Land Capability - Grazing (DPIRD-032)
Published by Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development
Description
Land capability for grazing in the south west of Western Australia based on analysis and interpretation of the best available soil-landscape mapping dataset (DPIRD-027). This assessment covers the grazing of sheep and cattle on broadscale dryland (i.e. nonirrigated) pastures in agricultural areas (receiving an average annual rainfall more than 350 mm). Land capability refers to the ability of land to support a type of land use without causing damage. See DAFWA Resource Management Technical Report 298 for a description of the qualities assessed and the methodology involved. Capability ratings do not take into account factors such as the availability and quality of water supplies for irrigation or climatic risks such as frost or heat stress. Such factors need to be considered as a separate layer of information.
Resources
NRInfo map portal
Resource Management Technical Report 298
Legends for soil landscape land quality and land capability data sets
Metadata statement
GeoJSON
Geopackage
File Geodatabase
Shapefile
ArcGIS Server Map Service
Web Mapping Service
Web Feature Service
Metadata
- Licence
- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
- Last Updated
- 10 Mar 2026
- Created
- 7 Dec 2016
- Source Portal
- Wa
Dublin Core Metadata
- Publisher
- Department of Primary Industries and Regional Development
- Creator
- DPIRD Geographic Information Services
- Type
- Dataset
- Language
- en
- Rights
- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
- Spatial Coverage
- Western Australia, Australia
- Temporal Coverage
- 7 Dec 2016 – 10 Mar 2026
- Related Resources
- https://www.dpird.wa.gov.au/environment-and-sustainability/nrinfo-for-western-australia/, http://researchlibrary.agric.wa.gov.au/rmtr/280/, https://catalogue.data.wa.gov.au/dataset/69f2710c-8e78-4d08-aa28-3b774f5d26b8/resource/e5ecc4ee-4094-41b5-8ed2-25b4298793f4/download/legends-for-soil-landscape-land-quality-and-land-capability-data-sets.pdf, https://catalogue.data.wa.gov.au/dataset/69f2710c-8e78-4d08-aa28-3b774f5d26b8/resource/e49a98e0-0a9c-45bd-aed1-c0a7a9d0b8b9/download/metadata-dafwa-land-capability.docx, https://data-downloads.slip.wa.gov.au/DPIRD-032/GeoJSON
- Subjects
- agriculture, grazing, land capability, land use, soil, soil mapping