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Grant to strengthen avo industry

Avocados Australia has been awarded a $200,000 grant over two years through the ASEAN-Australia Centre’s 2024–25 Grants Program.
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.
Avocado - Specialty tree crops

If big is better, try a JALA

Big is proving to be a big part of being better in the avocado business – just ask Fleming’s Nurseries in far north Queensland, which was recently awarded the NGIQ Best New Product for its JALA giant avocado at the Green Expo held on the Gold Coast.
Avocado - Featured Crop

Size and shape key to premium avocado prices

A plant growth regulator (PGR) which targets increased fruit size and shape is helping Australian avocado producers yield high returns from their orchards in increasingly challenging farming times.
Avocado - Featured Crop

Serving up an avocado enterprise

WHAT do you get when you cross avocados and Andrew Crossman? Crossie’s Cados. Established in 2005 at Torrumbarry in Victoria’s north, Andrew Crossman has built a business which is continuing to grow season after season.
Avocado - Featured Crop

Singing the praises of Serenade

The success of Nigel Love’s avocado farm starts with healthy roots which has led to healthier trees and improved yields.
Avocado - Tree crop insights

Beneficial bacteria activate avocado enterprise in WA

Health is the key to the future for WA avocado grower Nigel Love, who says it is a chain reaction starting with healthy roots.
Avocado - Pome fruit - Stone Fruit

Bringing home the Bacon at Barham Avocados

When it comes to avocado trees, Tim and Katrina Myers have been blazing a trail along the Murray at Barham, NSW, through droughts, floods, pandemics, global financial crises, good crops and, well, some not so good.
Avocado - News

Avo Connections: avocado Industry comes together

On Monday 5 June over 150 industry representatives came together to hear the latest avocado developments related to the domestic market, export markets, food service and international marketing of Australian avocados.
Avocado

Smart fertiliser boosts yield potential

Lono, a specialised nitrogen fertiliser that is efficient and environmentally stable is gaining ground in the Australian tree crop sector as growers seek more sustainable options to improve marketable yields.
Avocado

Biostimulants boost tropical tree crops

The role of biostimulants in providing nutrition to tropical crops is increasing each season in Queensland thanks to the ever-evolving biostimulant fertiliser range by De Sangosse Australia, under the guidance of regional manager Ben Itzstein.
Avocado

Researchers beat avocado production bottleneck

University of Queensland (UQ) scientists are revolutionising the way avocados are grown in Australia by perfecting the technique of successfully propagating trees using plant stem cell technology.
Avocado

How avocado growers can lift capacity and quality

Consumers around the world have developed a taste for avocados that growers in Australia cannot plant the trees quickly enough. The fruit has been nicknamed ‘green gold’, but gold rushes don’t last forever.
Almonds - Avocado - Cherries - Pome fruit - Stone Fruit - Flowering, thinning & PGRs

Bee Klipp for improved hive performance

Bee Klipp lures bees into and through flowering crops - improving bee activity to achieve better pollination.
Avocado

Research to help avocado industry flourish

A range of research results were recently presented to avocado growers in Western Australia.

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ANFIC cracks down
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Featured Crops - Nuts
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