Year 9 HASS – Food production wheat – YourLibrary@MLC

Year 9 HASS
Wheat

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This page has been created to support Year 9 HASS students with their task on Food Production in Australia.

Some note making sheets with focus questions to direct your research.

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General Information

Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development. (2019). Snapshot of Western Australia’s grain. https://www.agric.wa.gov.au/barley/snapshot-western-australias-grain-exports

Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development. (2019). Western Australia wheat industry. https://www.agric.wa.gov.au/grains-research-development/western-australian-wheat-industry

Major problems facing food production

CLIMATE CHANGE

Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development. (2019). How wheat yields are influenced by climate change. https://www.agric.wa.gov.au/climate-change/how-wheat-yields-are-influenced-climate-change

Hochman, Z., Gobbett, D.L., & Horan, H. (2017, January 25). Changing climate has stalled Australian wheat yields: study. https://theconversation.com/changing-climate-has-stalled-australian-wheat-yields-study-71411

National Agriculture and Climate Change Action Plan. (2008). Wheat and sheep production in a changing climate: Western Australia. https://www.mla.com.au/globalassets/mla-corporate/blocks/research-and-development/wa-climate-change-and-commodities.pdf

Wright, I. (2013). Australia’s farming future: can our wheat keep feeding the world? https://theconversation.com/australias-farming-future-can-our-wheat-keep-feeding-the-world-14678

DEMAND

Locke, S. (2017, January 4). Organic grain demand growing rapidly as supply falls short of export needs. ABC News. https://www.abc.net.au/news/rural/2017-01-04/organic-grain-traders-urge-conventional-grain-growers-to-switch/8161064

DROUGHT

Jasper, C., & Sullivan, K. (2019, June 18). Drought eats into Australia’s agri-accounts as we import grain, deal with 25 year low cattle herds and spiralling water costs. ABC News. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-06-18/abares-commodity-outlook-drought-drags-down-exports/11219206

FERTILISERS

Canadell, P., Tian, H., Patra, P., & Thompson, R. (2019). Nitrogen fertilisers are incredibly efficient, but they make climate change a lot worse. https://theconversation.com/nitrogen-fertilisers-are-incredibly-efficient-but-they-make-climate-change-a-lot-worse-127103

LAND DEGRADATION – SALINITY

Coming soon.

Sustainable solutions

CLIMATE CHANGE

Blutcher, A. (2015, May 18). Tasmanian researchers trial optical sensor boom spray to reduce nitrogen use on dairy farms. ABC News. https://www.abc.net.au/news/rural/2015-05-18/rural-dairy-optical-sensors-boom-sprayer-cuts-greenhouse-gas/6478404

DROUGHT

Koreis, D. (2019). Overcoming the difficulty of breeding drought tolerant wheat. https://ecos.csiro.au/breeding-drought-tolerant-wheat/

NSW Department of Education. (2015, April 13). Breeding drought and heat tolerant wheat [Video file]. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNYfQdU-1kE

NSW Department of Education. (2015, April 13). Researching drought tolerance [Video file]. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jj6bfazalA

Although technical, this video mentions the traits they are looking for in wheat varieties to see which will be the most effective against drought.

FERTILISERS – NITROGEN

Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development. (2019). Reducing nitrous oxide emissions from agricultural soils. https://www.agric.wa.gov.au/climate-change/reducing-nitrous-oxide-emissions-agricultural-soils

GENETIC MODIFICATION

CSIRO. (2019). Machine-learning for crop breeding. https://www.csiro.au/en/Research/AF/Areas/Crops/Grains/Machine-learning?ref=/CSIRO/Website/Research/Drought-resilience/Farm-resilience/Machine-learning-for-crop-breeding

Office of the Gene Technology Regulator. (2019). Genetically modified (GM) wheat trials. https://www.ogtr.gov.au/resources/publications/genetically-modified-gm-wheat-trials

References

DPIRD. (2020). Successful wheat crop [Image]. Retrieved from https://www.agric.wa.gov.au/wheat/essentials-successful-wheat-crop

Last updated 17 March 2020