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Quest for custard apple new varieties a long and difficult road, paved with misfires and mutants

Specialty tree crops Tropical trees July 31, 2019



A 25-year quest to produce delicious, commercially successful, new varieties of custard apples is inching closer to completion. But the road has been long and paved with mutants.

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Major steps forward for Australian jujube industry

Specialty tree crops May 10, 2019



The formalisation of the Australian jujube industry has taken another major step, with the launch of the South Australian Jujube Growers Association Inc.

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Great prices for the start of Australian pomegranate season

Specialty tree crops May 9, 2019



Exceptional start to Australia's pomegranate season for growers, with large fruit providing some bumper prices given the warmer spring and summer.

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Small, sweet and high in Vitamin C — Australian growers are backing the jujube

Specialty tree crops April 17, 2019



With an increasing international population and a big focus on healthy eating, some Australian horticulturalists are pushing to expand and establish plantings of a fruit barely known to most of the country — the jujube.

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Opportunities for Australian pomegranates

Specialty tree crops March 24, 2019



Australia’s pomegranate industry could rival Peru by 2020.

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Tree-crop agriculture gains ground in the Mid West

Specialty tree crops May 21, 2018



For Greenough landowner George Ainsley, on-farm diversification looks far different to the standard livestock-cropping mix. Tree crop agriculture has been his passion for more than 25 years, first with hardwood trees on a small block in Albany and later a mix of plantings on his 70ha Mid West landholding.

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Vegetable or tree?

Specialty tree crops March 7, 2018



FANCY a green vegetable that can be picked nearly year-round, requires minimal bending, doesn’t need to be replanted, and is super healthy?

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