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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.
Spraying equipment & application

JD options make market green with envy

In 2024-25, the high value crop (HVC) sector will reach a new record of $17.8 billion in its value of production, positioning it as the third largest agricultural industry in the nation.
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.
Spraying equipment & application

Agriculture set to Prospr under Croplands

Croplands, Nufarm’s emerging solutions spray equipment platform, and Robotics Plus, a New Zealand-based agritech company, have announced they are joining forces to bring Prospr to the Australian and New Zealand horticulture market.
Macadamias

Clean Coastal Catchments Macadamia Research Update

If you're interested in farm sustainability and how to get the best bang for your buck from fertilisers and orchard amendments, join us for the Clean Coastal Catchments (CCC) Macadamia Research Update
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Farmers wanted for regenerative cropping survey

Five hundred crop farmers nationally are wanted for a short online survey – and 75 of those will be selected for a broader, three-year farm monitoring project.
Bees and pollination

Pollinus increases yields

A novel honeybee attractant enhancing the performance of bees as crop pollinators is showing its potential value in nut crops in Australia.
News

Grow, connect and thrive at hort connections

The southern hemisphere’s largest horticulture conference is arriving in Melbourne June 3-5.
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APVMA publishes diazinon, fenitrothion decision

The Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines Authority (APVMA) has published its decisions on the use of diazinon and fenitrothion.
News

Service dog protects the country

Biosecurity service dog Vespa has done more than his fair share helping to keep Australia safe, intercepting 1300 biosecurity risk items across 129 commodities last year – the most of any biosecurity detector dog in the country.
Products and services

Gallagher protects the nation

Electric fencing is a cost-effective and reliable way to control animal movement, manage pasture and achieve strong conservation outcomes.
Products and services

Making senesce out of senescence post-harvest

Kendon Chemicals general manager Chris Story says senescence is actually regarded as an evolutionary acquired process which is critical for plant fitness.
Apples - Pruning

Apple orchard drying up – start pruning

When the going gets dry, producers need to get going on their apple trees according to Agriculture Victoria with thinning/pruning playing a vital role.
Tractors & machinery

GUSS goes electric in orchard industry

JOHN Deere and GUSS Automation have unveiled what they call the world’s first, and only, fully electric autonomous herbicide orchard sprayer.
Pruning

Clean up so you don’t get cleaned out

Coming to the end of harvest, and starting to think about pruning? Have you considered how you and your contractors will disinfect pruning tools?

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Test to measure antibacterial property of honey
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