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Avocado - Featured Crop

Translating tissue culture in avocado cultivars

A visit to Chile to demonstrate clonal propagation protocols is just the start of a growing agricultural pipeline for The University of Queensland’s world-leading tissue culture team.

Forecast chemical review timeframes extended

Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines Authority (APVMA) has revised the expected publication dates for the proposed regulatory decisions on fipronil, neonicotinoids, and anticoagulant rodenticides.

Spraying equipment & application

Innovative spray solutions for macadamias

Among the various machines available, the GreenTech 6000L Spray System stood out for its innovative design, robust build quality, operational efficiency, and ability to deliver fungicides, pesticides, and foliar nutrition to tall and mid-sized macadamia trees.

Tree crop insights

Post-harvest nutrition crucial for next season success

While many growers stop applying nutrients after harvest, targeted post-harvest foliar treatments can significantly enhance fruit quality, tree resilience, and overall productivity in the next cycle.

Spraying equipment & application

Take care with adjuvants when fruit thinning

Fruit growers and their advisers are reminded to take the utmost care and choose the right adjuvant before applying chemical thinners and plant growth regulators (PGRs) in their pome and stone fruit orchards this season.

Tree crop insights

FrostBoss secures growers with large scale innovation

As climate variability continues to challenge growers worldwide, FrostBoss remains at the forefront of frost protection solutions.

Products and services

Hitman now an organic insecticide and fungicide

VICCHEM has announced the relaunch of Hitman Organic Insecticide &Fungicide – now a dual-purpose, organically approved contact insecticide and wetting agent which offers effective control of soft-bodied insects and mites, with no withholding period (WHP) for most applications and no residue concerns.

Spraying equipment & application

Innovation and Interlink go hand in hand

At Interlink Sprayers, innovation is more than a buzzword –director and design engineer Matthew McWilliams says it’s the foundation of everything we do.

Products and services

Long-acting herbicide shows its strength for vine and tree crops

A new, longer-acting pre-emergent grass and broadleaf weed herbicide for use in vine and tree crops already has demonstrated its strong effectiveness for growers in trials, including for control of weeds along property fence lines.

Citrus - Featured Crop

Citrus exporter banks on Samurai for premium pack-out

For leading Australian citrus grower and exporter Darren Minter of Victoria’s Minter Magic, several months of complete pest control from systemic insecticide Samurai ensures his export pack-out consistently meets China’s strict first-grade protocol.

Products and services

A ‘RAFT’ of benefits from Reefer Air Flow Technologies

It sounds so fundamentally simple, but Reefer Air Flow Technologies'(RAFT) new RAFT Kit significantly improves airflow in refrigerated containers by shifting direction from vertical to horizontal.

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