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TRANSTAK deliveries on track
TRANSTAK Engineering and Equipment has been manufacturing and supplying fruit growers with equipment for around 25 years.
Know your pest
Queensland’s gift to fruit growers
Other states and territories would love to return to sender, but the QFF doesn’t cooperate.
The Queensland Fruit Fly is so well known, the abbreviation is widely recognised as representing a threat to the wealth of growers of most fruits almost anywhere (in reality it is a native of central coastal Queensland, but very geographically ambitious).
News
IFPA broadens education programs
The International Fresh Produce Association Australia-New Zealand (IFPA ANZ) has refined and extended its produce-specific curriculum for members in 2025 in response to industry demand to upskill the workforce.
Pome fruit
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Featured Crop
A very happy place
Anthony Rullo had little experience in producing his own cherries (despite growing up surrounded by a cherry orchard) until three years ago when he embraced the opportunity to plant his own trees and simultaneously trial some cutting-edge technology.
Pome fruit
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Featured Crop
Netting, rain cover and solar innovations to protect orchard crops
Protecting orchard crops from hail, rain and excessive sunlight is becoming increasingly important to avoid fruit damage.
Hail and extreme heat events appear to be more common as our climate is changing and rain spoilage is an ongoing issue in stone fruit crops, particularly cherry.
Pome fruit
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Featured Crop
Packaging (MAP) for stone fruit export
By John Lopresti and Glenn Hale - horticultural consultants Fruitful Insights
Australian stone fruit is exported by both air and sea freight typically in plastic film liners ranging from perforated high humidity (HH) bags to modified atmosphere packaging (MAP).
Pome fruit
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Featured Crop
Nutrient management for pome fruit
Australian Pear & Apple Limited says the key to a targeted approach to nutrient management is understanding your soil, leaf composition and nutrient levels in fruit pre-harvest.
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Horticultural career beckons for third generation farmer
Third generation Robinvale local, Will Jury, has taken up a new national role with 7 Worlds Ag.
Almonds
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Insect & mite control
Almond growers urged to get cracking on pest threat
Almond growers in the Sunraysia, Riverland and Riverina districts are urged to prepare now to act quickly to control key pests during the critical hull split period between December and January.
News
Free hard water tests
VICCHEM is offering free hard water tests to farmers to help optimise herbicide performance.
News
Summerfruit Management
Modern summerfruit orchard production systems are geared to improve yield and packout performance via optimal crop load and uniformity in tree canopy architecture for high-quality fruit and efficient light interception and distribution.
News
Grochem becomes 7 worlds Ag
Grochem Australia has become 7 Worlds Ag under a fresh rebrand to build on its reputation for innovation in technology and its commitment to the Australian horticulture industry.
Harvesting Equipment
John Deere’s 6M gets major upgrade
ONE of the most popular tractors in John Deere’s line-up, the legendary 6M, has been given a major update for MY2025 with more speed and power across a 13-model range which, for the first time, includes four models above 200hp and a 50km/h transmission.
Disease & weed control
Ensure you're across EU changes
Upcoming changes to the maximum residue limit (MRL) in the European Union (EU) for fenoxycarb, the active in one of the pome fruit industry’s valued IPM insecticides, Insegar, should prompt discussion between agronomists and those growers targeting export markets and export agents.
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