Field crops
A range of grain, legume and other field crops can be grown in the Northern Territory.
This section contains information on growing these crops.
You can find more information by searching the online publications library.
Sowing, planting, management and crop production
- What should my no-till planter look like PDF (31.2 KB)
- Striking the balance: sustainable farming and grazing systems for the semi-arid tropics of the NT PDF (5.0 MB)
- Seeds - A guide for sampling seeds DOCX (378.5 KB)
- Seed storage in the NT tropics PDF (83.0 KB)
- Seed - tests for seed PDF (65.9 KB)
- Seed - certified seed PDF (215.8 KB)
- Samples - collecting field crop samples for analysis PDF (41.4 KB)
- Cropland preparation PDF (67.1 KB)
- Machinery calibration: boom-sprays, seeders and fertiliser applicators PDF (121.2 KB)
Grain crops
Maize
- Maize - development and research in the NT PDF (663.7 KB)
- Maize - irrigated maize production in the Top End of the NT PDF (1.8 MB)
- Maize research 1954-1986: review PDF (1.4 MB)
Rice
- Rice - an assessment of the markets for rice in the NT PDF (382.5 KB)
- Rice growing - rainfall, ponding and flood irrigation - importance to rice growing in the Adelaide River area PDF (1019.0 KB)
- Rice research and demonstration program for the NT PDF (414.5 KB)
- Rice stemborer: the biology and ecology of the white rice stemborer in Northern Australia PDF (1.2 MB)
Sorghum
Legume crops
Growing information
- Peanuts in the home garden PDF (75.2 KB)
- Peanuts - weed control PDF (170.8 KB)
- Peanuts - common diseases in the Top End PDF (93.6 KB)
- Peanut growing in the NT PDF (173.5 KB)
- Mungbeans PDF (39.5 KB)
Research information
- Soybean research: a review of soybean research in the NT 1970-80 PDF (510.6 KB)
- Soybean research in the NT 1980-85 PDF (3.6 MB)
- Soybean production recommendations for the NT PDF (51.6 KB)
- Cowpea research in the NT 1977-1981 PDF (1.9 MB)
- Soybean research: a review of soybean research in the NT 1970-80 PDF (510.6 KB)
- Soybeans in tropical Australia - some seed quality aspects PDF (747.5 KB)
- Fungicidal influence on peanut seed germination PDF (135.8 KB)
- Mungbeans- growing mungbeans getting the quality right PDF (39.5 KB)
Other crops
Growing information
Sesame recommendations for the NT PDF (54.5 KB)
Research information
Sesame
- Sesame recommendations for the NT PDF (54.5 KB)
- Sesame 2005 - a strategic plan for the Australian sesame industry 1995-2005 PDF (845.6 KB)
- Sesame cultivars: development of sesame for Northern Australia PDF (610.4 KB)
- Sesame research report 1990-91 Wet Season Katherine 1992 PDF (1.3 MB)
- Sesame research report 1991-92 Wet Season Katherine 1993 PDF (884.3 KB)
- Sesame research report 1992-93 Wet Season Katherine 1994 PDF (1.2 MB)
- Sesame research report 1993-94 Wet Season Katherine 1995 PDF (1.8 MB)
- Sesame research report 1994-95 Wet Season Katherine 1996 PDF (1.1 MB)
- Sesame research report 1995-96 West Season Katherine 1996 PDF (379.1 KB)
- Sesame research report 1996-97 Wet Season Katherine 1999 PDF (958.4 KB)
- Sesame research report Katherine 1988-89 Wet Season 1991 PDF (1.3 MB)
Others
Cotton - the potential weediness of transgenic cotton in Northern Australia PDF (2.1 MB)
Sesame, pigeon-pea, guar, alternative crops report -1986-87 Wet Season Katherine PDF (2.5 MB)
Cropping general
Douglas-Daly region
- Crops for the Douglas-Daly region PDF (3.2 MB)
- Crop nutrition research for Douglas-Daly 1988 PDF (1.2 MB)
- Agricultural research Douglas-Daly research farm PDF (1.9 MB)
- Gross margins for Douglas-Daly 1990 PDF (690.2 KB)
- Gross margin budgets for field crops in the Douglas-Daly region 1991-92 PDF (2.5 MB)
- Gross margin budgets for field crops in the Douglas-Daly region 1992-93 PDF (2.5 MB)
- Crop gross margin budgets for the Douglas-Daly region 1993-94 PDF (2.5 MB)
Katherine-Daly region
- Gross margin budgets for the Katherine-Daly region 1995-96 PDF (2.7 MB)
- Gross margin budgets for the Katherine-Daly region 1997-98 PDF (2.8 MB)
- Crop gross margin budgets for the Katherine-Daly region 1999-2000 PDF (85.3 KB)
Katherine region
- Gross margin budgets for field crops in the Katherine region September 1990 PDF (2.9 MB)
- Gross margin budgets for field crops in the Katherine region 1991-92 PDF (2.5 MB)
- Gross margin budgets for field crops in the Katherine region 1992-93 PDF (2.5 MB)
- Gross margin budgets for field crops in the Katherine region 1993-94 PDF (1.5 MB)
Other
- Report on a study tour of the irrigated crop management service Loxton, South Australia PDF (1.5 MB)
- Irrigation - the method for estimating crop irrigation volumes for the Tindall limestone aquifer, Katherine water allocation plan PDF (240.1 KB)
- Soil carbon and pH - effects of agricultural management on soil carbon and pH in the Douglas Daly region of the Northern Territory PDF (698.8 KB)
- Fertilisers and agricultural chemicals PDF (16.2 KB)
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