best practices in packaging within Western Australia.
Jacqui has been working in FMCG for 20 years and has seen the evolution of consumer packaging over the years.
Now is the time for brands to work with strategic partners to find more sustainable packaging solutions. Jacqui will talk through an award winning case study from WA that demonstrates what is being achieved
Malt quality parameters for malting barley
No full textHave you ever wondered how beer is made and what makes barley varieties different from each other in the eyes of the brewer? The barley malting process and main barley malt quality characteristics are briefly described on this page
Agricultural groundcover update January 2024
No full textSummary About 94% of the grainbelt had adequate (more than 50%) vegetative groundcover to prevent wind erosion in January 2024. In the northern half of the grainbelt, a larger-than-average area has 51–60% groundcover, which is expected to decrease to below 50% over the coming months. Just under 6% of the grainbelt (855,000 ha) had less than 50% groundcover, which is inadequate to prevent wind erosion. West Midlands Ag Soil Zone had the highest risk of wind erosion and 14.5% of this farmland had inadequate groundcover. Less than 0.5% of the grainbelt had a high to very high risk of wind erosion because groundcover was less than 30%
The use of the Cartographer (Green Atlas) for determining physiological changes in avocado trees and consequent timing of orchard management toward fruit robustness
No full textAvocado fruit robustness is a poorly defined parameter linked to fruit calcium content that describes how well an avocado fruit stands up to injury due to supply chain handling, supply chain temperature changes, and consumer handling. Early season predictions of future fruit robustness are currently not possible, therefore the evaluation of novel technologies for the prediction and management of fruit robustness has been initiated. Calcium has been shown to be a driver for fruit robustness in avocado, but its management is complicated as it is only available to the fruit for a short time after flowering and is controlled by multiple factors including transpiration, soil, root interactions with the soil, and particularly by the size of and growth of the tree canopy. The Green Atlas platform Cartographer is a fast mobile orchard scanning system that uses cameras and LiDAR to quantitatively measure canopy parameters such as leaf area, canopy density, and tree height. The Cartographer was used to measure ‘Hass’ avocado tree growth over three sites in Western Australia and was effective at identifying statistically relevant changes in tree growth over time for the above canopy parameters. With future calibration, changes in canopy growth of avocado trees, as measured by Cartographer, may be a fast non-destructive method of determining calcium absorption and fruit robustness and be a practical management tool for avocado producers
Western Australia Pastoral Land Tenure - Kimberley Region
No full textA map of the Kimberley region of Western Australia showing the pastoral lease boundaries and names and their tenure. Includes an index of pastoral leases.https://library.dpird.wa.gov.au/gis_maps/1017/thumbnail.jp
Denmark, Shire of - BEN sign map - 1 of 1
No full textBEN Signage Installation Map – Shire of Denmarkhttps://library.dpird.wa.gov.au/gis_bens/1026/thumbnail.jp
West Coast Deep Sea Crustacean Managed Fishery
No full textWest Coast Deep Sea Crustacean Managed Fisheryhttps://library.dpird.wa.gov.au/gis_manf/1037/thumbnail.jp
Microplastic extraction from digestive tracts of large decapods
No full textThe reliable quantification of microplastic contamination in chitinous organisms requires validated methods to remove interfering complex organic and inorganic material. This study trialled KOH, H2O2 and HNO3 digestion methods on the digestive tracts of two large decapods (Panulirus cygnus and Portunus armatus) to validate a protocol that facilitates reliable microplastic extraction. KOH digestion provided the best recovery (\u3e95 %) of all polymers (e.g. polyamide, polyethylene, polyethylene terephthalate, polypropylene, polystyrene and polyvinyl chloride), with the lowest impact to their physical morphology and chemical spectra. While HNO3, and HNO3 + H2O2 treatments were more effective at digesting chitin, they destroyed polyamide, and altered several other polymers. High digestion efficiency did not result in high matrix clarification or high microplastic recovery for large decapods. This study emphasises the importance of validating species-specific microplastic extraction methods, whilst proposing additional post-digestion protocols, such as density separation, for complex samples, that can be applied in future research investigating plastic contamination in large decapods