Plant Production Systems

In this subject, students will explore Australian plant production industries, including pastures, cereal crops, and annual and perennial horticulture. Topics will include appraisal of the plant production enterprises in Australia - their location, scale and their contribution to the national economy, as well as the biological and environmental processes that underpin productivity and sustainability - climate and growing season, weeds and diseases, and water and nutrient availability; Students will be introduced to examples of how landholders manage their resources to balance ecological, environmental and social demands, and the strategies that are employed to produce high quality crop products. The learning outcomes of this subject are to extend the students’ ability to A student who satisfactorily completes this subject should be able to: