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Grochem gets organic tick
Organic growers can rely on products from Grochem Australia to help manage weeds and pests in their orchards.
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Technology in agriculture
ABC takes your spray diary online
The old adage of “it’s not broke, don’t fix it” is out-of-date in today’s landscape where every opportunity for automation and increased efficiency should be explored.
Technology in agriculture
Fencing Clip a 'No brainer!'
Davo’s Fencing Clip continues to make inroads in the trellised fruit growing sector with major orchards across four states taking up the simple technology to hold their trellis wires easily and securely.
Business solutions & labour
Bayer podcast series popular
Agriculture is a busy place at the best of times, so cutting through the noise to deliver concise, relevant information is a challenge.
Macadamias
Rat solution in macadamias
Controlling rats in macadamia orchards used to be very tricky. Infestations are generally quite hard to detect until they have already caused significant damage and loss.
Pome fruit
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Stone Fruit
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Insect & mite control
Angler trap targets Carpophilus beetle
Grochem offers a new trapping system for Carpophilus beetle – a major pest in ripening stone and pome fruit.
Cherries
Australia’s cherry sector in growth phase
Australia’s cherry sector is in an expansion phase, with growing consumer appetite for the fruit locally and in export markets.
Insect & mite control
Sivanto prime tough on pests but not predators
Especially in wet seasons like 2022, horticultural pest and disease pressure in the Wide Bay area of Queensland can be very high.
Insect & mite control
Getting it ‘done’ should mean getting it ‘right’
In tree, vines and trellised vegetables crops, product application rates based on ground area, expressed as rate of product per hectare, were once considered satisfactory but can easily result in the grower either underdosing or overdosing crops with product.
Pome fruit
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Insect & mite control
Apple industry welcomes miticide with new MOA
After increased mite pressure in apple orchards in recent seasons and more than a decade since a new mode of action miticide has been introduced, a new product hitting the shelves always was going to be a valuable addition for growers’ control programs.
Fertilisers & nutrition
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.
Fertilisers & nutrition
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.
General
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.
Fertilisers & nutrition
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.
Insect & mite control
IPM, insects and mites… the short version
Plants grow. Insects see them as desirable food. Then they become pests.
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