Know your pest
Timing is everything when controlling tree pests!
This issue of Tree Crop is the last one before flowers appear on your tree crop, Ion Staunton writes.
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Fruit Fly
Weather events impact Goulburn Murray Valley
Orchardists in Victoria’s Goulburn Murray Valley region have grappled with the devasting impacts of several extreme weather events throughout the growing season, as climatic conditions prove ideal for Queensland fruit fly.
Mangoes
Heat unit targets for Australian mango cultivars
Based on a multi-region, cultivar and season, an improved method of calculating heat units (HU) or Growing Degree Days is proposed. This method includes a penalty for high temperatures above 32°C as well as low temperatures below 12°C.
Mangoes
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Technology in agriculture
New Mango MRL mobile app
The Australian Mango Industry Association (AMIA) has released its mobile phone app to help growers manage chemical application and facilitate trade.
Mangoes
Record yield for mango high-density planting trial
Mango production in the Mareeba–Dimbulah district generally experienced a higher-yielding season in 2022–2023.
Macadamias
Managing pests and diseases: practical tips during a challenging season
The Australian macadamia industry is currently navigating a challenging chapter. While growers have rebounded from multiple natural disasters in recent years to deliver an abundant, quality crop, this is being accompanied by rising costs and the softest farm gate prices in more than a decade.
Macadamias
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Nuts
Australian Macadamia Festival in India
An Australian Macadamia Festival will take place in India later this year thanks to a new Queensland Government grant designed to grow international exports of outstanding Queensland produce.
Almonds
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Nuts
Hull rot a key target for almond orchards
Hull rot has largely become the number one disease target in almonds and it’s likely to continue following wet conditions in recent seasons.
Almonds
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Nuts
Still lot to learn with almond tree nutrition
After a difficult season for almond production and quality, Anthony Wachtel with the Almond Board of Australia (ABA) says when it comes to tree nutrition, “there is still a lot to learn about what we don’t know yet’’.
Nuts
Yield mapper developed for almonds
There are many factors that need to be right for optimum almond yield. Growers spend all year trying to get these right. Yield mapping is a way to see how that effort turned into producing a high yielding crop.
Branching out
New Hybrid Fertilisers sales manager
Riaan Breedt, an agronomist with more than 25 years’ experience both in farming and as an advisor, has been appointed regional sales manager at Hybrid Fertilisers.
News
Horticulture industry’s new leader
The National Farmers’ Federation (NFF) Horticulture Council has announced Jolyon Burnett as its new chairperson.
Tree crop people
2023 APAL Awards for Excellence winners
The 2023 APAL Awards for Excellence celebrated the exceptional contribution made by industry leaders, growers, marketers, exporters and researchers.
Avocado
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News
Avo Connections: avocado Industry comes together
On Monday 5 June over 150 industry representatives came together to hear the latest avocado developments related to the domestic market, export markets, food service and international marketing of Australian avocados.
General
Resetting the direction of Summerfruit Australia
This national workshop in Moama, NSW on 16 May 2023 was the first of its kind since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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