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Batlow Apples eyes $6m expansion

Pome fruit Feb. 26, 2021



Batlow Fruit Company is eyeing expansion that could create 47 full-time jobs.

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UTAS team developing new way to stop Asian cherry counterfeiters

Cherries Marketing & export Feb. 25, 2021



Cloud based system helps consumers know they are getting the genuine product.

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Sharing research and technology with the University of Florida

Mangoes Tropical trees Feb. 24, 2021



NT government agreement facilitates research into tropical fruits.

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Researchers find peptide that treats, prevents killer citrus disease

Citrus Disease & weed control Feb. 22, 2021



Treatment causes deadly bacterium to leak and die.

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$15 billion horticulture value in Hort Stats Handbook

General Feb. 20, 2021



Value of horticultural production increased by 4.5%.

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New date varieties to be trialled

Specialty tree crops Feb. 19, 2021



The date industry is under represented in Australia.

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Smitten apples launched

Pome fruit Feb. 18, 2021



2021 is the fourth season for the Smitten variety

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Hong Kong Customs seizes cherries falsely marketed as Tasmanian

Marketing & export Packaging & labelling Feb. 17, 2021



Every single carton had a unique QR code.

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Vietnam approval of new Australian biosecurity facility

Stone Fruit Feb. 17, 2021



Vietnam to receive produce from new Melbourne irradiation facility.

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$13 million to strengthen Australia’s fruit fly research

Fruit Fly Feb. 7, 2021



Six projects approved to address gaps in our understanding of fruit fly.

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Apple harvest underway

Pome fruit Feb. 7, 2021



Difficulties with the recruitment, management and retention of harvest labour

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New artificial pollination technology for Australian almonds

Flowering, thinning & PGRs Feb. 4, 2021



Technology will be tested in almond orchards in Victoria.

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Using sugar from olive pits

Olives Feb. 4, 2021



High quality of sugars extracted from olive pits could be used in several different industrial processes.

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Queen bee shortage

Flowering, thinning & PGRs Feb. 3, 2021



Queen bees are vital to each beehive because it is the only bee capable of laying fertilised eggs.

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Workplaces after COVID: What you need to know

Business solutions & labour Feb. 1, 2021



After COVID office settings will look different and it will not simply be a return to old ways of doing business.

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