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Macadamia nuts double in price as growers struggle to keep up with demand

Macadamias March 11, 2019



If you're a fan of snacking on Australia's only commercially grown native nut — the macadamia — you may have noticed prices rising on supermarket shelves. The Australian Macadamia Society said the price consumers were paying for the nut had doubled in the last 10 years, from $25 per kilogram to about $50 per kilogram.

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Tailoring options for seed weevil control

Macadamias Insect & mite control March 4, 2019



With macadamia seed weevil Kushchelorhynchus macadamiae (formerly Sigastus weevil) causing devastating crop losses, incorporating indoxacarb into IMP programs is going a long way to helping Northern Rivers macadamia growers.

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Amateur naturalist finds new population of endangered wild macadamias

Macadamias Nuts Feb. 21, 2019



Thirty-seven new trees of the endangered macadamia jansenii species have been found in Bulburin National Park, south of Rockhampton.

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Why is Mistletoe killing our Macadamia trees?

Macadamias Dec. 26, 2018



Mistletoe, has become famous in the Australian macadamia industry but for all the wrong reasons.

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Fontelis registered for husk spot in macadamia

Macadamias Disease & weed control Dec. 17, 2018



Husk spot is a devastating fungal disease. Estimated to cost the macadamia industry up to $10 million per season, it causes the crop to prematurely drop to the ground. For many decades, the only option growers had to fend off the disease was to use broad-spectrum benzimidazole fungicides, such as carbendazim.

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