Fruit Fly
There’s no rest against fruit fly pest
It’s a seasonal pest, but the fight against fruit fly is a year-round battle that never ends.
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Insect & mite control
Vayego all the go for South West WA orchards with weevils
Limited chemical control options and high reliance on the Group 22a insecticide, indoxacarb, for control of weevils in pome and stone fruit orchards throughout South West WA, has always meant a new option was going to be enthusiastically welcomed.
Disease & weed control
Sterile insect technology controls codling moth
A pilot sterile insect release program for controlling codling moths is being evaluated in three Tasmanian apple orchards.
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Tree crop insights
Beneficial bacteria activate avocado enterprise in WA
Health is the key to the future for WA avocado grower Nigel Love, who says it is a chain reaction starting with healthy roots.
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Stone Fruit
Thinning strategies for European pears
Many European pear cultivars crop heavily and require thinning to ensure regular yields and optimise fruit quality. However, compared with apple, there is limited information available on how to best manage crop loads, particularly the newer cultivars.
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Stone Fruit
Bringing home the Bacon at Barham Avocados
When it comes to avocado trees, Tim and Katrina Myers have been blazing a trail along the Murray at Barham, NSW, through droughts, floods, pandemics, global financial crises, good crops and, well, some not so good.
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Yara restructures frontline sales agronomy team
Nitrogen fertiliser manufacturer Yara Australia has given its agronomy team a 2023 overhaul and relaunched its customer-facing sales strategy as three semi-autonomous commercial zones.
News
APVMA shuts down dimethoate for some fruits
The Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines Authority (APVMA) has suspended, effective immediately, the registration and labels of chemical products containing dimethoate used as a post-harvest dip for fruit with inedible peel.
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Data coup as almond industry goes spatial
For the first time spatial mapping has been used to identify every almond orchard in Australia.
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Products and services
SEGURIS Flexi – a flexible option for almonds
Century Orchards grows 700ha of almonds at Loxton in South Australia’s Riverland, with about half their trees Nonpareil, with the balance mostly a mix of Carmel, Peerless, Price and Monterey.
Pome fruit
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Stone Fruit
Minimal impact of phytosanitary irradiation
Global trade enables the movement of seasonally fresh produce between countries.
Insect & mite control
Program beating fruit spotting bugs
Fruit spotting bug has cost a Queensland macadamia and avocado enterprise millions of dollars during the past 16 years, however broader use of insecticides and other techniques is helping to win the very expensive battle against the pest.
Fertilisers & nutrition
Stomatal health is crucial to tree health
Water, like all plants is vital for tree health and yet only a small fraction of water taken up by the roots is used for metabolism, plant growth, and ultimately yield.
News
ABCgrower changes life on the farm
ABCgrower is revolutionising life on farm for busy horticulturists. Offering an alternative away from pen and paper, ABCgrower is a flexible, digital on-farm labour and inventory management software tool.
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Tree crop people
Farewell from the editor
Australian Tree Crop editor, David Petrikas, is taking a step back.
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