Export Cauliflower Improvement
The project was undertaken to improve the quality, yield and scheduling of cauliflower for export from the Manjimup/Pemberton district by identifying the causes of yield loss and recommending management changes, changing varieties grown where appropriate, providing better guidelines for plant nutrition backed up by targeted plant tissue testing, and collecting reliable harvest maturity data from commericial crops and using it to develop a rudimentary harvest predictor for established varieties employing mathematical fits to the data.