- About Agriculture
- Farming and Management
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Grains and Other Crops
- Grain Industry Profile
- Crop Production
- Victorian Winter Crop Summary
- Balansa Clover
- Bioethanol in Victoria
- Decimal Growth Scale of Cereals
- Effect of Frost on Cereal Grain Crops
- Establishing Puccinellia
- Estimating Crop Yields; A Brief Guide
- Estimating Crop Yields and Crop Losses
- Growing Barley
- Growing Canola
- Growing Cereal Rye
- Growing Chickpea
- Growing Faba Bean
- Growing Field Pea
- Growing Lentil
- Growing Linseed and Linola
- Growing Lupin
- Growing Oat
- Growing Soybean
- Growing Triticale
- Growing Wheat
- Harvesting Forage Cereals
- Identification of Cereal Seedlings
- Managing Puccinellia
- Puccinellia ciliata Wimmera
- Storing Forage Cereals
- Stubble Burning
- Tall Wheat Grass in Saline Soils
- When to Cut Forage Cereals
- Victorian Area and Harvest Estimates
- Grain and Crop Health
- Pastures
- Grains Science in Action
- High Rainfall Cropping
- Farmer's Stories
- Grains Calculators
- Crop Diseases Application for Smartphones
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- Beef and Sheep
- Other Animals and Livestock
- Pests, Diseases and Weeds
- Innovation and Research
- Environment and Community
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Growing Field Pea
The field pea variety Kaspa continues to be the predominant variety grown across cropping regions of south east and Western Australia. Kaspa is broadly adapted, has high yield potential and is suitable for crop topping to control ryegrass. Other varieties better suited to shorter growing seasons (e.g. Sturt) are available, but careful consideration should be given to differences in disease and crop management and ability to market and deliver other grain types.
All pea grain types are equally suitable for stockfeed purposes, but are segregated for marketing to human consumption markets. Currently over 95 per cent of Australian production is from dun types of which approximately 70 per cent is Kaspa type and 25 per cent is Australian dun type (i.e. mostly Parafield). Kaspa is preferred across most regions, particularly for its ease of harvest and pod shatter resistance. Parafield remains an alternative option to Kaspa in the lower rainfall regions and where bacterial blight is a higher risk in parts of the Wimmera. All other varieties account for less than 5 per cent of Australian production either due to restricted regional adaptation or marketing limitations or lack of delivery points for white and blue peas.
