Bio-fertilisers better N-response in tree crops

Crop advisors have always paid a lot of attention to the health and vigour of tree canopies, but more progressive advisors are also paying plenty of attention to the roots of their crops.

Eurosolids Triathlon for better iron efficiency

Eurosolids is a Dutch producer of specialty fertiliser solutions for fertigation and foliar application distributes its products in more than 100 countries. To do that, it has subsidiaries all over the world. In all markets it has local agronomic know-how to understand the local situations.

Collecting accurate weather data on-farm

With the development of technology to remotely monitor a range of factors such as nutrients, soil moisture and weather status, a growing number of farmers are adding this capability to their orchard management.

Yara focus on premium nitrate-based fertilisers

Yara Crop Nutrition has announced it will focus on marketing its range of premium nitrate-based fertilisers in Australia following the divestment of its agricultural liquid fertilisers business in August.

IPM, insects and mites… the short version

Plants grow. Insects see them as desirable food. Then they become pests.

New macadamia varieties to lower production costs

Macadamia growers could significantly reduce their labour costs in the future through new tree varieties that are shorter and enter production earlier.

Fruit tree removal helps rid fruit fly in GMV

The removal of fruit fly habitat in Victoria’s Goulburn Murray Valley region has impacted on fruit fly activity by disrupting potential habit.

Inviting biodiversity benefits into tree crops

In the hills behind Byron Bay at Newrybar, the coffee pioneering Zentvelds family, are in their third year of planting cover crops in select sites across the coffee farm.

Autumn fruit flies and warm spring: high risk

Bronwyn Koll expects another high-pressure fruit fly season (2022–2023) given several factors.

Fruit fly control major focus in recent years

Controlling fruit fly has become a major focus on the 500 hectares of citrus orchards of the Nutrano Produce Group in the Sunraysia region at Mildura.

CGA ‘AusCherrySure’ MRL app released

Cherry growers who export, must comply with a different set of maximum residue levels (MRLs) for each country.

New sensor for storage disorders in stone fruit

Agriculture Victoria is collaborating with a Melbourne-based agtech company to assess the accuracy and utility of a prototype fluorescence sensor to detect and predict storage disorders in stone fruit.

Stroby WG fungicide now available from AgNova

AgNova has announced a new distribution agreement with BASF Australia for the popular strobilurin fungicide Stroby WG.

Apple thinning: a returning challenge!

Many of today’s most grown apple varieties need fruit thinning to obtain the right fruit bearing, desired fruit size, and to avoid biennial bearing.

Why peach stones split and what causes gum?

Peaches, like all stone fruit, grow in three stages. Understanding this can help you to understand the factors contributing to stone split and gum to exude from peaches, Bas van den Ende writes.