In this section:
Products & Services
A handy index to popular information resources and diagnostic services for food and agriculture businesses:
Crop performance
Crop Harvest Reports
Performance results for cereal and pulse varieties across South Australia 2010, 2009.
Sowing guides
Sowing guides for canola, cereal crops, pulse and legume crops.
Cereal disease guides
Seed treatment and variety disease guides. For more choices refer below to options under plant and soil health guide.
Food Innovation
Food innovation value-chain services
Details of technical support to aid product development, market access, value-adding, sensory evaluation, packaging innovation, shelf-life and cool chain management.
Citrus Packer newsletter
Newsletter provides indepth articles on developments in post-harvest citrus.
Insects and pests
Insect diagnostic services
How to access insect identification and advisory services.
PestFacts newsletter
Free electronic newsletter to keep growers informed about invertebrate pest-related issues and solutions as they emerge during the growing season - supported by the National Invetebrate pest Initiative.
Livestock resources
Pig services
Summary of research and consultancy services supporting the pig industry.
(PIRSA) Animal Ethics Committee
Animal ethics approval processes.
Plant and soil health
Blackspot - sowing guide to reduce infection in field peas (external link to WA Dept of Agriculture and Food)
SA sowing guide for field peas 2010 to minimise blackspot disease and optimise yield potential. (Click on the Blackspot field guide for SA).
Seed and plant sample disease testing
Details of disease tests carried out on seed and plant samples, mostly broadacre crops and pasture.
Fungal disease, fungicide evaluation and diagnostics
Information on controlling fungal diseases in cereals including variety disease guides and seed treatments.
Publications and guides to cereal diseases
References to cereal variety disease guides, cereal seed treatment fact sheets and books.
Plant quarantine
Details of quarantine-related services available from the Waite precinct.
PredictaB (Root Disease Testing Service)
Details of soilborne pathogens identified by the PreDicta B soil testing service, and how to lodge tests.
Pulse foliar disease guide
Information on foliar and seed treatments for pulses compiled by Pulse Australia and SARDI 2010 edition
Seed testing and sampling
Outlines the principles to preventing seed-borne diseases and recommendations for seed testing.
Spraying handbook
New distance-based calibration spray book by Geoff Furness.
Guide to sampling nematodes
Sampling guide for nematodes in horticultural crops and sample form.
Sustainable agriculture
Climate workshops
Updates on climate application workshops.
Soil water extractor
Description of tools for monitoring and managing salinity.
