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Blockchain and Agriculture: Singapore-Based Firm Traces Apples via Blockchain
A Singapore-based company has decided to employ blockchain technology for tracking apple shipments. If successful, the project will include many different kinds of fruits and vegetables and will represent a new prominent use case for this technology.
Read full storyModi excels at home and abroad
The Modi apple remains a pivotal brand for the Freshmax Australia's Apple and Pear Category this year having successfully grown its ranging programs exponentially in both domestic and overseas markets.
Read full storyMontague export facility plans
Fruit company, Montague, is to build a new $26 million packing and export distribution centre in Melbourne’s Narre Warren North, creating 25 jobs.
Read full storyHorticulture’s quiet achiever
Polyram DF, the Group M3 fungicide from BASF, is one of horticulture’s great crop protection all-rounders. It is registered to control over twenty diseases across a wide variety of crops, including pome and stone fruit, mangoes, bananas, grapes and most commercially produced vegetables.
Read full storyApple disease control critical
As a major disease threat in his orchards, Victorian apple producer Brad Fankhauser knows how critical it is he carefully manages black spot. Mr Fankhauser, who farms near Drouin in Gippsland, says even in a relatively dry season black spot can be a threat, however the introduction of Luna Sensation fungicide to his program in the 2015/16 season proved to be a gamechanger.
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Pink Lady and Bravo apples among the healthiest
Eating apples is good for you, ongoing research carried out by The University of Western Australia (UWA) and Edith Cowan University (ECU) has reaffirmed.
Read full storyBrevis – new option for apple thinning
A new secondary fruit thinner with a unique mode of action is tipped to revolutionise the way apples are thinned.
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