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Campaign targets labour hire

Labour hire workers in the horticulture industry are the target of a significant new communication campaign by the Labour Hire Authority (LHA).
Tree crop insights

How narrow can we go?

A new Hort Innovation Frontiers project is about to explore planting stone and pome fruit trees in 2m rows with canopies as narrow as a pair of secateurs.
Citrus - Know your pest

Citrus flavoured pests

Congratulations! If you’ve chosen to grow a citrus crop, you’ve picked a tree crop with probably the most pests wanting to share in the fun.
Tree crop insights

Unleashing Pomegranate production management guide

It might already be a $10.4 million industry, with 275,000 mature trees, but the true potential of pomegranates remains largely untapped.
Tree crop insights

Blueberry water use in spotlight

The Clean Coastal Catchments (CCC) research project is working on a blueberry crop water use model, looking closely at how much water blueberry plants take up under different conditions.
Bees and pollination

Biological control for fruit fly

Queensland fruit fly (Qfly) is one of Australia’s most damaging horticultural pests.
Bees and pollination

Varroa mite in spotlight

Pairing the current alcohol and soapy water washes, sugar shakes and sticky strips with laser beams, cameras, vibration detection and DNA testing, are just some of the options looked at to help beekeepers monitor their hives for Varroa Mite.
Bees and pollination

Bee a farming success

A next-generation upgrade of the world-leading BeeConnected app has been launched at Parliament House by Regional Development Minister Kristy McBain at Parliament House.
Olives

Wild about olives

Andrew and Megan Aitken knew they were onto something special when they drove out of a dense peppermint forest and first laid eyes on Wild Olive farm – now their home and their passion.
Almonds - News

Industry finds 2023 a tough year to crack

Almond growers have experienced one of their most challenging years in recent history.
Olives

Olives – they grow on you

A pre-retirement plan for Imre and Sue Menschelyi turned out to be a little more than they bargained for when the family purchased an old dairy farm on 40ha at Karridale in WA.
Almonds

APVMA releases proposed chlorpyrifos decision

The Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines Authority (APVMA) has released its proposed regulatory decision on the reconsideration of chlorpyrifos, an insecticide used for the control of pests in various agricultural, horticultural, commercial, and veterinary situations.
Almonds - News

Almond sales on trend

Australian almond sales remain on pace to clear processor warehouses by season’s end after another significant sales month in September.
Almonds

ACE orchard officially opens

More than 200 stakeholders recently attended the official handover of the Australian almond industry’s centre of excellence experimental orchard at Loxton North in South Australia’s Riverland.
News

AOA fights levy

The federal government's proposed additional 10 per cent biosecurity charge on agricultural levy-paying producers, by July 1 next year has been strongly opposed by the horticultural (and many other agricultural) industries.

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Citrus yields hit big numbers
CropLife releases new resistance management strategies
ANFIC cracks down
Featured Crops - Mangoes
Featured Crops - Nuts
Insights - Technology in orchards
Insights - Establishment & maintenance
Insights - Flowering, thinning & PGRs
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