New sub-clover variety to combat red mite

By Bobbie Hinkley
Updated March 10 2016 - 1:20pm, first published September 3 2011 - 4:00am
Agriculture and Food Minister Terry Redman (left), with DAFWA senior research officer Phillip Nichols launch the all new subterranean pasture variety, Narrikup.
Agriculture and Food Minister Terry Redman (left), with DAFWA senior research officer Phillip Nichols launch the all new subterranean pasture variety, Narrikup.

THE release of the new subterranean pasture variety, Narrikup, at the Dowerin GWN7 Machinery Field Days last week was too little too late for many pasture growers in the Esperance region whose farms' stock carrying capacity has fallen by up to one-third.

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